Eugene and Dr. Steve Westlake (Cardiff University) were recently guests on the podcast, Your Money, Your World, where the focus of the episode was “Understanding Our Carbon Footprints”. We decided to rebroadcast the episode because we felt that many of our listeners would find the conversations interesting and relevant to our own understanding of climate change and how we teach this subject.
Read MoreEugene and Matt talk to Katie Worth about her new book and what her extensive research can teach us about climate change education in the U.S.
Read MoreEdReports.org recently published their review of Green Ninja’s middle school science program. Their report and Green Ninja’s publisher response can be found here. In our publisher response to the EdReports score, we outline the shortcomings of the EdReports rubric and why our program scored low using their methodology.
Read MoreGreen Ninja will be hosting a workshop for our Fall Air Quality Program to improve your understanding of air pollution science and prepare you to teach a unit on air pollution using real-time air quality measurement tools. Sign up now!
Read MoreEugene and Matt have recently helped create a new series of free and open lessons on climate change called Saving the Monarchs. In this episode, Eugene and Matt discuss the inspiration for creating these lessons, some of the design decisions they made along the way, and how teachers can use these materials in their own classrooms.
Read MoreLast Friday, the Green Ninja team hosted our 8th Annual Green Ninja Film Festival! Our goal for this annual event is to encourage young adults to create films about environmental solutions. Despite another challenging semester, students were able to come together and create great films!
Read MoreHappy Teacher Appreciation Week! To celebrate, your friends at Green Ninja are giving away three of Green Ninja's Sustainable Classroom Prize Packs—filled with tools and treats to help you and your students create a cleaner and healthier planet for everyone.
Read MoreAs we observe Earth Day, there are some hopeful signs. The U.S. government recently hosted a climate change summit and pledged significant reductions in carbon emissions. Companies from around the world are acknowledging the urgency of climate change, with about a quarter of all Fortune 500 companies having credible climate targets for the year 2030.
Read MoreWe are saddened and hurt by the rise in hate crime targeting the Asian American and Pacific Islander (AAPI) community. Our team at Green Ninja wishes to express our solidarity with the AAPI community.
Read MoreDuring this episode, Eugene and Matt are joined by a special guest - Tashanda Giles-Jones. Tashanda is a teacher at the Environmental Charter Middle School in Inglewood, California, and she'll be sharing some of the work she's done helping students become leaders in their community through outdoor and environmental projects.
Read MoreIn this special episode, Eugene mainly listens in to a small group of teachers who share their experiences and offer advice for how to engage students within this challenging remote learning environment.
Read MoreIn our recent two-part podcast episode with Professor Okhee Lee, I found so much of what she shared both innovative and inspiring. Although you can set aside time to listen to the podcast here, I thought I’d share my top 10 favorite quotes from the episodes to provide folks with a flavor of our discussion.
Read MoreIn this episode, our special conversation with Dr. Okhee Lee continues now with a focus on language learning and the role it should play in our science classrooms.
Read MoreIn this episode, we'll talk with Okhee Lee about NGSS and get her unique perspectives and advice surrounding teaching and learning.
Read MoreHigh school senior Kaushik Tota describes results from a research project to study the attitudes of elementary school students towards climate change, sustainability, and personal and social responsibility with regards to the environment.
Read MoreAt the end of the school year, Green Ninja hosts a film festival which is a fun end of the year project to give students something to look forward to.
Read MoreLast Friday, the Green Ninja Team hosted our very first Student Environmental Action Event! Our goal was—and is—to showcase and celebrate student achievement towards improving air and environmental quality and how that learning can be extended beyond the classroom.
Read MoreIn this episode, Matt and Eugene talk with Paul Andersen, an educational consultant, a Montana-based science teacher for 20 years, and most famously the creator of hundreds of science YouTube tutorials that have been viewed by millions of teachers and students.
Read MoreOne of my students asked me about the difference between phenomenon and phenomena and it made me pause. Of course, this has to do with a singular phenomenon vs multiple phenomena.
Read MoreIn this episode, we'll talk about the election, from our own vantage points, and from what we expect to see with a new government for science and education.
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