PBS TeacherLine Wins Global Climate Change Grant Award From NASA

PBS TeacherLine is the recipient of a three-year grant from NASA through their Teaching Climate Change initiative.

Through our project, “Teaching Climate Change (TCC):K-12 Online Professional Development from PBS and NASA”, PBS will develop two fully-online, facilitated, graduate level professional development courses focused on climate change. The courses will be delivered via the existing PBS TeacherLine infrastructure.

One course will target teachers of grades 5-8 and the other will be for teachers of grades 9-12. Both courses will enhance teachers’ content knowledge of climate change, provide guidance about teaching climate change using effective STEM instructional techniques, and facilitate the integration of NASA data, models and other NASA resources into classroom instruction.

The grant runs from August 1, 2009 through July 31, 2012.