Join the ISB team to learn about all climate-themed Systems Education Experiences (SEE) modules. ISB will provide weekly guidance as you prepare to implement one or more modules. Weaving authentic, hands-on STEM and climate science into your science course will help you teach 3D NGSS and prepare your students to take action. Learn and do the unit with students in real-time!

The purpose of this 9-hour series of workshops is to provide weekly guidance for teachers to learn about all six available Systems Education Experiences (SEE) Modules (listed below) from Institute for Systems Biology that are climate-themed. The purpose of learning about the modules is to give teachers the ability to implement the pertinent lessons, pedagogical strategies, and/or entire modules in your classroom.

This series of workshops begins with an optional 30 minute Pre-series Introduction that teachers can attend to learn about the workshop, ask questions, receive help filling out the PDenroller and gather materials to recruit your colleagues.

The first workshop is a 1.5-hour overview that will provide immediate information for using the modules. It will also guide the lesson planning for teachers to implement 1 module and/or some of the lessons and/or pedagogical strategies over the next months. Modules available to implement:  

1. Bioengineering a Sustainable World

2. Carbon’s Fate: Tracing Paths through Air, Sea and Ice

3. Ecological Networks

4. Invisible Forest: What’s in a Drop of Seawater?

5. Modeling Sustainable Food Systems: Food Security

6. Ocean Acidification: A Systems Approach to a Global Problem

Workshops 2-6, the remainder of this 9-hour series, will guide high school science teachers to further their understanding on what the 3-Dimensions of science learning looks like and prepare to implement one problem-based, project-based, and/or phenomenon-based climate science module. This series will consist of flexibly scheduled synchronous workshops. 

Workshop Dates:

• Cohort 1: Tuesdays 4:00-5:30pm, January 30, February 6, February 13, February 27, March 5, March 12, 2024. Please note the 1 week break for Midwinter Break.

• Cohort 2: Thursdays 4:00-5:30pm, March 21, March 28, April 4, April 18, April 25, May 2, 2024. Please note the 1 week break for Spring Break.

• Additional times available to join will be posted on a shared calendar and can be rescheduled for teachers to enable participation and “just in time” guidance as lessons are implemented.