The Center for Educational Technologies^® at Wheeling Jesuit University has received funding from NASA Global Climate Change Education to update, enhance, and expand the existing Exploring the Environment problem-based learning modules. These new modules in their beta version are now available. Improvements include teacher and student use of NASA satellite images and remote sensing data to investigate the five indicators of global climate change—sea level, ice mass, global temperature, ozone, and atmospheric carbon dioxide. The updated Exploring the Environment global climate change modules provide an authentic, problem-based context for students to explore climate science issues.

NASA's support for global climate change education and research is motivated by the National Research Council report Earth Science and Applications from Space: National Imperatives for the Next Decade and Beyond, which calls for response to global climate changes as one of the greatest and most important intellectual challenges facing humanity. The study specifies that both the acquisition of new knowledge about the Earth system and the use of Earth observation data are equally important in meeting the complex challenges of global change.

Teachers who use the existing Exploring the Environment modules are invited to help us review and pilot test the new global climate change modules. Please contact ete@cet.edu for more information. Connect with the Exploring the Environment Collaborative on NASATalk for project updates and related educator opportunities.
 

For questions, comments, or more information concerning Exploring the Environment, please contact ete@cet.edu.

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