Exploring an Inquiry Based Approach to Climate Literacy​​ and Sustainability

 In this workshop, educators will have a chance to explore resources and methods that allow them to infuse environmental sustainability and climate literacy across their existing curriculum using an inquiry-based approach rooted in project-based learning. We will start by grounding in a sustainability education framework, a more theoretical perspective with which to view their materials and pedagogy. Teachers will then take  an inquiry-based approach to building their students' background knowledge around a topic they find fascinating that relates to environmental sustainability. Finally, teachers will brainstorm ways they might take these resources and methods and make a plan to turn them into project-based learning experiences. We'll also look at some examples from other schools and classrooms. Teachers will understand how the skills and content of their discipline can be amplified and connected to climate change and sustainability in ways that help foster systems thinking, note-taking, research, reading, writing, listening skills, and collaboration.