SOCAN at SOREEL August Institute

City of Rogue River School District teacher Marie Reeder illustrates an easy low-cost demonstration of how carbon dioxide causes atmospheric warming.

The Southern Oregon Regional Environmental Education Leaders (SOREEL) annually offer their August Institute as a series of workshops providing local teachers with hand-on materials they can use in their classrooms.  SOCAN collaborated with City of Rogue River School District teacher Marie Reeder to offer a workshop entitled “Connecting Climate Change to Outdoor Education in the Rogue Basin.”   While Alan Journet and Kathy Conway focused on the science of global warming, Marie Reeder offered exercises and materials demonstrating carbon dioxide as a warming gas, and how regional forest systems are likely to change during the coming decades.