NEW BRUNSWICK, N.J. — Middle and high school teachers from Belleville, Jersey City, Kearny, Neptune, Newark, and New Brunswick honed their climate change knowledge and made connections to local experts in a four-day Climate and Data Literacy summer workshop on the Rutgers-New Brunswick campus.
With the recent incorporation of climate change into New Jersey’s K-12 Student Learning Standards across all subject areas, New Jersey educators are preparing their students to understand climate change and its impacts locally to globally, and to act in informed ways.
Teachers learned about local climate change data, conditions and impacts and explored NJ ADAPT digital tools, with Rutgers experts Dr. Marjorie Kaplan of the Rutgers Climate and Energy Institute and NJ Climate Change Resource Center, and Lucas Marxen and Dr. James Shope of the New Jersey Climate Change Resource Center. They also sampled the Raritan River while aboard the RV Rutgers with Dr. Carrie Ferraro of the Rutgers Science Explorers Program.
