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FREE ClimeTime PD from Whatcom County's "Teach for the Climate Collaborative!"













Our amazing colleagues from Nooksack Salmon Enhancement Association, Re Sources, Wild Whatcom, and Common Threads Farms have teamed together to offer these well-received classes around Climate Science!

Offering 1:

Hope and Resilience


Experience how people across Whatcom County are finding climate solutions that can inspire hope and resilience in the classroom! These field-based workshops focus on solutions that support equity and justice. Teaching for the Climate Collaborative, for its sixth year, along with community experts, will guide participants through activities that illustrate how Climate change is affecting different stakeholders and ecosystems. A post field-day workshop will gather participants back together to work on bringing lessons back to the classroom.

Three workshops to choose from!
  • 2/10 Salmon and Watersheds
  • 2/24 Circular Economies
  • 3/7 Bring it to the Classroom

See the flyer for more information and for registration information!


Offering 2:

Teaching Outside

Teach for the climate by including outdoor learning experiences in your classroom! Calling all Whatcom County elementary teachers and staff serving grades K-5 looking to integrate the outdoors into everyday lessons! Our Teaching Outside workshops are designed to provide teachers and other education staff with the basic skills and tools to implement outdoor experiential and climate- related activities on school sites, in local parks, and in urban settings.

Two workshops to choose from:
  • 3/21 4:30- 6:30 PM at Skyline Elementary School 
  • 4/25 4:30- 6:30 PM at Irene Reither Elementary 
See the flyer for more information and for registration information!

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