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Estimating The Impact Of Exceptional Climate Change Education On Individual Lifetime Carbon Emissions, Eugene Cordero, Diana Centeno, Elizabeth Walsh, Anne Marie Todd
Estimating The Impact Of Exceptional Climate Change Education On Individual Lifetime Carbon Emissions, Eugene Cordero, Diana Centeno, Elizabeth Walsh, Anne Marie Todd
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The Promise Of An Energy Tracker Curriculum For Promoting Home-School Connections And Youth Agency In Climate Action, Elizabeth M. Walsh, Derek Jenkins, Eugene Cordero
The Promise Of An Energy Tracker Curriculum For Promoting Home-School Connections And Youth Agency In Climate Action, Elizabeth M. Walsh, Derek Jenkins, Eugene Cordero
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Formal classroom learning experiences that support sustainable behaviors outside the classroom necessarily must bridge students’ home and school lives, as knowledge and practice learned in the classroom is implemented outside of school. To this end, we study the impact of the Green Ninja Energy Tracker curriculum, which uses students’ home energy data in the classroom to promote engagement in climate change and conservation behaviors. Data is drawn from class observations, a focus group, and pre- and post- surveys of a pilot implementation of this curriculum in a diverse 12th-grade Earth Science classroom at an alternative school. We investigate what factors …