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1. Home

2. CalEnviroScreen

3. CalEnviroScreen 4.0

A new version of the California Communities Environmental Health Screening Tool: CalEnviroScreen 4.0 was released in October 2021. CalEnviroScreen is a screening methodology that can be used to help identify California communities that are disproportionately burdened by multiple sources of pollution. The CalEnviroScreen 4.0 results are available as a mapping tool. Maps of the CalEnviroScreen 4.0 Indicators are also available.

This version updates CalEnviroScreen in a variety of ways:

All indicators contain the most recent available data.

There are improvements in the way some indicators are calculated to better reflect environmental conditions or population vulnerability to pollution.

One new indicator, Children's Lead Risk from Housing, accounts for possible lead exposure from paint and other sources in or around the home.

SB 535 Disadvantaged Communities (2022) En español aqui

CalEnviroScreen 4.0 Report and Documents:

The draft CalEnviroScreen 4.0 was released for public comment from February 19 to May 14, 2021. OEHHA convened a webinar and six workshops on the draft CalEnviroScreen 4.0 for the public to learn about the updates and provide public comment on the draft. Visit the workshop and public comment page to view the workshop summaries and public comments received on the draft.

See also CalEPA's 2022 SB 535 Identification of Disadvantaged Communities using CalEnviroScreen 4.0. More information is available on OEHHA's SB 535 page.

Mapping Tools

Map of CalEnviroScreen 4.0 Results. Click to open in a new window. [En Español aquí]

Map of CalEnviroScreen 4.0 Indicators. Click to open in a new window.

CalEnviroScreen 4.0 Data Dashboard

The dashboard is an interactive online tool used for filtering and visualizing the latest CalEnviroScreen data. Users can filter CalEnviroScreen 4.0 data by geography (county, city, or legislative district) and by any combination of the results from the 21 CalEnviroScreen indicators. The dashboard can be accessed on its own or through the user guide. A tutorial video is also available.

Analysis and StoryMap on Race/Ethnicity and CalEnviroScreen 4.0 Results

Understanding the role that race/ethnicity plays in the context of pollution burdens and vulnerabilities remains an important part of this work.
A analysis of the CalEnviroScreen 4.0 results by race/ethnicity is available with an accompanying StoryMap. OEHHA plans to release a more extensive analysis of data on race/ethnicity and age with the CalEnviroScreen 4.0 results in the future.

Hub Website
Also see the CalEnviroScreen Hub website, where you can find data, maps, supplemental analyses and other information on CalEnviroScreen 4.0 as it is released.

Data and Additional Materials

Microsoft Excel spreadsheet and PDF with a Data Dictionary: There are two files in this zipped folder. 1) a spreadsheet showing raw data and calculated percentiles for individual indicators and combined CalEnviroScreen scores for individual census tracts with additional demographic information. 2) a pdf document including the data dictionary and information on zeros and missing values: CalEnviroScreen 4.0 Excel and Data Dictionary PDF

ArcGIS Geodatabase: Includes CalEnviroScreen 4.0 results by census tract. Additional information describing the data and its limitations is part of the geodatabase (metadata). A zipped file which can be unzipped, then opened using ArcGIS software to view the results in a File Geodatabase Feature Class format (ArcGIS is a paid subscription): CalEnviroScreen 4.0 GDB file

Shapefile: Includes CalEnviroScreen 4.0 results by census tract. Additional information describing the data and its limitations is part of the shapefile (metadata). Zipped file can be unzipped, and then opened in any GIS software: CalEnviroScreen 4.0 SHP file

Service URL: ArcGIS feature service: https://services1.arcgis.com/PCHfdHz4GlDNAhBb/arcgis/rest/services/CalEnviroScreen_4_0_Results_/FeatureServer

For questions, please contact CalEnviroScreen@oehha.ca.gov or (916) 324-7572.

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At the Core of Climate Change | PBS LearningMedia

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In this lesson with accompanying video from Clue into Climate, produced by KQED, students will learn about the greenhouse effect and find out how scientists use data collected from ice cores to study climate change. Increasing greenhouse gases are contributing to global warming, which is changing our climate.

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Most local governments find themselves facing difficult climate resilience challenges with few financial resources or help from state or federal governments. Climate resilience planning can be intimidating and overwhelming.

