Teaching Earth's Climate Using a Student Friendly

Climate Literacy through Epistemology of Scientific Modeling (CliMES)<br>

Research Questions<br>

Data Sources and Analyses<br>

The Climate Model curriculum designed around a student-friendly GMC
Data-driven, computer-based climate modeling tool developed by a NASA climate scientist
Allows non-climate scientists to explore climate<br>

RQ1<br>

Teacher Implementation “Less time listening and more time doing”
“Waiting for the ask”
“Talk to the students, rather than talk at them”
Failing “Meet the Robinsons” approach
Scientifically correct terms
Expectations
Clear and concise goals<br>

All while using the model!<br>

GSA 2021, Portland 10/13/2021 RQ2<br>

Student Outcomes Conceptual, Epistemic, and Composite
Statistically significant gains in students from classrooms of all three participate teachers
Statistically significant change in both dimensions
Francine’s students started at a higher mean score<br>

Student Outcomes Francine Alex Wayne<br>

Discussion and Conclusion All students regardless of teachers increased their assessment score
Technology, EzGCM, allow for teaching evidence-based science
Explore three teachers' “day-to-day”
Model-based teaching and learning is beneficial for developing students’ reasoning of GCC (Bhattacharya et al., 2021)
Case for innovative technologies<br>

This material is based upon work supported by the National Science Foundation under Grant No. DRL 1720838 and 1719872. Any opinions, findings, and conclusions or recommendations expressed in this material are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect the views of the NSF.<br>

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