Why Climate Wisconsin
Stories in Climate Wisconsin can be the seeds for growing robust climate education experiences in classrooms and community spaces. Explore the quick start chart to see what’s in the collection, and then dig into the educator guides for extension activity ideas, discussion questions, essays, and standards alignment.
Climate Wisconsin Educator Guides
Adaptation & Mitigation
An animated overview of strategies for addressing climate change with examples of actions that humans can take as individuals and as a society.
Extreme Heat
Elijah Furquan channels his creativity as a spoken word artist into giving voice to the effects of extreme heat on his urban community.
Farming
Kyle Niedfeldt Zenz shares about the challenges pests and disease pose to raising crops on her family’s farm.
Fly Fishing
Peter Cozad, a fly fishing guide, talks about the increasing frequency of severe weather events that are impacting trout streams.
Forestry
Marshall Pecore describes the forest’s economic and cultural value to the Menominee and invasive species that now threaten the forest’s health.
Ice Fishing
Tom and Norma Marchant share about their enjoyment of winter ice fishing season, which is being made shorter by warming temperatures.
Phenology
Nina Leopold Bradley talks about how keeping records of the changing timing of plant and animal life cycles makes climate change visible.
Sugaring
Kat Becker and Tony Schultz recount the seasonal practice of maple sugaring and how changing conditions impact the sap supply.
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