Teaching Urban High School Students Global Climate Change Information and Graph Interpretation Skills Using Evidence from the Scientific Literature

2009 ◽  
Vol 57 (5) ◽  
pp. 335-347 ◽  
Author(s):  
Audrey C. Rule ◽  
Mary A. Meyer
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
High School ◽  
High School Students ◽  
Global Climate Change ◽  
Scientific Literature ◽  
Global Climate ◽  
Urban High School ◽  
School Students ◽  
Graph Interpretation ◽  
Climate Change Information

Learning Progressions & Climate Change

2015 ◽  
Vol 77 (4) ◽  
pp. 232-238 ◽  
Author(s):  
Joyce M. Parker ◽  
Elizabeth X. de los Santos ◽  
Charles W. Anderson
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
High School Students ◽  
Global Climate Change ◽  
Energy Use ◽  
Global Climate ◽  
Learning Progression ◽  
Science Standards ◽  
School Students ◽  
Informed Citizenry ◽  
Level Of Understanding

Our society is currently having serious debates about sources of energy and global climate change. But do students (and the public) have the requisite knowledge to engage these issues as informed citizenry? The learning-progression research summarized here indicates that only 10% of high school students typically have a level of understanding commensurate with that called for in the Next Generation Science Standards. The learning-progression research shows how most students fall short of being able to trace matter and energy through carbon-transforming processes such as photosynthesis, respiration, and combustion that are at the center of analyses of energy use and global climate change. We discuss the more typical types of understanding that students develop and their implications for teaching.

scholarly journals The Impacts of a Climate Change SSI-STEAM Program on Junior High School Students’ Climate Literacy

2021 ◽  
pp. 1-38
Author(s):  
Su-Yeon Choi ◽  
A-Rang Won ◽  
Hye-Eun Chu ◽  
Hyun-Jung Cha ◽  
Hyeonjeong Shin ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
High School ◽  
High School Students ◽  
Junior High School ◽  
Junior High ◽  
Junior High School Students ◽  
Literacy Program ◽  
School Students ◽  
Climate Change Education ◽  
Climate Literacy

Abstract This study aims to investigate climate literacy among junior high school students participating in an SSI-STEAM climate change education program and to examine the impacts of the program on the cultivation of climate literacy. Thirty-one eighth-grade students in Seoul, Korea, participated in this study. Data were collected using pre- and post-program surveys with a climate literacy questionnaire (CLQ), students’ background survey questions, interviews with participants, and from the artifacts produced by students during the program. Participants’ climate literacy was shown to improve substantially after attending the program, especially in the domains of perception and action. The four characteristics of climate literacy change were identified in the participants’ responses: more concrete ideas, extension of the scope of thinking, positive responsibility, and relevance recognition. The climate literacy program developed showed potential for fostering young people’s climate literacy along with their understanding of responsible national and global citizenship. The study discusses the implications of these findings and includes suggestions for future climate literacy program development and for both curricular and extra-curricular climate change education that can together nurture students’ more profound understanding of climate change.

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