Engaging Minority University STEM Education Professors in the Science of Climate Change
Elizabeth City State University has joined with the University of New Hampshire under the NASA Innovations in Climate Education (NICE) to empower faculty of education programs at Minority Serving Institutions to better engage their pre-service students in teaching and learning about global climate change through the use of NASA Earth observation sets. The project provides the faculty with approaches to understanding climate change and its impacts on terrestrial and ocean ecosystems. The faculty conducts fieldwork that emphasizes place-based pedagogy. This project is designed to impact teaching first on college campuses within science education classes. Second, as pre-service teachers transition into in-service teachers, the impact will extend to elementary and secondary schools. Funding Agency: NASA