When a city experiences much warmer temperatures than the neighboring rural areas, this is known as an "Urban Heat Island"(UHI). Join us for three full-day, in-person training sessions as we explore the “Urban Heat Island Effect” and consider how to use it as a way for students to become citizen scientists and environmental justice activists. Using a classroom set of heat mapping tools (yours to keep!), we'll explore surface and air temperature data and discuss how students can design their own investigations to collect data to identify at-risk neighborhoods, evaluate the effectiveness of different action strategies, and design ways to present their findings. This program is led by Master Teacher and Climate Education Leadership Team member Sarah Slack, recent winner of the Math for America Muller Award. The program is open for 5th-10th grade educators in New York City.
The February 2023 session is the second meeting in the series. Support for this event comes from the Center for Sustainable Futures at Teachers College, and the Learning the Earth with Artificial Intelligence and Physics (LEAP) Science and Technology Center (STC) at Columbia University.
Open to NYC public school teachers and Teachers College students.
To request disability-related accommodations, contact OASID at oasid@tc.edu, (212) 678-3689, as early as possible.