COMMUNICATING CLIMATE CHANGE (C3)

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Connecting Global Change to Local Impacts

• Americans view climate change as a challenge that is distant in both location and time

• Challenge: How can we make climate change local and immediate?

• Solution: Create programming around local impacts of climate change

C3 Team

• Arizona Science Center, Phoenix• Bishop Museum, Honolulu• Chabot Space & Science Center,

Oakland, California • EdVenture, Columbia, South

Carolina • Franklin Institute, Philadelphia • Maryland Science Center, Baltimore • Sciencenter, Ithaca, New York

• Museum of Discovery and Science, Ft. Lauderdale, Florida

• New Mexico Museum of Natural History and Science, Albuquerque

• New York Hall of Science, Queens • Reuben H. Fleet Science Center,

San Diego, California • Saint Louis Science Center, St.

Louis, Missouri

12 Science Center and Museums and Research Partners:

C3 Programming

How can these types of programming support each other?

• Exhibits• Curriculum Development• Teacher Training• After School Programs• Lecture Series• Community Conversations• Citizen Science

Chabot Space & Science CenterOakland, California

• Citizen science and community conversation topics overlapped

• Science partner acted as presenter and facilitator at community conversation

• Reinforced connection between global and local

Saint Louis Science CenterSt. Louis, Missouri

• Citizen scientists acted as experts and facilitators during a community conversation.

• Teens who participated in the citizen science program had a richer community conversation experience than those who did not.