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Climate Lessons Update – February 2020
Letter to Climate Change Educators
We are excited to introduce our new Climate Change Education Mana...
Teach Climate
Climate Lessons Update – January 2020
Letter to Climate Change Educators
Happy New Year!
We are starting this year with imagination: envi...
Teach Climate
Climate Lessons Update – December 2019
Letter to Climate Change Educators
The 25th annual international UN climate negotiations, also known...
Teach Climate
Climate Lessons Update – November 2019
Letter to Climate Change Educators
We hope you are settling into a routine with your students, schoo...
Teach Climate
Climate Lessons Update – October 2019
Letter to Climate Change Educators
With a complex issue like climate change, it can feel difficult t...
Teach Climate
Climate Lessons Update – September 2019
Letter to Climate Change Educators
It’s back to school time! And a new school year means new relatio...
Teach Climate
Climate Lessons Update – June 2019
Letter to Climate Change Educators
We hope you had a great school year and are looking forward to yo...
Teach Climate
Climate Lessons Update - May 2019
Letter to Climate Change Educators
Happy May!
We know things may be winding down in your classrooms...
Teach Climate
Climate Lessons Update - April 2019
Letter to Climate Change Educators
We have ANOTHER new curriculum resource for you!
Happy Spring! Th...
Teach Climate
Climate Lessons Update - March 2019
Letter to Climate Change Educators
CHECK OUT OUR NEW CURRICULUM!
We are thrilled to release a new cl...
Teach Climate
Climate Lessons Update - February 2019
Letter to Climate Change Educators
Climate change is an interdisciplinary issue. We know climate cha...
Teach Climate
Climate Lessons Update - January 2019
Letter to Climate Change Educators
Happy New Year! We hope you are rested and ready to take on 2019....
Teach Climate
Climate Lessons Update - December 2018
Letter to Climate Change Educators
The United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP24) starts today...
Teach Climate
Climate Lessons Update - November 2018
Letter to Climate Change Educators
We’re excited to announce that our 14th annual Summer Institute f...
Teach Climate
Climate Lessons Update - October 2018
Letter to Climate Change Educators
Across the world we are seeing more and more extreme weather; fro...
Teach Climate
Climate Lessons Update - September 2018
Letter to Climate Change Educators
The school year is officially upon us, which means you’re plannin...
Teach Climate
Climate Lessons Update - August 2018
Letter to Climate Change Educators
With the school year upon us, we are super excited to launch #Tea...
Teach Climate
Climate Lessons Update - June 2018
Letter to Climate Change Educators
The lockers are cleaned out. The grades are in. The campus is qui...
Teach Climate
Climate Lessons Update - May 2018
Letter to Climate Change Educators
Youth are powerful, and youth are brave. As teachers, you see thi...
Teach Climate
Climate Lessons Update - April 2018
Letter to Climate Change Educators
In an era when climate change is forcing us to redefine how we li...
Teach Climate
It’s bigger than green jobs; we’re teaching the future
Teachers involved: Debbie Nelson, Kimberlee Adams (Northeast Middle School)
The Minneapolis Public ...
Climate Voices
Climate Lessons Update - February 2018
Letter to Climate Change Educators
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Teach Climate
Climate Lessons Update – January 2018
Letter to Climate Change Educators
Happy new year! Enjoy this month’s CLU with a list of our most po...
Teach Climate
Climate Lessons Update - December 2017
Letter to Climate Change Educators
As we come to the end of 2017, it is a fine time to reflect bac...
Teach Climate
Climate Lessons Update - November 2017
Letter to Climate Change Educators
Our COP23 delegates are headed to Bonn, Germany this week to obse...
Teach Climate
Climate Lessons Update - October 2017
Letter to Climate Change Educators
Next month is the 23rd Conference of the Parties (COP23); when ...
Teach Climate
Climate Lessons Update - August 2017
Letter to Climate Change Educators
Summer is a time for so many of us to get rejuvenated. We hope s...
Teach Climate
Climate Education in Action: Summer Institute 2017
Last week, we wrapped up our 12th annual Summer Institute for Climate Change Education at the Univer...
Teach Climate
Climate Lessons Update - June 2017
Letter to Climate Change Educators
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Teach Climate
Climate Lessons Update - May 2017
Letter to Climate Change Educators
#teachclimate
This was our mantra for the People’s Climate March ...
Teach Climate
Climate Lessons Update - March 2017
Letter to Climate Change Educators
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Teach Climate
Climate Lessons Update - February 2017
Letter to Climate Change Educators
In this month’s CLU we’re sharing the LOVE!
Links to resources: ...
Teach Climate
Climate Lessons Update - January 2017
Letter to Climate Change Educators
We hope you enjoy looking back at the top ten most popular storie...
Teach Climate
Climate Lessons Update - December 2016
Letter to Climate Change Educators
Lately, our education program staff have been thinking about how...
Teach Climate
Your Window Into Marrakech: We Will Move Ahead
[caption id="attachment_17811" align="aligncenter" width="770"] On Friday, COP22 concluded, and the ...
