Explore how MTSS supports climate change education for K\u201312 learners through tiered instruction, targeted supports, and inclusive strategies that build climate literacy and problem-solving skills.<\/p>\n
Register Here!<\/a><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div><\/div> Many educators want to turn climate awareness into action with a climate resiliency project at their site. Learn soup to nuts how to become a green infrastructure(GI) changemaker by understanding the steps to success. From meaningfully involving your students, to successfully surveying your site and effectively planning your rain garden or other climate resiliency project, we will cover site selection, plant choice, anatomy of a rain garden, budgeting and strategies for success. FULL DAY<\/p>\n Register Here!<\/a><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div><\/div> Transform a climate lesson into a community-connected experience. In this hands-on workshop, educators will learn to bridge NJSLS standards with local “blue and green” community mapping to create high-impact, cross-disciplinary lessons. We provide the texts, resources, and planning tools\u2014you provide the vision. Whether you\u2019re starting from scratch or bringing an existing project to life, you\u2019ll leave with a ready-to-implement curriculum and a network of collaborative support.<\/p>\n Register Here!<\/a><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div><\/div> Educators gain strategies to identify misinformation, evaluate sources, and teach evidence-based climate science through an outdoor “Quest for the Truth”, investigating news claims, tracing sources, and practicing classroom-ready critical-thinking frameworks.<\/p>\n Register Here!<\/a><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div><\/div> This workshop looks at how offshore wind farms, industrial shipping, and whales are coming into contact along the Jersey Shore. Educators will have the opportunity to develop classroom materials around this topic and to think more broadly about how offshore development projects of any kind are creating precarious conditions for right and humpback whales. Educators will develop lesson plans and projects to engage students in project-based learning focusing on sustainability and place-based climate action.<\/p>\n Register Here!<\/a><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div><\/div> Educators learn hands-on biodiversity measurements using iNaturalist and Biodiversity Heritage Library, combining community observations and historical records to teach climate-driven ecosystem change, data literacy, and authentic research aligned with climate science standards.<\/p>\n Register Here!<\/a><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div><\/div> Learn about the mechanisms of Climate Change, the difference between climate and weather, and predicted impacts on NJ’s landscapes and lands. Using the Passaic Watershed as our case study, we\u2019ll focus on data and stories from our urban, underserved and rural communities. Hands-on demos and activities will focus on helping your students build solutions-based, resilient thinking. Workshop includes in-class and field activities to build understanding about teaching climate change across subject areas. Educators leave with activities to turnkey lessons back to any classroom setting to focus in their own local communities.<\/p>\n Register Here!<\/a><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div><\/div> Learn to design community-connected climate lessons aligned to NJSLS, using cross-disciplinary planning and local blue\/green community mapping. This hands-on session provides texts, resources, and planning tools; educators may bring climate projects for collaborative curriculum development during the interactive workshop session.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div><\/div> Gr5-HS. Forests are essential indicators of climate and environmental health. Assess forest health with hands-on activities such as calculating carbon storage in trees and assessing soil saturation using field methods. Stream surveying highlights climate impacts occurring in local Passaic waters. Analyze field collected water quality results and learn about what the inhabitants of the stream can tell us about stream health. Use water quality and forest data to explore solutions that support both human and ecological health and encourage positive, problem solving mentalities. Activities focus on assessing the value of green and blue spaces for climate mitigation and creating resilient communities. FULL DAY<\/p>\n Register Here!<\/a><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div><\/div> Join us as we explore firsthand the impacts of climate change, built environments, past history, and environmental justice issues on Passaic River communities. Witness how flooding, CSOs, and heat island effects differentially impact the daily lives of our Passaic River communities and how changing climate will further influence these factors. Participants will engage in solutions-based thinking to imagine more just and resilient communities and activities that focus on creating climate resilient spaces. FULL DAY<\/p>\n Register Here!<\/a><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div><\/div> In this workshop, educators will learn about how the study of insects, pollination and habitat gets students excited, empathetic and aware of the natural world around them. Educators will learn practical ways to conduct scientific studies and observations of insects and beneficial wildlife and take action through garden-based practices that support pollination and habitat restoration. Through hands-on, turnkey activities, educators will gain insights on the value of biodiversity and leave ready to inspire students to participate in environmental stewardship practices and explore environmental careers, starting in their school garden.<\/p>\n Register Here!