Wright Center Developed Teaching Materials

The International Environmental Change Workshop Series is a series of 4-day teacher workshops on global environmental change to be presented during the summers of 2003, 2004, 2005, and beyond. Each workshop in the series is co-sponsored and co-directed by the Wright Center for Innovative Science Education and will focus on environmental change from the perspective of one of Earth¹s spheres: the cryosphere, the biosphere, the hydrosphere, the the lithosphere, and the atmosphere.

These workshops will enable teams of teachers (K-12) to investigate environmental change through classroom instruction and hands-on involvement in current scientific field and/or laboratory research. Workshops will take place at locations across the United States: cryosphere, summer 2003; biosphere, summer 2004; hydrosphere, summer 2005; hydrosphere, summer 2006; cryosphere, summer 2007 (Glacier National Park).

Numerous lesson plans that include games, power point presentations, photographs, and more were developed at these workshops by the teachers and the Wright Center staff.