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Climate Change 2022: Impacts, Adaptation and Vulnerability

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Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change Working Group II contribution to the Sixth Assessment Report

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Common Online Data Analysis Platform (CODAP) - CODAP

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Climate Action Project Summit Presentation January 2023

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Submit your environmental justice story and art based on Jothsna’s >>>> LILLY to complete (SUMMARY, ACTION)

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The UCI Science Project is proud to announce the creation of this statewide network to connect K-16 educators, nonprofits, industry professionals, and UC/CSU researchers to address climate and environmental issues within each of our regions.

Explore this no-cost program for math and science teachers looking for standards-aligned support with remote instruction through climate change investigations. Participants will collaborate to integrate both subjects into their classes in meaningful ways to support students.

Join upcoming professional learning opportunities where we connect with UCI faculty/staff, local organizations, community members, industry professionals, and more to learn about and take action on the climate crisis in meaningful ways.

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The UCI Science Project is proud to announce the creation of this statewide network to connect K-16 educators, nonprofits, industry professionals, and UC/CSU researchers to address climate and environmental issues within each of our regions. Explore this no-cost program for math and science teachers looking for standards-aligned support with remote instruction through climate change investigations.

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Nearly one-third of the secondary science standards relate to climate science, but teachers need design and implementation support to create empowering learning experiences centered around the climate crisis. Experienced science educator, instructional coach, and educational leader Dr. Kelley T. Le offers this support, providing an overview of the teaching shifts needed for NGSS and to support climate literacy for students via urgent topics in climate science and environmental justice - from the COVID-19 pandemic to global warming, rising sea temperatures, deforestation, and mass extinction. You'll also learn how to engage the complexity of climate change by exploring social, racial, and environmental injustices stemming from the climate crisis that directly impact students.

By anchoring instruction around the climate crisis, Dr. Le offers guidance on how to empower students to be the agents of change needed in their own communities.

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CAPMSE - Remote Math and Science Teaching Through Climate Investigation

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The Science of Climate Change Explained: Facts, Evidence and Proof

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Figure 1. A Corsi-Rosenthal Cube. This cube was constructed with 4 MERV-13 filters and features a cardboard bottom.

The Corsi-Rosenthal Cube (sometimes called a Comparetto Cube) is an inexpensive, do-it-yourself air cleaner that can be easily constructed out of a box fan and MERV-13 furnace filters. The Corsi-Rosenthal Cube can give whole-room air cleaning performance comparable to commercial HEPA air cleaners that are 10x or more the cost. Total cost is around $100USD ($130CAD).

Construction guide

Figure 2. A visual guide to constructing a Corsi-Rosenthal cube with a box fan and MERV filters with a top fan configuration. Air is pulled into filters (red arrows) and blows out of fan (green arrows). Photo by CC-BY al.hu.

What's needed:

4 or 5 MERV-13 furnace filters. You will want to purchase 20" sized MERV-13 filters. For the 3M Filtrete brand of furnace filters, this is "FPR 1900." If MERV-13 is not available, MERV-11 filters can be used but performance will not be as great. Important note: see the notes on MERV-13 filter tests below for brands to potentially avoid.

A 20" box fan

Duct tape

Some cardboard

How to construct (Figure 2):

Figure 2. A visual guide to constructing a Corsi-Rosenthal cube with a box fan and MERV filters with a top fan configuration. Air is pulled into filters (red arrows) and blows out of fan (green arrows). Photo by CC-BY al.hu.

Figure 3. A visual guide to constructing a Corsi-Rosenthal cube with a box fan and MERV filters with a side fan configuration. Photo by CC-BY al.hu.

Figure 4. Cut the internal diameter of the fan shroud based on the brand. Photo by CC-BY al.hu.

1. Duct tape the filters together, forming an incomplete cube. Try to avoid taping over the filter media part of each filter.

2. When taping the filters together, make sure to arrange each filter so that the air intake direction of the filter goes inward. The filters should indicate which direction the air is supposed to flow. So you want each filter's airflow direction to point into the cube, not out.

3. There should be two empty sides of your incomplete cube. The box fan will go on one of these empty sides and the cardboard will go on the other.

4. Cut your piece of cardboard to fit over the bottom area of the cube, where the cube will sit against the ground. Duct tape it to the bottom.

5. Duct tape the box fan to the top of the cube. You want the fan to blow air out (not into) the cube. You can also place the fan on the side, rather than the top, of the cube (Figure 3). Having the fan point directly up into the air is a bit better because it's less obtrusive.

