Teacher Professional Development
We teach teachers. The Center for Climate Change Education at PRI efficiently reaches over 1,000 teachers nationwide each year by working with a wide variety of educators, who in turn reach thousands of students. We offer workshops, activities, videos, and assistance with curriculum development.
We will tailor workshops to help you teach about climate change past, present, and future, and about topics such as energy systems, climate change solutions, and biological responses to climate change. For information contact our Director of Teacher Programming at teacherPD@priweb.org.
The Teacher-Friendly Guideᵀᴹ to Climate Change
Enhanced and updated digital chapters of The Teacher-Friendly Guideᵀᴹ to Climate Change. This guide for teachers (and others) includes both the basics of climate change science and perspectives on teaching a subject that has become socially and politically polarized.
Teach Climate Change
Classroom activities that serve as the lab manual for The Teacher-Friendly Guideᵀᴹ to Climate Change. Teaching toolkits, many of which have accompanying videos, are searchable by topic and grade level, and include an overview, NGSS standards, materials lists and instructions, handouts, and background information.
Other Resources
Additional information and resources on topics such as:
- climate change and energy blog posts
- weather preparedness information from the National Weather Service
- bioblitz information and data
- an overview of climate change in Central New York
- information on sugar maples and climate change
- videos
- Tracking Climate in Your Backyard curriculum
- teaching about the IPCC
- U.N. COP meetings
- Critical Zone science
- environmental data collected by PRI at our public venues
