CCEP-I: Climate Change Science and Solutions: Creating innovative education tools for Native Americans and other rural communities on the Colorado Plateau.

这种伙伴关系，由梅里亚姆-鲍威尔环境研究中心，北方亚利桑那大学，包括大学内的多个中心，包括科学教学中心;社区，文化和环境计划;地球科学和环境可持续性学院;应用土著研究;和生物科学系。 其他核心和支持伙伴包括该地区的公立学校联盟、纳瓦霍族教育司、霍皮族教育部、纳瓦霍绿色经济、学校风能和可持续经济发展倡议（科科尼诺县）。这一伙伴关系将制定和实施一个中学到高中的气候变化课程，主要服务于科罗拉多高原的美洲原住民和农村学生。该项目的变革主题是有效的气候变化教育以文化和区域相关的方式教授科学，影响和解决方案。因此，该课程将涉及区域科学，区域影响和区域解决方案，所有这些都由区域讲故事的人使用多种参与式教学模式传达。该项目将改善和发展美洲原住民教育工作者和社区领导人与NAU科学家，学习专家和从业者之间已经牢固的联系。该项目的总体目标是在第一阶段和第二阶段在整个科罗拉多高原向北方亚利桑那州的多个学区注入新的课程。 具体目标是：1）在北方亚利桑那大学建立气候变化教育中心2）创建气候变化科学和解决方案的变革性中学课程，该课程被整个科罗拉多高原的75个教室采用，3）为教师创建变革性和创新性的培训计划4）培训100名教师，部落长老和社区领袖进行气候变化教育，5）教育家长、社区领袖和学校董事会了解气候变化，使他们支持公立学校的气候变化教育。 可完成的项目包括：1）与该地区相关的现有课程材料清单，2）对该地区当前教育实践的评估，3）设计和举办10-15次教师和社区讲习班，4）制作两张DVD，5）制定和实施气候变化教育战略计划。欲了解更多信息，请访问：http://www.climate.nau.edu/

This partnership, led by the Merriam-Powell Center for Environmental Research, Northern Arizona University, includes multiple centers within the University including the Center for Science Teaching and Learning; Program in Community, Culture and Environment; School of Earth Science and Environmental Sustainability; Applied Indigenous Studies; and the Department of Biological Sciences. Other core and supporting partners include a consortium of public schools in the region, the Navajo Nation Division of Education, the Hopi Department of Education, the Navajo Green Economy, Wind in Schools, and the Sustainable Economic Development Initiative (Coconino County). This partnership will develop and implement a middle school through high school climate change curriculum serving primarily Native American and rural students on the Colorado Plateau. The transformative theme of this project is that effective climate change education teaches the science, impacts, and solutions in culturally and regionally relevant ways. The curriculum will thus involve regional science, regional impacts, and regional solutions, all conveyed by regional storytellers using multiple modes of engaged pedagogy. This project will improve and develop already strong ties between Native American educators and community leaders and NAU scientists, learning experts, and practitioners. The overarching goal of the project is to infuse a novel curriculum into multiple school districts in Northern Arizona during Phase 1, and during Phase 2 throughout the entire Colorado Plateau. The specific objectives are to: 1) Establish a Climate Change Education Center at Northern Arizona University 2) Create a transformative secondary curriculum in climate change science and solutions that is adopted by 75 classrooms across the Colorado Plateau, 3) Create transformative and innovative training programs for teachers 4) train 100 teachers, tribal Elders, and community leaders in climate change education, and 5) Educate parents, community leaders, and school boards about climate change so that they are supportive of climate change education in the public schools. Deliverables include 1) an inventory of existing curricular materials relevant to this region, 2) an assessment of current education practices in the region, 3) the design and implementation of 10-15 teacher and community workshops, 4) the production of two DVDs, and 5) the development and implementation of a climate change education strategic plan. For more information please see: http://www.climate.nau.edu/