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UC San Diego
Climate Champions
Climate Champions aims to get more teaching, learning, and action on the climate crisis in regional schools. Climate Champions was launched in the Spring of 2020 as part of a pilot project funded by the UC San Diego Social Sciences Climate Action Lab. Climate Champions leverages the university in service of K12 and community, our team brings together people from UC San Diego CREATE, Birch Aquarium at Scripps, and the Scripps Institution of Oceanography,
What we do
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Description: Annual design summits where participating teams explore local climate phenomena and learn to use the Understanding Global Change framework to support student modeling and evidence-based explanations.
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What's Included: Modeling Kits for each teacher, monthly Community of Practice meetings, researcher connections
Climate Champions Design Summits
Curriculum Resources
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Description: Curriculum resources developed in partnership with teachers and researchers at our Climate Champions Design Summits.