6. Optional, but strongly encouraged (47% boost!): for increased performance you can create a 'fan shroud'. Cut a piece of cardboard so that the circle created by the fan blades is exposed by the edges of the fan are covered (see diagram or these instructions). You can also use duct tape on the fan to create this 'shroud' as well. The optimal shroud opening has been determined based on the fan brand: For Lasko fans, cut the shroud with an internal diameter (Figure 4) of 15"; for Utilitech fans, use 13.5". For increased durability, you can use Coroplast (corrrugated plastic) or 1/4 inch thick plywood to make the shroud.

Filter brands to potentially avoid

Multiple independent testers of the "FilterBuy" brand "MERV-13" filters report that they do not perform as expected. As of 2021, FilterBuy appears to be a popular MERV-13 filter vendor on sites like Amazon. If purchasing FilterBuy MERV-13, you may want to test the filters with a particle counter or find some way of ensuring their quality.

Variations

Figure 5. A 5-filter version of the Corsi-Rosenthal Cube. The cube is raised slightly off of the ground to allow air through the bottom filter.

5-filter version (Figure 5)
Rather than placing a piece of cardboard on the bottom side of the cube, another filter can be added in place of the cardboard. In this case, you would want to raise the cube off the ground (without blocking the entire bottom filter) so that the bottom filter could be utilized. This would in theory lead to less resistance on the fan motor, potentially prolonging the life of the fan and filters, and increasing the air output.
2-filter "wedge" design (Figure 6)

Figure 6. A 2-filter "wedge" variation of the DIY box fan air cleaner.

A variation of the air cleaner can be made using two MERV-13 filters (add details). This version is slightly less expensive (2 fewer filters are needed) and has a slightly smaller footprint.
One filter design, the "classic" DIY box fan air cleaner design.
You can duct tape a single filter to the back of a box fan. In this case there is more strain on the fan motor, more air resistance and the air cleaning efficacy would not be as great. You would also have to replace the filter on the back of the fan more often. But this design has the advantage of having a low footprint and being the least expensive option.

Figure 7. A Corsi-Rosenthal cube featuring a Lasko 20" high velocity floor fan rather than a box fan. The fan's base was removed and a considerable amount of duct tape was used to seal the fan to the top of the cube.

Using a non-box fan (Figure 7)
With some effort (and potentially a lot of duct tape or custom woodworking), you can make a cube using a higher-CFM floor fan. The advantage of this design is that these floor fans put out a lot more CFM than box fans, so the unit will clean the air faster or be better in larger spaces. The downside is it's harder to construct, considerably louder and the cube is less physically stable. There is a guide to constructing a version of one of these using wood.

History

As discussed in his original blog post, the design for the Corsi-Rosenthal Cube was detailed by Jim Rosenthal, CEO of Tex-Air Filters, and was dedicated to Dr. Richard Corsi. Neil Comparetto also detailed a similar design in a popular YouTube video, which he called a "Comparetto Cube."

Room sizing & placement

Due to the DIY nature of the Corsi-Rosenthal box, exact figures on the proper room size for the box can't be predicted. However, engineers have taken measurements of various configurations of the box and reasonable approximations can be given.
Corsi-Rosenthal without fan shroud (typical box fan):
Likely delivers at least 5 equivalent air changes per hour in a 500 sqft room (8' ceilings). Likely at least 331 CFM CADR. Figures assume fan is on "high."
Corsi-Rosenthal with optimal fan shroud (typical box fan):
If an optimally-sized fan shroud is used (see instructions above), the cube may deliver around 5 equivalent air changes per hour in a 680 sqft room (8' ceilings). Likely at least 455 CFM CADR. Figures assume fan is on "high."

These figures are conservative. For sources for these approximate figures, see the scratch page here. Updates will be made to this page as more figures are obtained. Keep in mind these are approximations.

If using the Corsi-Rosenthal cube for COVID airborne risk mitigation, experts at Harvard and CU Boulder have created a downloadable calculator that can be used to help size air purifiers to a room. The "CADR" figures from above can be used as an approximation in this calculator.

The optimal place to put a Corsi-Rosenthal cube may be the center of a room, but the unit will work effectively as long as they are at least 3 feet away from a wall.

