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FREE Climate Virtual Workshop for HS teachers in September from UW!

2020 UW's PCC Climate Change Biology Teacher-Scientist Workshop (Sept. 21, 23, and 25 3:30-5:30pm Pacific Time)

Free, including 6 STEM clock hours. A virtual (zoom) interactive workshop.

We will be preparing participants to incorporate the  lessons and visualizations from the Trench-Ed resource into their teaching, including:

  • Metabolic Impacts of Climate Change: Use historic climate data and the temperature dependence of metabolism to compare climate impacts between temperate and tropical regions.  
  • Energy Budgets: Use weather and terrain data to explore how an energy budget is constructed and use it to estimate an organism's body temperature.
  • Robomussels: Use data from biomimetic temperature sensors to explore how organisms experience climate.
  • Butterfly Museum Specimens: Use data from museum specimens to explore how temperature influences morphology and phenology.
  • Wildflower Phenology: Use historical and resurvey data to explore how temperature influences phenology. 
  • RMBL Phenology: Use climate and phenological data from Rock Mountain Biological Laboratory to explore migration and overwintering species in a high-elevation ecosystem.
  • Grasshopper Resurvey: Use historical and resurvey data to explore how temperature influences developmental rates and phenology. 
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