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The Science of Global Warming: Curriculum Units for K-12
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Seven curriculum units from teachers at Yale University's National Initiative to Strengthen Teaching in Public Schools address global warming from different perspectives and for different audiences, ranging from the elementary grades to high school environmental science and physics classes. While most units emphasize the science of global warming, one, “A Planet Worth a Thousand Words,” focuses on language skills, asking students to write about a specific research question associated with global warming. Another lesson plan looks at the advantages of biodiesel over petroleum, mostly from a scientific perspective, but with some attention to the issue's economic and geopolitical ramifications. Each unit, which has an "entry guide" summarizing what the unit provides and for whom it is intended, contains objectives, teaching strategies, sample lessons, classroom activities, and lists of resources for teachers and students. Teachers who were 2006 National Fellows at the teachers institute created the lessons. A 2009 report, To Strengthen Teaching: An Evaluation of Teachers Institute Experiences, is available as a related link. It presents the results of a study of participants in Teachers Institutes in Houston, New Haven, Philadelphia, and Pittsburgh from 2003-2008 and in National Initiative seminars at Yale from 2005-2008.
The Science of Global Warming
Educators from a variety of grades and disciplines can use the seven curriculum units on this website to explore the scientific basis of global warming and to separate fact from fiction.
Media: Web pageProgram Director: Robert J. Wyman, Ph.D.
Award Years: 1989, 1994, 1998, 2002, 2006
Summary: Yale University is a private research university in New Haven, Connecticut. Its HHMI-funded initiatives include:
- Increasing diversity in the sciences through its flagship STARS (Science, Technology and Research Scholars) Program, which has been nationally recognized for its success in fostering ethnic minority students on their way to science degrees and biomedical careers;
- Improving the quality of teacher training through programs such as the Yale-New Haven Teachers Institute, which invites teachers to participate in seminars where they create new curricula, and Yale’s Teacher Preparation Program, which trains new science teachers.
- Offering summer residential programs with classes and labs for inner-city high school students, and providing science enrichment in city schools through DEMOS, a program that encourages Yale students to volunteer in school enrichment activities, science demonstrations in the elementary and middle schools and science and math research teams in the upper grades.