Power usage, noise & safety

As a DIY project, exact figures for power usage and noise can't be known. Based on readings with two popular fan box fan brands, the Corsi-Rosenthal Cube appears to use around the same amount of power as the underlying fans with no filters attached (e.g. between 58W and 88W on high in these readings).

The Corsi-Rosenthal box is around 51 dBA at 6', or slightly quieter than a typical refrigerator.

The EPA funded a study by Underwriters Laboratories (UL) which tested box fans with MERV-13 filters attached, finding them to not present a fire hazard even in extreme, modified conditions.

Governments that have suggested DIY box fan air filters include the San Francisco Department of Public Health and the state of Oregon (for wildfires).

See also

A collage of the many different Corsi-Rosenthal boxes. Collage by Kimberly Prather.

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Impacts of Climate Change on Human Health

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Climate Learning Resources

Global climate change is rapidly impacting all life on earth. But impacts of climate change are complex, uneven, and worsening, with people from poverty-impacted and BIPOC communities often experiencing impacts most sharply. We must be prepared to understand and respond to climate science. Education is a vital context for building capacity for just, community-driven adaptation and resilience efforts as well as for promoting the enactment of equitable mitigation efforts around the world.

Justice-centered climate change learning is complex, but urgent. To support educators to build capacity for this work, we are creating a suite of resources focused on different aspects of this work. Climate science learning has to happen across PK-12 classroom, in informal education and outdoor contexts, and in community-based learning settings.

To that end, we have created the following kinds of resources on this page:

STEM Teaching Tools on Climate

STEM Teaching Tools are short, two-page briefs on particular topics in education. We have worked with collaborators to develop STEM Teaching Tools on the following themes:

Why Teach Climate Change?

STEM Teaching Tool #12Scientific literacy involves understanding global climate change & what people can do about it

STEM Teaching Tool #44Addressing controversial science topics in the K-12 classroom

STEM Teaching Tool #10Teaching STEM In Ways that Respect and Build Upon Indigenous Peoples' Rights

STEM Teaching Tool #78Navigating the Political Dimensions of Climate Change Teaching and Learning

Pedagogy with a Foundation of Justice and Ecological Caring

STEM Teaching Tool #70How can environmental educators practice intersectional environmentalism?

STEM Teaching Tool #80How to productively reframe eco-anxiety as a science communicator or educator

STEM Teaching Tool #61Using science investigations to develop caring practices for social-ecological systems

STEM Teaching Tool #55Why it is crucial to make cultural diversity visible in STEM education?

STEM Teaching Tool #11Implementing Meaningful STEM Education with Indigenous Students & Families

STEM Teaching Tool #57 How place-based science education strategies can support equity for students, teachers, and communities

STEM Teaching Tool #71How can you advance equity and justice through science teaching?

STEM Teaching Tool #84Let's Talk Climate! Bridging Climate Justice Learning and Action Across School, Home, and Community

Selecting Justice-Centered, Local Anchor Phenomena

STEM Teaching Tool #67Focusing Science and Engineering Learning on Justice-Centered Phenomena across PK-12

STEM Teaching Tool #69
Using Local Phenomena to Communicate Climate Solutions

STEM Teaching Tool #87Identifying local environmental justice phenomena for science and engineering investigations

Focusing Climate Change Learning on Solutions

STEM Teaching Tool #68
Keeping Climate Science Learning and Instruction Focused on Creating Solutions and Building Community Resilience

STEM Teaching Tool #73
Connecting science instruction to neighborhood life through collaborative design with community

STEM Teaching Tool #90
Designing Climate Change Learning for Action

STEM Teaching Tool #93
Think globally, act locally: Promote the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) through community-centered learning

Building Partnerships with Scientists, Families, and Other Community Members

STEM Teaching Tool #74Designing and participating in community and citizen science efforts to support equity and justice

STEM Teaching Tool #77Building Family-Centered Models for Science Education through Learning in Places

STEM Teaching Tool #82Supporting observations, wonderings, systems thinking & "Should We" deliberations through Learning in Places

The Climate Teacher Education Collaborative

The STEM Teaching Tools team at UW Seattle runs the Climate Teacher Education Collaborative, a network building resources and capacity to teach about community climate justice projects and civic response to the climate crisis in teacher education programs. The initiative is hosting webinars and events; engaging small collaborative teams in developing open education resources (OER) for use in teacher education; and developing educative case studies of community climate responses. Follow the project on Twitter at @ClimateEdTools and explore resources below!