<\/a><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div><\/div> Learn to design community-connected climate lessons aligned to NJSLS, using cross-disciplinary planning and local blue\/green community mapping. This hands-on session provides texts, resources, and planning tools; educators may bring climate projects for collaborative curriculum development during the interactive workshop session.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div><\/div> Learn about the mechanisms of Climate Change, the difference between climate and weather, and predicted impacts on NJ’s landscapes and lands. Using the Passaic Watershed as our case study, we\u2019ll focus on data and stories from our urban, underserved and rural communities. Hands-on demos and activities will focus on helping your students build solutions-based, resilient thinking. Workshop includes in-class and field activities to build understanding about teaching climate change across subject areas. Educators leave with activities to turnkey lessons back to any classroom setting to focus in their own local communities.<\/p>\n Register Here!<\/a><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div><\/div> Forests are essential indicators of climate and environmental health. Assess forest health with hands-on activities such as calculating carbon storage in trees and assessing soil saturation using field methods. Stream surveying highlights climate impacts occurring in local Passaic waters. Analyze field collected water quality results and learn about what the inhabitants of the stream can tell us about stream health. Use water quality and forest data to explore solutions that support both human and ecological health and encourage positive, problem solving mentalities. Activities focus on assessing the value of green and blue spaces for climate mitigation and creating resilient communities.<\/p>\n Register Here!<\/a><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div><\/div> Join us as we explore firsthand the impacts of climate change, built environments, past history, and environmental justice issues on Passaic River communities. Witness how flooding, CSOs, and heat island effects differentially impact the daily lives of our Passaic River communities and how changing climate will further influence these factors. Participants will engage in solutions-based thinking to imagine more just and resilient communities and activities that focus on creating climate resilient spaces. FULL DAY<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div><\/div> Educators explore acoustic monitoring, learning how sound reveals climate-driven behavior changes, study wood frog or bird call phenology as ecosystem indicators, and practice hands-on, place-based methods for teaching climate science.<\/p>\n Register Here!<\/a><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div><\/div> This workshop engages teachers with real-world climate challenges, collaborating with Rutgers students to analyze geography and infrastructure, design climate-resilient solutions, and apply hands-on, place-based learning through outdoor activities.<\/p>\n Register Here!<\/a><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div><\/div> Sharing authentic journeys and experiences with your students allows them to understand from first hand experiences how climate change is impacting some of our natural communities in NJ. Using art and poetry to process what we see, we will experience the Passaic first hand from our fleet of kayaks. Must be able to swim and comfortable around water. We will provide all equpment to get you up close with the river.<\/p>\n Register Here!<\/a><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div><\/div> Sharing authentic journeys and experiences with your students allows them to understand from first hand experiences how climate change is impacting some of our natural communities in NJ. Using art and poetry to process what we see, we will experience the Passaic first hand from our fleet of kayaks. Must be able to swim and comfortable around water. We will provide all equpment to get you up close with the river.<\/p>\n Register Here!<\/a><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div><\/div> Flood models are useful tools for visualizing how water moves through the landscape and impacts communities. Build your own flood model, learning myriad ways to use this tool in your classroom and across subjects. Explore how climate change impacts how water moves, impacting our communities. Activities focus on environmental justice impacts, and potential solutions to mitigate climate change’s impacts in our watershed. Our activities will all specifically focus on addressing Climate anxiety, where research show solutions based learning, focusing on building equitable and resilient communities and learning from successfully implemented projects can help offset anxiety. We\u2019ll explore ways to address ecoanxiety, explore credible climate change solutions,and the work of Climate Changemakers- both locally and globally. Leave with hopeful and proactive ideas about the future.<\/p>\n Register Here!<\/a><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div><\/div> Flood models are useful tools for visualizing how water moves through the landscape and impacts communities. Build your own flood model, learning myriad ways to use this tool in your classroom and across subjects. Explore how climate change impacts how water moves, impacting our communities. Activities focus on environmental justice impacts, and potential solutions to mitigate climate change’s impacts in our watershed. Our activities will all specifically focus on addressing Climate anxiety, where research show solutions based learning, focusing on building equitable and resilient communities and learning from successfully implemented projects can help offset anxiety. We\u2019ll explore ways to address ecoanxiety, explore credible climate change solutions,and the work of Climate Changemakers- both locally and globally. Leave with hopeful and proactive ideas about the future.<\/p>\n Register Here!<\/a><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div><\/div>