The NC Climate Education Network One Year Later: Science, education, art, and community Story Date: 1/26/2022
Source: NC CLIMATE OFFICE, 1/25/22
One year ago we launched the NC Climate Education
Network (NCCEN) which aims to connect professionals in the
state interested in tackling climate education. From the beginning, NCCEN has
sought to be a welcoming space for anyone who is participating in climate education — be they K-12 teachers, environmental educators, or climate scientists performing the occasional outreach event — to learn, ask questions, and share ideas and best practices.
Co-led by the NC State Climate Office and NC Department of Environmental Quality’s Division of Water Resources and Division of Air Quality, NCCEN has spent the past 12 months pursuing its goal through a series of regular Virtual Open Houses, email communications, and climate art contests for students.
Each Open House seeks to create dialogue across and between attendees and invited panelists, who are content experts about the current month’s topic, through facilitated discussions. To date, NCCEN has explored research based best practices for climate change communication, the state of climate change in North Carolina, how IPCC assessment reports are made, and the role of hurricanes on coastal and inland water ecosystems.
By
inviting both educators and experts to join these conversations, NCCEN aims to
reduce barriers to obtaining climate science and climate education information
while also building relationships among participants. Following each Open
House, the recording as well as relevant materials and resources are distributed
to attendees and posted to the NCCEN website.