Webinars
Sept. 2022: Using Theatrical Performance to Promote Climate Justice

The September 2022 Climate Teacher Ed Webinar featured Nick Slie, the Co-Artistic Director of Mondo Bizarro and a New Orleans born performer, producer, and cultural organizer. Nick share work from multiple projects that take an intersectional arts-science approach to highlight issues of climate justice in the Mississippi Delta region of the U.S. He draws in examples from science- and arts-based water literacy instruction that is foundationally centered in climate justice, including the Invisible Rivers and the Cry You One projects.
Aug. 2022: Community Climate Justice Education

In the August 2022 Climate Teacher Ed webinar, Jason Foster and Ayesha T. Qazi-Lampert discuss the power of teaching about the environment and climate using community-centered, racial justice pedagogy. Drawing from their experiences working in the Chicago Public School System, Jason and Ayesha share resources that connect teachers with environmental current events happening in their own neighborhoods, and they encourage educators to forge connections with each other and with community members. They highlight the importance of decolonizing biases, learning the history of environmental justice, communicating about justice issues broadly, and developing a critical lens that is interconnected, interdisciplinary, and intergenerational.

July 2022: Sustaining Community-School Relationships Around Shared Visions of Climate Justice & Science Ed.

In the July 2022 Climate Teacher Ed webinar, David Segura, Danny Morales-Doyle, Karen Salas, Amy Levingston and Susan Nelson describe how a long-term community-school partnership has been able to focus curriculum and social action on environmental justice issues. They share the history of the partnership, the frameworks for justice-focused science education they use, multiple justice-centered curricular examples tied to youth-community action, and guidance on how to take up this inspiring work. There is so much to learn from this work!

June 2022: (W)holistic Science Pedagogy and Climate Justice

In the June 2022 Climate Teacher Ed Webinar, Dr. Alexis Patterson Williams and Dr. Salina Gray discuss their (W)holistic Science Pedagogy framework and share two climate justice curriculum examples. Their approach centers intentional self-work and emotional reflection by educators, engages students in a broad image of science and supports them in taking justice-centered action on climate. They describe the power of focusing instruction on the UN Sustainable Development Goals and share a broad range of supporting resources.
May 2022: Teaching for Climate Justice and Student Action

The May 2022 Climate Teacher Ed Webinar featured Tim Swinehart, a Geography and Environmental Justice teacher at Lincoln High School and a teacher candidate instructor at the Lewis and Clark Graduate School of Education, in Portland, Oregon. In this webinar, Tim highlights multidisciplinary ways of engaging high school youth in different forms of climate justice efforts - from public literary performances to crafting educational policy to direct political action. He describes how educators can take up a justice-centered climate approach in their teaching and inspire students to get involved in community action and activism. Tim shares details about his deep expertise with environmental activism in the classroom and shares resources for engaging youth in different kinds of action on climate justice.

April 2022: It's Not Only About the Content

This webinar from April 2022 features Lindsey Kirkland, senior climate change education manager for Climate Generation. In her work, Lindsey designs justice-centered climate change education programs for the public and professional development for K-12 educators. In this webinar, she describes the organization's more recent work to build deep, justice-centered regional networks for teacher learning. She also discusses the power of storytelling to build understanding, empathy and relationships, telling stories from her own journey toward anti-racism in climate justice work.

March 2022: Leveraging Environmental Justice to Unlock the Potential of Education

The March 2022 Climate Teacher Ed Webinar features Drs. Kelley Lê and Juan Manuel Rubio (both from University of California Irvine), who share their educational efforts connecting environmental justice, history, science, and civic action. They trace how a local community has been investigating and taking action in response to a history of soil pollution-and how educators can bring that kind of socio-scientific topic into secondary science instruction. They discuss how science and science education need to be reframed in order to focus on working towards justice.

Feb. 2022: Pedagogical Commitments for Climate Justice Education

This video features the work of Dr. Fikile Nxumalo (University of Toronto) and Pablo Montes PhC (University of Texas at Austin), who focus on place-based, environmental justice-focused approaches to early childhood education working from Indigenous knowledges and Black feminist geographies. Dr. Nxumalo and Mr. Montes described educational examples from their efforts and offer guidance for educators and teacher educators based on their article "Pedagogical Commitments for Climate Justice Education" (published recently in the NSTA Connected Science Learning journal) which focuses on anti-coloniality, radical relationality, and reciprocity.

