Integrating Technology: Lens on Climate Change: Using Place-Based Learning to Explore Climate Change Effects

by: David Oonk, Erin Leckey, Anne U. Gold, Megan Littrell-Baez, Lesley Smith, Susan Lynds, and Jayme Margo-Schneider

This column shares how teachers use technology for assessment, student learning, or classroom management. This article describes a student-driven approach to learning and communicating about climate change, in which students create a short, documentary-style film about environmental changes in their community. This approach combines science learning with engaging storytelling and artistic elements, which makes it appealing and accessible to different types of learners.

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Type Journal ArticlePub Date 10/1/2017Stock # ss17_041_02_86Volume 041Issue 02

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