1. A live one day state-wide conferrence for high school and college students focused on both cilmate science and actions. Getting together in person (like the Aspen conference) can be powerfully motivating as well as educational. In addition to presentations, workshops and general networking opportunities, you could have ‘exhibitors” providing opportunities to get involved in specific actions. These exhibitors might be organizations. they also might be individuals, including studetnts with ideas and the willingness to recruit participants.
2. A one week (or less) summer workshops for middle and high school science teachers on climate science. Not focusing on pedogogy, but on understanding deeply the science and the critical nature of the problem. High quality climate science education materials along with the latest research can be reviewed and made available. A big focus on the science connected closely with the questions “How do I incorporate this new and critical sciecne content into my classroom?” ” How do I make it fit in with the other mandatory and well worn traditional stuff I always teach?” Are ther others here who I can work with to figure this out?” Teachers should take from this workshop (1) a better understanding of the science, and (2) some amount of passion about the importance of the issue. This will drive both their teaching and hopefully thier involvment beyond the classroom. To some extent eqach teacher will have a diffferent situation, different needs and different solutions, but They can figure out how to make it work in thier own classrooms, schools, etc. if they see it as important enough.