Climate Justice Lesson Plans for Preservice Teacher Educators

Centering Environmental and Climate Justice in Education
By Deb L. Morrison & Philip Bell

In this lesson, preservice teachers will develop an understanding of climate justice as multifaceted, learn strategies for identifying and engaging learners with justice-centered phenomena, and explore case studies of environmental and climate justice phenomena.

Leveraging Environmental Justice to Unlock the Potential of Education
By Jeanne Norris, Kelley Lê, Juan Manuel Rubio, Deb L. Morrison & Philip Bell

In this lesson, preservice teachers learn to define key aspects of environmental justice, describe rationales and strategies for engaging students in environmental justice learning activities, explore with learners the socio-historic contexts that influence different traditions of scientific activity and knowledge production, and use environmental justice-centered curricula resources to focus instruction on societally relevant science.

It's Not Only About the Content: People, Culture, and Processes within Climate Justice Education
By Jeanne Norris, Lindsey Kirkland, Kristen Poppleton, & Deb L. Morrison

This lesson supports preservice teachers to describe their personal stories around climate justice and reflect on how these experiences shape their work. Then, the tool helps them define and develop a network of local and national climate justice partners to engage in climate justice learning with youth.

Teaching for Climate Justice and Student Action
By Jeanne Norris, Tim Swinehart, Deb L. Morrison, & Philip Bell

This tool for preservice educators helps them focus on student climate action, learning about instructional approaches and how to navigate systems to make space for this type of learning.

(W)holistic Science Pedagogy &
Climate Justice
By Dr. Alexis Patterson Williams, Dr. Salina Gray, Taiji Nelson & Philip Bell

This PD session helps preservice educators apply the (W)holistic Science Pedagogy framework to their own teaching, with a focus on climate justice learning for social action, liberation, and healing.

Using Theatrical Performance to Promote Climate Justice
By Jeanne Norris, Nick Slie, and Deb L. Morrison

This PD session helps preservice educators explore ways to add the arts and center place-connections into their own work in climate justice learning.

3D Assessment Examples for Climate Science Learning

In collaboration with the ClimeTime Initiative, we have created a shared Google Drive folder with assessments designed to support climate change science teaching and learning. These assessments are intended to support educators in understanding the nature of equitable assessment practices in the context of climate science learning across a range of grade levels and topics. The ClimeTime Initiative Assessment Project has further details.

Access the full folder here or individual assessments below.

Elementary School

Breathing Easier: This task is for 4th grade elementary students studying natural resources (renewable/nonrenewable) and/or air pollution. It is designed to reveal and develop students abilities to utilize multiple sources of data to support a claim.

Flooded Playground: This task is for 4th grade students. It is designed to assess students abilities to generate and compare multiple solutions to a problem considering criteria and constraints.

Growing Plants: This task is for late-elementary (3-5) students, especially while studying about the needs of plants. Students use a simulation as a model of an investigation into the Reveal and develop student abilities to model the interactions within and between human body systems.

Patterns in Weather: This task is targeted to students in pre-K to kindergarten classroom or other setting where the same teacher sees the same students daily. Collecting weather data across time supports data collection and analysis practices. Students can use their own data to look for patterns across time.

Trash Talk: This task is for 5th grade students. After class discussions about trash, litter, and available programs for recycling and composting, students collect trash and sort it into "recycling," "food waste/compostable," and "landfill."

Washington River: This task is for fourth grade students. It is designed to assess students' ability to identify erosion from observational data and assess student understanding of the causes and effects of erosion.

Weather and Regions: This task is for third grade students. It is designed to assess students' ability to understand weather data and use data to describe climate patterns.

Middle School

Lake Youngs: This task is for middle school students, especially while studying body systems or algal blooms. It is designed to reveal and develop student abilities to model the interactions within and between human body systems.

Melting Ice: This task is for middle school students studying energy transfer and/or particle motion. It is designed to assess students understanding of energy transfer and develop skills creating or modifying a model to describe an energy transfer phenomenon.

Modeling Temperature Change: This task is for students in grades 6-8 studying energy transfers. It is designed to evaluate student understanding of thermal energy transfer and reveal and develop student abilities to model thermal energy.

