| Details | Are you looking for ways to make the effects of climate change on the oceans meaningful, relevant, and accessible to your students? In this webinar for 4th–8th grade educators, you'll speak with Smithsonian marine biologist Dr. Nancy Knowlton about her career studying changes in the oceans. You'll also get a hands-on walkthrough of a suite of teaching and learning materials featuring Knowlton's work (s.si.edu…); an online 3D interactive that recreates a reef food web, classroom activities around corals, climate change, and sea life, and more. Dr. Nancy Knowlton is the Sant Chair for Marine Science at the Smithsonian’s National Museum of Natural History and a scientific leader of the Census of Marine Life. She wrote the book, Citizens of the Sea, to celebrate the ten years of the Census. She founded the Center for Marine Biodiversity and Conservation at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography of the University of California, San Diego. In 2017, she founded the Earth Optimism movement in an attempt to highlight the success of large- and small-scale actions taken to better the Earth. Knowlton has devoted her life to studying, celebrating, and striving to protect the multitude of life-forms that call the sea home. This is the first in a series of three “Smithsonian Teacher Training: How to Be a Scientist” webinars featuring the research and contributions of Smithsonian women scientists. Live Closed Caption and ASL will be available. Webinars will be archived for later viewing. |
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