SOCAN Individual & Collective Action Page
Handouts for Events
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)
- Changing the Climate Conversation: NNOCCI Reframe Cards
Spring & Summer 2018 Events
July 4th in Ashland
Wild & Scenic Rivers and Trails (June 16)
Community Seed Swap (March 31)
Rogue River World Fish Migration Day Festival (April 7)
Pear Blossom Street Fair (April 13-14)
Living on Your Land (April 14)
SOU Earth Day Extravaganza (April 17)
RCC Earth Day (April 19)
Rogue Valley Earth Day (April 21)
- What I Can Do?
- Footprint Calculator
- Rogue Basin Climate Trends and Projections
- Upcoming Meetings & Activities
- Master Climate Protector 2019 Flyer
- Master Climate Protector Website
- Internship Description 2018
- Oregon Primary Election – Vote
- SOCAN Senate District 3 Candidate Forum: Climate Challenges (video)
- Jackson County Democrats Senate District 3 Candidate Forum (video)
Bear Creek Salmon Festival (October 7, 2017)
- Rogue Basin Watershed Climate Trends and Projections
- SOCAN’s Education Resources (includes Lesson Plans)
TGIF Teacher Paraty (September 15, 2017)
- Climate Change in the Oregon 3rd Senate District: History, Projections, and Consequences.
- Rogue Basin Watershed Climate Trends and Projections
- SOCAN’s Education Resources (includes Lesson Plans)
- SOCAN’s Monthly Meeting, September 26, 2017, Monarch Musings: One of Nature’s Climate Trackers!
SOREEL Presentation – Connecting Climate Change to Outdoor Education in the Rogue Basin (OSU Extension August 16, 2017)
- Story of Global Warming Activity – Plan
- Global Warming Activity – Images (pdf)
- Demonstrating the effects of carbon dioxide
- co2generatorsampledata
- Printed Handout from session
- Link to Education Resources Page
- Link to Master Climate Protector Information
An Inconvenient Sequel (Varsity Theatre August 15, 2017)
- What We Can Do Some things that we can do individually to reduce greenhouse gas emission
- SB1070 Updated Clean Energy Jobs Bill full text
- SB1070 Clean Energy Jobs Bill 2017 Two page Summary August
- Oregon Legislative Update
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
- 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
- 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
- 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)
- 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