We've got Water: This task is targeted to students in grades 6-8 studying ecology and human impacts on the environment. It is designed to gather information about students' ability to identify relationships between a human activity and environmental impacts on water resources.

High School

Acidic Seas: This task is for high school chemistry students studying pH and/or equilibrium or for high school environmental science students studying ocean acidification. It is designed to explore student understanding of and solutions for ocean acidification.

Carbon Footprint: This task is designed for high school students studying the impacts of human activities on the carbon cycle and/or global warming. This is designed to assess student modeling practices and assess student thinking around human impacts on the carbon cycle and/or global warming

Climate and Human Health: This assessment is designed for high school students studying climate change and/or the effects of environmental conditions on humans. After discussing climate change and local impacts, students explore the Department of Health's Washington Tracking Network (WTN) to see if there are correlations between air quality and asthma hospitalization rates. Students incorporate what they have learned to develop an argument using claim, evidence, and reasoning.

Liquid Natural Gas (LNG) Facility Proposal: This task is for high school students, especially in Chemistry or Environmental Science. It is designed to help them learn about student connections related to natural gas energy systems and marine-land environments in the context of tribal-urban communities and to reveal and develop student abilities to compare and develop arguments for managing energy needs.

Plus, the folder includes templates for these assessments that you can download and use to create your own.

Climate & Environmental Justice in Education Graduate-Level Course

How can we learn to create a more just world where all humans and other creatures can thrive?

This winter, team members Philip Bell and Nancy Price taught a course at the University of Washington on climate and environmental justice in education. They shared the course description, readings, resources, and more on their site, which you can access for free.

Explore how themes of ecological care, multispecies wellbeing, and equity relate to climate and environmental education. Check out the graduate seminar online here, and join the inquiry on Twitter at #UWClimateEd.

Research Briefs: Communicating Climate Change

The Relating Research to Practice project developed 1 4 research briefs to summarize and clarify research on communicating climate change. Access briefs on topics like trusted scientific sources, the relationship between beliefs and action , and using story in science communication.
Read all the Relating Research to Practice briefs on communicating climate change.
Climate and Environmental Education Articles for Educators

Designing for Future Action: How STEAM Programming Can Support Youth Engagement in Community Changemaking Projects, Connected Science Learning January-Feburary 2022
By Mairéad Hurley, Abby Rhinehart, Philip Bell, Autumn Brown, Nancy Price, and Joseph Roche

Climate Change Issue of Connected Science Learning, September-October 2021, featuring:

Social Justice in the Science Classroom, Next Gen Navigator, May 2020, featuring:

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Climate Learning Resources : StemTeachingTools (en-US)

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Global climate change is rapidly impacting all life on earth. But impacts of climate change are complex, uneven, and worsening, with people from poverty-impacted and BIPOC communities often experiencing impacts most sharply. We must be prepared to understand and respond to climate science.

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https://www.bloomberg.com/graphics/climate-change-data-green/

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https://climatevisuals.org/

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Visualizing Climate Change: An Open Call for Photography | Climate Visuals

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Together, Climate Visuals and TED Countdown have released 100 photographs that showcase climate solutions alongside the global impact of climate change. The images were selected from more than 5,500 unique submissions from professional and amateur, gender-balanced photographers - spanning more than 150 countries.

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https://climatecommunication.yale.edu/

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Yale Program on Climate Change Communication

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How many Americans want an electric home?

International Public Opinion on Climate Change, 2023

Who supports climate justice in the U.S.?

Which Republicans are worried about global warming?

What do Americans think is the biggest threat from global warming?

How many Americans want an electric home?

International Public Opinion on Climate Change, 2023

Who supports climate justice in the U.S.?

Which Republicans are worried about global warming?

What do Americans think is the biggest threat from global warming?

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The Yale Program on Climate Change Communication

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Public opinion polls on climate change knowledge, attitudes, policies, and behavior.

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https://yaleclimateconnections.org/

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Yale Climate Connections provides daily broadcast radio programming and original web-based reporting, commentary, and analysis on the issue of climate change, one of the greatest challenges and stories confronting modern society.

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En-Roads Climate Change solution 'simulator'

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En-Roads Climate Change solution 'simulator'

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Explore the En-ROADS Simulator ❯

En-ROADS is a global climate simulator that allows users to explore the impact that dozens of policies-such as electrifying transport, pricing carbon, and improving agricultural practices-have on hundreds of factors like energy prices, temperature, air quality, and sea level rise.