Climate Voices
COP 22: Looking Back and Forging Ahead
This year’s round of UN climate negotiations have officially come to a close, as six hours of overti...
Climate Voices
Your Window Into Marrakech: The Final Week of Negotiations
[caption id="attachment_17734" align="alignright" width="350"] Craig, Siiri, Isabel, Johanna and SES...
Climate Voices
Your Window Into Marrakech: Young and Future Generations Day
[caption id="attachment_17658" align="aligncenter" width="582"] On Young and Future Generations Day,...
Climate Voices
Your Window Into Marrakech: COP22 Begins!
Siiri and Johanna were the first of our delegation to arrive!
Siiri and Johanna were on the ground...
Climate Voices
Climate Lessons Update - November 2016
Letter to Climate Change Educators
It’s hard to believe that just over a year ago we were preparin...
Teach Climate
Your Window Into Marrakech: Looking Ahead to COP22
Our intergenerational delegation shares what they’re looking forward to at COP22, and the significan...
Climate Voices
Climate Lessons Update - October 2016
Letter to Climate Change Educators
We hope you are settling into the new school year and enjoying fa...
Teach Climate
Climate Lessons Update - September 2016
Letter to Climate Change Educators
Welcome back to the school year, educators! We are so excited to ...
Teach Climate
Climate Lessons Update - July 2016 (Special Summer Institute Edition)
Letter to Climate Change Educators
Before we take a month off for some summer vacationing, we wanted...
Teach Climate
Climate Lessons Update - June 2016
Letter to Climate Change Educators
When faced with the challenge of sharing the latest climate chang...
Teach Climate
Climate Lessons Update - May 2016
Letter to Climate Change Educators
December 12, 2015 has been described as historic and the day we t...
Teach Climate
Climate Lessons Update - April 2016
Letter to Climate Change Educators
It seems like you can’t turn on a news program or see a movie wit...
Teach Climate
Climate Lessons Update - February 2016
Letter to Climate Change Educators
If you’re like my family, the last few months have been filled wi...
Teach Climate
Climate Lessons Update - January 2016
Letter to Climate Change Educators
Warmer temperatures in the midwest, wetter conditions across much...
Teach Climate
Climate Lessons Update - December 2015
Letter to Climate Change Educators
Our Education Ambassadors and Climate Generation staff are in Par...
Teach Climate
Climate Lessons Update - November 2015
Letter to Climate Change Educators
Introducing….Next Generation Climate
Our new middle school climat...
Teach Climate
Climate Lessons Update - October 2015
Letter to Climate Change Educators
How can your students get involved in projects addressing climate...
Teach Climate
Climate Lessons Update - September 2015
NOAA’s Climate Education Coordinator Frank Niepold joined us for the 2015 Summer Institute for Clim...
Teach Climate
Climate Lessons Update - June 2015
Letter to Climate Change Educators
The Summer Institute for Climate Change Education is just around ...
Action
Climate Lessons Update - May 2015
Letter to Climate Change Educators
Climate change educators!
It is an exciting time for us as we mo...
Climate Generation
Climate Lesson Update - February 2015
Did you make a new year’s resolution? It’s not too late. Come help us celebrate our 10th Annual Summ...
Climate Literacy
Climate Lesson Update - December 2014
As we get ready to celebrate our 10th year at the Will Steger Foundation, we want to take some time ...
Climate Literacy
Climate Lesson Update - November 2014
We’re so excited to be able to share with you our newly edited curricula that is taking over the Nov...
Climate Generation
Summer Institute 2015 Presenters
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Summer Institute 2015
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Summer Institute 2015
Climate Lesson Update - October 2014
We hope your school year has successfully kicked off! It’s October which means the leaves are chang...
Climate Literacy
On MPR Morning Edition Today
Our Director of Education, Kristen Poppleton, spoke with MPR's Cathy Wurzer during today's Morning ...
Education
Climate Lesson Update - May 2014
The National Climate Assessment report is the most comprehensive, user-friendly and visually intrigu...
Climate Literacy
2014 Summer Institute Speaker and Guest Bios
Keynote Speaker
Dr. John Abraham is a Professor of Thermal Sciences where he researches in climate...
Summer Institute 2014
The Changing Arctic Int'l Cooperation and Development - Pt 2 Keynote
The changes in the Arctic are relevant right here in the "North Star" state, where there's a rich ...
Professional Development Videos
The Changing Arctic: Int'l Cooperation and Development, Part 1
The changes in the Arctic are relevant right here in the "North Star" state, where there's a rich ...
Professional Development Videos
1989-90 International Trans-Antarctica Expedition Reunion
On March 3, 1990, a team of six men from six different countries and their 42 sled dogs completed ...
Professional Development Videos
US China Press Conference - COP15
Iowa delegate Holly Jones participates in the US/China youth press conference at COP15. Youth orga...
