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As the environmental, economic, and political consequences of climate change are felt in Alaska, the Arctic, and throughout the world, we have much to learn from both the traditional knowledge of Native peoples and ongoing scientific research. These two methods of observing nature and solving the challenges of survival can provide complementary perspectives on these issues. This collection looks at Alaska's unique geology and the impact of development and climate change using both of these tools, and features Alaska Native scientists who are working toward solutions.

I want my students to be sceptics. I believe that in the present age scepticism is more important than ever. Easy access to information, ease of publishing, scams and confidence tricksters combine to create a climate where blind trust is dangerous for our security, our finances and our knowledge bases. For students of all ages a healthy dose of scepticism is much needed not just so they may reveal falsehoods but to allow them to discover new truths.

 The role of assessment has always played its part but it is a role that is changing in the present global climate and understanding this shift is important for educators.

game to teach about climate change and global warming for high schoolers. Multi user game.

selected USGS educational resources that may be useful to educators in primary school grades: amphibians, atlasses, maps and map tools, satellite images, land use history, geomagnetism, volcanoes, earthquakes, landslides, climate change, water, floods, ecosystems

The league allows students to cast votes, individually, in which they choose between two competing people, ideas or things. In a discussion on climate change, for example, they could vote for which they thought was the bigger cause of global warming: aeroplane emissions or volcanic activity - discuss! Each student chooses repeatedly from random pairs. By repeatedly casting votes, the students create a league, ranked in order of the most powerful, important, popular or influential. The results are often unexpected - students are surprised to see how their peers voted - and a good starting point for discussion. Why does this person have more power than another person? What makes this pop star more influential than that politician? How is this power used?

This website is a guide to books, films, posters and web resources which support global, intercultural and environmental understanding for all age groups and subjects. From climate change to poverty, water to fair trade, you can find a huge range of teaching resources and background material.

We live in a time of chaos, complexity and contradiction. (Sardar, 2010 [1]) Where rapid changes and transformations through technology, politics, globalisation and the climate, conspire against normality (Friedman, 2016 [2]) These times demand a fresh approach to education, one that provides learners with the thinking dispositions they need to turn challenges into opportunities, to connect their learning to their passions and emerge from their years of formal education as self-navigating life-long learners. 

We are living in interesting, frightening and rapidly changing times. Where rapid changes and transformations through technology, politics, globalisation and the climate, conspire against normality. These times demand a fresh approach to education, one that provides learners with the thinking dispositions they need to turn challenges into opportunities.  "All that was 'normal' has now evaporated; we have entered postnormal times, the in-between period where old orthodoxies are dying, new ones have not yet emerged, and nothing really makes sense." But what thinking might guide us through this time of volatility, uncertainty, complexity and ambiguity?

great materials about sustainability and development

And interactive simulation to model the affects of different actions toward a sustainable environment, allowing you to vary the enerty supply, growth, and emissions

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Free Green nature PPT template is useful in making a presentation on environmentalism and climate change. A magnified leaf is shown in the title slide, which makes it relevant for presentations related to nature and its beauty. Free PPT Slides regarding Mother Earth are available on PPT template.

This Web site contains selected USGS educational resources that may be useful to educators in secondary school grades: ecosystems, biology, geography, maps and mapping tools, vocanoes and earthquakes, land use,

Download Tangerines PowerPoint slides in .pptx format for PowerPoint and explain the nutritional benefits of growing Tangerines. Young kids in your class should know how to plant trees and how can you grow one. Highlight the names of States and Counties where Tangerines are grown, as the climate suits them. Grow citrus trees in your backyard through free Fresh Lemon PPT slides and Agriculture PowerPoint theme.

The bushfire crisis that is currently impacting Australia is beyond devastating. The scale of these fires defies the imagination. For so long now we have lived with skies laden with smoke as a constant and inescapable reminder that this is not an ordinary summer. This is weather and drought at its most extreme. Our only salvation will be rain but this is not the season for that and the long term forecasts are not promising. Our young people, in particular, will be affected and will need special care in the weeks and months to come. What might this mean for schools and for student agency?