Questions? Email us at: k12team@presidio.edu

Questions? Email us at: k12team@presidio.edu

This course provides K-12 teachers with an opportunity to explore the driving forces behind extreme weather events, specifically those occurring where they live. While not all extreme weather events are correlated to climate change, climate change is playing an increasingly primary role. 

During this Teaching Extreme Weather course, teachers will create a lesson or series of lessons focused on extreme weather that align to the Next Generation Science Standards as well as to State Standards for their grade level. The course prepares teachers to help their students understand the causes behind disruptive extreme weather events as well as what can be done to mitigate for them. 

Facilitated by our lead online course designer and instructional coach, it provides 15 Professional Development Hours or 1.5 Continuing Education Units. 

By the end of this course participants will be able to:

1. Explain the fundamentals of extreme weather 
2. Analyze how climate change and extreme weather events are related 
3. Explore regional extreme weather events in the US
4. Design a lesson or series of lessons that include extreme weather events

This course provides K-12 teachers with an opportunity to explore the driving forces behind extreme weather events, specifically those occurring where they live. While not all extreme weather events are correlated to climate change, climate change is playing an increasingly primary role. 

During this Teaching Extreme Weather course, teachers will create a lesson or series of lessons focused on extreme weather that align to the Next Generation Science Standards as well as to State Standards for their grade level. The course prepares teachers to help their students understand the causes behind disruptive extreme weather events as well as what can be done to mitigate for them. 

Facilitated by our lead online course designer and instructional coach, it provides 1 Graduate Credit.

By the end of this course, participants will be able to:

1. Explain the fundamentals of extreme weather 
2. Analyze how climate change and extreme weather events are related 
3. Explore regional extreme weather events in the US
4. Design a lesson or series of lessons that include extreme weather events

Questions? Email us at: k12team@presidio.edu

Teaching Climate Change Essentials is a nine-week program designed to engage and equip elementary, middle, and high school teachers with the tools needed to successfully incorporate climate change into their classrooms, regardless of grade level, subject, or state standards. This empowering, facilitated, online program addresses the questions and challenges around teaching climate change. Facilitated by instructional leaders and subject matter experts, it provides 3 Graduate Credits.

Questions? Email us at: k12team@presidio.edu

By the end of this course, participants will be able to:

1. Explain the fundamentals of climate science literacy
2. Analyze how climate change impacts the planet and people, especially people in marginalized communities
3. Design entry points to include these fundamentals in a variety of existing K-12 curricula
4. Discover and adapt real-world curricula and resources for use in classrooms and
5. Compare and contrast climate change solutions that teachers and students might participate in personally, locally, and globally.

This course provides K-12 teachers with an opportunity to explore the driving forces behind extreme weather events, specifically those occurring where they live. While not all extreme weather events are correlated to climate change, climate change is playing an increasingly primary role. 

During this Teaching Extreme Weather course, teachers will create a lesson or series of lessons focused on extreme weather that align to the Next Generation Science Standards as well as to State Standards for their grade level. The course prepares teachers to help their students understand the causes behind disruptive extreme weather events as well as what can be done to mitigate for them. 

Facilitated by our lead online course designer and instructional coach, it provides 15 Professional Development Hours or 1.5 Continuing Education Units. 

This course provides K-12 teachers with an opportunity to explore the driving forces behind extreme weather events, specifically those occurring where they live. While not all extreme weather events are correlated to climate change, climate change is playing an increasingly primary role. 

During this Teaching Extreme Weather course, teachers will create a lesson or series of lessons focused on extreme weather that align to the Next Generation Science Standards as well as to State Standards for their grade level. The course prepares teachers to help their students understand the causes behind disruptive extreme weather events as well as what can be done to mitigate for them. 

Facilitated by our lead online course designer and instructional coach, it provides 1 Graduate Credit.

Teaching Climate Change Essentials is a nine-week program designed to engage and equip elementary, middle, and high school teachers with the tools needed to successfully incorporate climate change into their classrooms, regardless of grade level, subject, or state standards. This empowering, facilitated, online program addresses the questions and challenges around teaching climate change. Facilitated by instructional leaders and subject matter experts, it provides 45 Professional Development Hours or 4.5 Continuing Education Units.

Questions? Email us at: k12team@presidio.edu

Teaching Climate Change Essentials is a nine-week program designed to engage and equip elementary, middle, and high school teachers with the tools needed to successfully incorporate climate change into their classrooms, regardless of grade level, subject, or state standards. This empowering, facilitated, online program addresses the questions and challenges around teaching climate change. Facilitated by instructional leaders and subject matter experts, it provides 3 Graduate Credits.

Questions? Email us at: k12team@presidio.edu

Teaching Climate Change Essentials is a nine-week program designed to engage and equip elementary, middle, and high school teachers with the tools needed to successfully incorporate climate change into their classrooms, regardless of grade level, subject, or state standards. This empowering, facilitated, online program addresses the questions and challenges around teaching climate change. Facilitated by instructional leaders and subject matter experts, it provides 45 Professional Development Hours or 4.5 Continuing Education Units.

Questions? Email us at: k12team@presidio.edu

Teaching Climate Change Essentials is a nine-week program designed to engage and equip elementary, middle, and high school teachers with the tools needed to successfully incorporate climate change into their classrooms, regardless of grade level, subject, or state standards. This empowering, facilitated, online program addresses the questions and challenges around teaching climate change. Facilitated by instructional leaders and subject matter experts, it provides 45 Professional Development Hours or 4.5 Continuing Education Units.

Questions? Email us at: k12team@presidio.edu