DataStreme Earth's Climate System: Training Climate Education Resource Agents who Advance Climate Science Literacy

美国气象学会(AMS)在国家科学基金会的支持下，与纽约州立大学布罗克波特学院合作，正在开发训练有素的K-12教师，称为气候教育资源代理人(CERA)，他们负责提高公众的气候科学素养，并影响当地学校和地区的课程改革。共有40个CERA是从美国5个特别容易受到气候变化影响的地区中挑选出来的，这些地区的少数民族人口较多。这些地区包括纽约市/长岛、佛罗里达州南部、新墨西哥州、亚利桑那州和阿拉斯加州。CERA通过为期一学期的AMS DataStreme地球气候系统课程进行培训，完成课程后将获得3个研究生学分。在整个课程中，CERA以两人为一组，为当地气候教育外展制定正式的“行动计划”，然后在第二年执行。为了产生最大的社区影响，CERA与区域气候中心和教育项目建立了关系。这5个地区中的每个地区都选出各自的CERA团队，在2012年1月的AMS年会上代表各自地区的课程和公众气候科学素养影响以及地方伙伴关系。通过拟议项目培训的40名CERA将在初步培训的两年内影响到至少400名额外的教育工作者和14,000名学生。

The American Meteorological Society (AMS), with support from NSF and in partnership with the State University of New York's College at Brockport, is developing highly trained K-12 teachers, known as Climate Education Resource Agents (CERAs), who are responsible for advancing public climate science literacy and affecting curriculum change within their local schools and districts. A total of 40 CERAs are selected from 5 regions of the United States that are especially vulnerable to climate change impacts and have high minority populations. These regions include New York City/Long Island, south Florida, New Mexico, Arizona, and Alaska. CERAs are trained through the semester-long AMS DataStreme Earth's Climate System course and receive 3 graduate credits for course completion. Throughout the course, CERAs work in teams of two to develop a formal "Plan of Action" for local climate education outreach, which they then execute the following year. In order to have maximum community impact, CERAs foster relationships with regional climate centers and education programs. Each of the 5 regions select one of their CERA teams to represent their region's curriculum and public climate science literacy impacts and local partnerships at the January 2012 AMS Annual Meeting. The 40 CERAs trained through the proposed project will impact a minimum of 400 additional educators and 14,000 students within two years of their initial training.