Developed by Climate Interactive, the MIT Sloan Sustainability Initiative, and Ventana Systems, En-ROADS is a system dynamics model carefully grounded in the best available science, and has been calibrated against a wide range of existing integrated assessment, climate, and energy models. En-ROADS runs on an ordinary laptop in a fraction of a second, is freely available online, offers an intuitive user-friendly interface, and is available in over a dozen languages.

En-ROADS helps people make connections between things they care about and the possibilities available to help ensure a resilient future. Users can quickly see the long-term effects of the global climate policies and actions they imagine. The goal? To break through the noise and equip elected officials, business leaders, and others with the knowledge they need to implement equitable and high-leverage climate solutions. You can learn more about the science behind the simulator here.

Open the En-ROADS Simulator ❯

En-ROADS can be used individually online, but it is most often used as part of a facilitated group learning experiences: the En-ROADS Climate Workshop, the Climate Action Simulation game, or the En-ROADS Guided Assignment. These interactive events help participants gain key insights from the simulator, adopt new perspectives, and build grounded hope in a fun and engaging format. These experiences can be offered either in-person or via online platforms, and all materials are free.

We encourage you to join our online training to learn more about En-ROADS, its related experiences, and more. Our training covers: climate and energy system dynamics, interdisciplinary climate solutions, advanced facilitation tips, and more.

Join our free Training Program ❯

Anyone can lead En-ROADS events

A wide range of people have led En-ROADS events, including several national government leaders, a president of a major philanthropic foundation, chief sustainability officers, university professors, citizen leaders, and educators the world over. Facilitators from diverse backgrounds bring En-ROADS insights to their community through our interactive group experiences.

Anyone with enough interest can learn how to run an En-ROADS event for their desired audience.

Our event resources are:

Find the event that's right for you ❯

En-ROADS Climate Ambassadors

Register Your Event ❯

See more press ❯

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PurpleAir | Real-time Air Quality Monitoring

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Hyper-local, real-time, public air quality map. Visualize PM2.5 AQI in your area for free. Useful to community scientists or air quality professionals alike, PurpleAir sensors are easy to install, requiring only a power outlet and WiFi.

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https://www.epa.gov/climate-change/climate-change-resources-educators-and-students

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https://drawdown.org/

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Project Drawdown's mission is to help the world stop climate change-as quickly, safely, and equitably as possible.

We do this by advancing effective, science-based climate solutions and strategies; fostering bold, new climate leadership; and promoting new climate narratives and new voices.

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Project Drawdown's mission is to help the world stop climate change-as quickly, safely, and equitably as possible. We do this by advancing effective, science-based climate solutions and strategies; fostering bold, new climate leadership; and promoting new climate narratives and new voices.

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Cool Precipitation Citizen Science Monitoring

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Cool Precipitation Citizen Science Monitoring

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CoCoRaHS - Community Collaborative Rain, Hail & Snow Network

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COCORAHS CELEBRATED 25 YEARS IN 2023CoCoRaHS officially began on June 17, 1998. With a few observers along Colorado’s Front Range, we had no idea that the network would become what it is today, with over 26,000 active observers in the United States, Canada, Puerto Rico, the U.S. Virgin Islands, Guam and the Bahamas. A truly remarkable effort by all of you. Here’s to many more successful years on the horizon. To read about the first 25 years of CoCoRaHS click here: History

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https://solutionsthegame.com/

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Sign up to know when it launches on Kickstarter at 20% off!

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https://www.niehs.nih.gov/health/scied/teachers/cchh/index.cfm

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National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences

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Climate Change and Human Health Lesson Plans

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The mission of the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences is to discover how the environment affects people in order to promote healthier lives.

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https://www.sjvair.com/#/

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SJVAir is a network of low-cost air quality monitors providing real-time PM2.5 data to disadvantaged communities across the San Joaquin Valley. SJVAir is operated by a collaborative of non-profit organizations from Bakersfield to Stockton.

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https://crt-climate-explorer.nemac.org/climate_maps/?city=Salinas%2C+CA&county=Monterey%2BCounty&area-id=06053&fips=06053&zoom=7&lat=36.6777372&lon=-121.6555013&id=tmax

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The Climate Explorer allows you to view historical and projected climate variables and assess the impacts of climate change on the things you care about