Climate change education is getting the spotlight during a two-day workshop in Wilmington.
The University of Delaware’s Climate Change Science and Policy Hub is trying to build a climate education community in the Mid-Atlantic region, and include different perspectives on climate change.
Storytelling, faith, and different traditions are perspectives that can be valuable in teaching climate change.
And UD’s Climate Change Science and Policy Hub director A.R. Siders recommends people avoid taking a negative approach regarding the subject.
"We're trying to think about ways we can increase our climate change education without causing people to become anxious or falling to doomism or think of it as all doom and gloom because studying any major change and threat there is some doom and gloom, but there's also a lot of opportunity and a lot of hope and a lot of positivity that can come out of it if you focus on action if you focus on what people can do and the possible solutions there," said Siders.
Siders notes that climate change is becoming a bigger part of the curriculum in schools, and it can be taught in different subjects including science, English, business, agriculture, video game design, and health.
The UD Hub’s two-day workshop on strategies to build stronger climate education in the region is October 13th and 14th at the Sheraton in Wilmington.
Siders hopes it will help build a climate education community in the Mid-Atlantic region.
"Every single aspect of education can think about climate change. And so one of the things that we're really interested in is how do you take climate change and both teach the natural science of how climate change happens, then also get students to think about what that means or how climate change is going to affect them, and what they can do to deal with those issues," said Siders.
The first day will focus on strategies and resources while the second day will workshop applied projects.
For more on Climate Change Science and Policy Hub's two-day workshop on Oct. 13 and Oct. 14 on strategies to build climate education, visit their site.