Professional Development Videos
KSTP-TV On The Road with Jason Davis
KSTP's Jason Davis features the HIRE Minnesota campaign with Will and Louis King for his On The Ro...
Professional Development Videos
Benefits of Grass-fed Beef in a Carbon Constrained World
Todd Churchill, President and Owner of Thousand Hills Cattle Company shares his thoughts with farm...
Professional Development Videos
Gerardo Ruiz, Solar Business owner explains why there is no such thing as a free lunch
Gerardo Ruiz of freener-g, hosts a press conference with Will Steger and other MN business leaders...
Professional Development Videos
Bill McKibben Presentation
The Will Steger Foundation
Bill McKibben, author, educator, environmentalist, joined us at the 2009...
Professional Development Videos
Tom Goldtooth at Copenhagen Climate Summit
Tom Goldtooth, Ojibwe and Navajo from Bemidji, Minnesota speaks about indigenous rights at a side ...
Professional Development Videos
Adventure Learning - Explorers (Young)
Explorers (Young) - Adventure Learning
Teachers
Climate Generation’s expeditions aim to inspire part...
Arctic
Adventure Learning - Scientists
Scientists - Adventure Learning
Teachers
Baffin Island Expedition 2007
“Slush Holes” - Abby Fent...
Arctic
Katabatic Winds
Can you imagine relaxing on a ship in coastal waters with calm weather or only light winds and then ...
Antarctic
How much ice is on Antarctica?
Visualize a mountain range that is more than 800 miles (1300 km) long and 9,900 feet (3,000 meters) ...
Antarctic
A desert with 80% of the world’s fresh water?
If someone asked you to name the world’s driest continent, what would you guess? Would you be surpri...
Antarctic
A dynamic home on the ice
Imagine what it would be like if your house or apartment grew and shrank every year. In the Antarcti...
Antarctic
Shelf Ice
In 1991 Will Steger’s international team of explorers spent weeks crossing the Larsen ice shelf on t...
Antarctic
Why doesn’t Antarctica have more fertile soil?
Imagine you are tiny bacteria or a bit of algae whose job it is to colonize the gravel, sand, clay a...
Antarctic
Why do those penguins seem so warm?
Have you ever seen footage of penguins walking around in the cold wind and wondered why they seem so...
Antarctic
What is life like under the surface of the Antarctic Ocean?
Which of the world’s oceans would you guess is the most biologically productive? Would you guess a t...
Antarctic
Krill
It’s like something out of a science-fiction horror movie: creatures that feed on slime coating the ...
Antarctic
B-15: An iceberg the size of Connecticut
In May of the year 2000 a chunk of ice measuring 4,250 square miles (11,000 square kilometers) broke...
Antarctic
Does anyone own Antarctica?
Antarctica has no native people and was officially “discovered” only 188 years ago. There is no agre...
Antarctic
The Energy-Conscious Consumer
Save money and the planet all at once! Being a smart consumer and basing purchasing and lifestyle d...
Solutions: Personal Behavior
Fuel Cells
If you spend enough time studying up on fossil fuel alternatives, you will often encounter the ph...
Solutions: Renewable
Paul Schurke - Explorers (Modern)
Wintergreen Expeditions
Ely, Minnesota
www.dogsledding.com
BACKGROUND
Paul Schurke first reached t...
Arctic
Sam Branson - Explorers (Young)
Sam Branson – Age 21, Great BritainBACKGROUND
Sam joined Will Steger on the Global Warming 101 Baff...
Arctic
Ben Horton - Explorers (Young)
Ben Horton - Age 24, Unites StatesBACKGROUND
Recipient of the National Geographic Society’s first Y...
Arctic
Tobias Thorleifsson - Explorers (Young)
Thorleif Tobias (Toby) Thorleifsson, Age 28, NorwayREFLECTIONS OF A YOUNG EXPLORER by Toby Thorlief...
Arctic
Reading Four: Plant communities
Reading Four: Plant Communities
Impact: Soil destabalization
The ice in the permafrost (permanently...
Arctic
Reading Three: Land dwellers
Reading Three: Land dwellers
Impact: Difficulty getting to food
Global warming has affected the wi...
Arctic
Reading Five: Ocean Communities
Reading Five: Ocean Communities
Impact: Shrinking habitats for cold-water species
In the Bering Sea...
Arctic
Reading Two: Ice-edge dwellers
Reading Two: Ice-edge Dwellers
Impact: Habitat disintegratingIce-dependent seals like the ringed s...
Arctic
Reading One: Polar Bears
Reading One: Polar Bears
Impact: Difficulty getting food Polar bears hunt ice-dwelling seals. The ...
Arctic
Sigrid Ekran - Explorers (Young)
Sigrid Ekran Age 28, NorwayREFLECTIONS OF A YOUNG EXLPLORER, by Sigrid Ekran
I grew up on the famil...
Arctic
Ann E. Bancroft - Explorers (Modern)
Educator/Explorer/Lecturer
www.bancroftarnesen.com
www.annbancroftfoundation.org
BACKGROUND
In 198...
Arctic