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FREE Small Class: Teaching Climate Change Book Study

 


Announcing a book study for WA State Teachers: Teaching Climate Change by Mark Windschitl!

Bookstudy for Mark Windschitl’s Teaching Climate Change

Northwest ESD regional science teachers have learned so much from Ambitious Science Teaching experts Mark Windschitl, Jessica Thomsen, and Melissa Braaten. In his latest book, Mark Windschitl explores directing students’ powerful sense-making abilities toward a future of increasing global temperatures climate responses.  

Joining this 4-part book study will provide Ambitious Science Teaching familiar teachers with a community of people with whom to engage in your own sense-making and to consider connections to practice.  

The first 15 people to register will have their registration fee waved, will receive a complimentary copy of the book, and will receive 10 STEM clock hours paid for by NWESD’s ClimeTime project.

Folks registering after the first 15 will have a registration fee of $32, will need to provide their own copy of the book [Amazon; Barnes&Noble; Bookshop.org], and will be able to purchase 10 STEM clock hours for $35.

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