SOCAN Individual & Collective Action Page

Handouts for Events

Conscious Living Fair April 27, 2019

• Greenhouse Footprint Calculator
• Upcoming SOCAN Meeting, Bugged by Global Warming: Insects in a Changing Climate on May 28, 2019
• Climate Trends and Projections (Jackson & Josephine Counties)
• Master Climate Protector Information & sign up
• HB 2020 information
• SOCAN Website – Projects (scroll down)

OLLI Community Lecture April 26 2019

Cimate Urgency & Oregon Efforts – April 26th 2019 Medford HEC A PDF file of the presentation

Living on Your Land Conference – RCC, Grants Pass (April 27, 2019)

• Upcoming SOCAN Meeting, Bugged by Global Warming: Insects in a Changing Climate on May 28, 2019
• Climate Trends and Projections (Jackson & Josephine Counties)
• Master Climate Protector Information & sign up
• HB 2020 information
• SOCAN Website – Projects (scroll down)
• Climate summaries 2^nd and 3^rd districts

Rogue Valley Earth Day – ScienceWorks, Ashland (April 20, 2019)

• Bugged by Global Warming SOCAN Monthly Meeting (May 28, 2019). SOCAN Calendar
• HB2020 – Creates Oregon Climate Action Program
• What Can I Do? Individual and Collective Action
• Rogue Basin Trends and Projections
• Master Climate Protector
• SOCAN’s website
• SOCAN’s Facebook page

Earth Day Events: SOU (April 16, 2019), RCC Medford & Grants Pass (April 18, 2019)

• Bugged by Global Warming SOCAN Monthly Meeting (May 28, 2019). SOCAN Calendar
• HB2020 – Creates Oregon Climate Action Program
• Climate Change in Oregon’s 2nd Senate District
• SOCAN Projects (scroll down to CURRENT DIRECTION)
• Rogue Basin Trends and Projections
• Master Climate Protector
• Internship Description 2019
• SOCAN’s website
• SOCAN’s Facebook page

Rogue Fish Migration Day (April 6, 2019)

• Bugged by Global Warming SOCAN Monthly Meeting (May 28, 2019). SOCAN Calendar
• What Can I Do?
• Climate Change in Oregon’s 2nd Senate District
• HB2020 – Creates Oregon Climate Action Program
• SOCAN’s website
• SOCAN’s Facebook page

SOREEL August Institute Table Top Session (August 14, 2018)

Materials used in this presentation can be adapted by teachers. pdf versions of the Power Point slides are included here. For questions or to get the Power Point versions, contact Alan@socan.info

A) Basics: How does incoming solar radiation drive global warming? Slides | Story Cards

B) Jackson County Trends & Projections: What are the primary local trends and projections? Slides | Story Cards

C) Biomes – Distribution and impact: How does climate change affect the distribution of natural systems, especially local tree species and agriculture? Slides | Story Cards

SOREEL Resource Fair (August 13, 2018)

• SOCAN’s Resource Page for Teachers (Includes Lesson Plans on Climate Change)
• The Teacher-Friendly Guide™ to Climate Change  This book includes both the basics of climate change science and perspectives on teaching a subject that has become socially and politically polarized. The focus audience is high school Earth science and environmental science teachers, and it is written with an eye toward the kind of information and graphics that a secondary school teacher might need in the classroom. Print copies are available for purchase here and a PDF version is available as a free download.
• Rogue Environmental Education – Rogue Basin Partnership List of groups that are available to help teachers 
• Next Generation Science Standards that connect to Climate Change Topics
• Drawdown: 100 solutions to reduce global warming  (Order the book or read online)
• Rogue Basin Climate Trends and Projections
• The Reluctant Radical – SOCAN’s August Meeting (Tues, August 28 at 6 pm at the Medford Public Library)

An Inconvenient Sequel (Varsity Theatre August 15, 2017)

• What We Can Do  Some things that we can do individually to reduce greenhouse gas emission

SOREEL Resource Fair (ScienceWorks Aug 14, 2017)

• CURRICULUM MATERIALS DEVELOPED BY LOCAL EDUCATORS
  • Ruch Community School (November, 2016) these plans were developed for 7-8th grade students (60 minutes). Title: Global Warming Basics, Impacts, Causes, & What we can do
    • Ruch community school plan
    • Ruch community school Power Point
  • Ashland Middle School (October, 2016) these plans were developed for the 7-8th grade students (30 Minutes). Title: Global Warming Basics & Local Climate Change Impacts
    • Ashland middle school plan
    • Ashland middle school power point
  • Please Don’t Paint Our Planet Pink – Greenhouse gases and where they come from (Grades K-5)
  • Can Plants and Animals Deal with Climate Change? Grades 3-8 by Mary Ehlers
    • Lesson Plan
    • Questions to be used with Lesson
    • Story Cards Information
    • Story Cards Images
  • Griffin Creek – Climate Change – What we can do Lesson Plan (Grades 4-6)
    • Griffin Creek-Power Point (as pdf to accompany Lesson Plan)
  • Teacher’s Activity Guide to Renewable Energy Grades 4-12 by Kathy Nguyen
  • Climate-Change-Inquiry-Project-Lesson-Plan by Brook Jaentsch (High School)
    • Data Source – Climate-change-and-forest-fire-occurrence
    • Data Source – Effects-of-ocean-acidification-on-the-immune-response-of-the-blue-mussel-Mytilus-edulis
    • Data Source – Testing-alternative-models-of-climate-mediated-extirpations
  • Water Quality Testing Lesson Plan by Mickey Laney Jarvis (High School)
• Climate Change in the Oregon 3rd Senate District: History, Projections, and Consequences.
• Rogue Basin Watershed Climate Trends and Projections
• SOCAN’s Education Resources
• SOCAN’s Master Climate Protector