PINEMAP and Project Learning Tree
Secondary Module for Science Educators
Southeastern Forests and Climate Change
Jennifer Hubbard-Sánchez, Kentucky State University
Project Leads: Martha Monroe, Annie Oxarart
School of Forest Resources and Conservation
University of Florida
Pine Integrated Network: Education, Mitigation, and Adaptation project (PINEMAP) is a Coordinated Agriculture Project funded by the USDA
National Institute of Food and Agriculture
Project Learning Tree
• National environmental education program
– www.plt.org
• Curriculum materials and professional development
• Secondary Modules
– Middle/High School Courses
– Issue focus
• New secondary module
– Southeastern Forests and Climate Change
– Partnership with PINEMAP
Pine Integrated Network: Education, Mitigation, and Adaptation project (PINEMAP) is a Coordinated Agriculture Project funded by the USDA
National Institute of Food and Agriculture
Southeastern Forests and Climate Change
• Focus on Southeast
• 14 activities to explore
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Climate Change and Forests
Forest Management and Adaptation
Carbon Sequestration
Life Cycle Assessment
• Developed in partnership with
PINEMAP
• Activities follow PINEMAP
research framework
PINEMAP
• Pine Integrated Network:
Education, Mitigation, and
Adaptation Project
• USDA, National Institute of Food
and Agriculture
– Coordinated Agriculture Project
• Integrated research, extension,
and education
Pine Integrated Network: Education, Mitigation, and Adaptation project (PINEMAP) is a Coordinated Agriculture Project funded by the USDA
National Institute of Food and Agriculture
PINEMAP Research = Module Framework
14 activities, separated into five sections
1. Climate Change and Forests
- Climate science and policy
- Southern forest responses to projected climate changes
2. Forest Management and Adaptation
- Strategies landowners can use to adapt to changes
- Genetic breeding activities to identify trees that may thrive in the future
3. Carbon Sequestration
- Carbon Cycle
- Reducing atmospheric carbon through forest management
4. Life Cycle Assessment
- The role of product life cycles in reducing carbon emissions
- The role of consumers in making wise purchases
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Solutions for Change
- How students and consumers can be part of solutions
Pine Integrated Network: Education, Mitigation, and Adaptation project (PINEMAP) is a Coordinated Agriculture Project funded by the USDA
National Institute of Food and Agriculture
Educational Strategies
• Engaging teaching methods
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Role play
Web quest
Data analysis
Videos and slide presentations
Cooperative learning exercises
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Debate
Small group discussions
Service-learning action project
Field work
• Increasing
– Student knowledge
– Systems-thinking and decision-making skills
– Confidence that individual and community actions
can help address climate change.
From USDA FS Tree Atlas; forest
ecosystems at present
Pine Integrated Network: Education, Mitigation, and Adaptation project (PINEMAP) is a Coordinated Agriculture Project funded by the USDA
National Institute of Food and Agriculture
Learning Theory: Socio-scientific Issues Research
• Socio-scientific issues (SSI): controversial social issues which relate to
science; open-ended problems which have multiple solutions.
e.g. genetic engineering, climate change, animal testing for medical purposes
• Goal of SSI: Cultivate a scientifically literate citizens who are able to apply
evidence-based scientific content knowledge to real-world socioscientific
scenarios.
• SSI research shows that teachers could utilize SSI to foster understanding
of science content and consequences involved in everyday scientific
issues.
• Students learn the nature of science and formulate their own informed
decisions and understand those whose views differ from themselves in the
context of a SSI.
Zeidler, D. L., Sadler, T. D. Simmons, M. L. & Howes, E. V. (2005). Beyond STS: A researchbased framework for socioscientific issues education. Science Education, 89(3), 357-377
Pine Integrated Network: Education, Mitigation, and Adaptation project (PINEMAP) is a Coordinated Agriculture Project funded by the USDA
National Institute of Food and Agriculture
Learning Theory: Problem-based Learning Research
• Students learning centers on a complex problem that does not have a single
correct answer or solution.
• Students work in collaborative groups to identify what they need to learn in
order to solve a problem.
• PBL is an instructional method in which teacher acts to facilitate the
learning process rather than to provide knowledge.
• The goals of PBL include helping students develop
- flexible knowledge
- problem-solving skills
- self-directed learning
- collaborative skills
Hmelo-Silver, C.E. (2004). Problem-based learning: what and how do students learn?
Educational Psychology Review 16, 3, 235-266
- intrinsic motivation
Pine Integrated Network: Education, Mitigation, and Adaptation project (PINEMAP) is a Coordinated Agriculture Project funded by the USDA
National Institute of Food and Agriculture
Special Features
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Research connections
Systems thinking
STEM and NGSS
Social science connections
Website
Participatory process
Pine Integrated Network: Education, Mitigation, and Adaptation project (PINEMAP) is a Coordinated Agriculture Project funded by the USDA
National Institute of Food and Agriculture
Research Connection
• PINEMAP is an integrated research activity
– 50 faculty and 45 graduate students across 11 universities
– Synthesizing research and making it available to stakeholders
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This module helps teachers make sense out of current forest research
Videos from students and faculty about their research
Activities to use data bases, interpret graphs, collect data
Researchers critiqued materials
Pine Integrated Network: Education, Mitigation, and Adaptation project (PINEMAP) is a Coordinated Agriculture Project funded by the USDA
National Institute of Food and Agriculture
Systems thinking
• Systems thinking
 Every activity has a systems
thinking connection
 5 activities have
supplemental activities on
Tree Stress
systems
 Two activities use systems
thinking tools
Available
Nutrients
Tree
growth
Tree disease
Available
Water
Risk of tree
disease
High-Intensity
Wildfire
Risk of wildfire
Understory
fuel load
Sample causal system diagram used to
predict impacts of climate change
Forest
Density
Pine Integrated Network: Education, Mitigation, and Adaptation project (PINEMAP) is a Coordinated Agriculture Project funded by the USDA
National Institute of Food and Agriculture
STEM and NGSS
• What science can tell us
• How scientists work
• How scientists work with data
– Graphing, modeling, databases
• How forest managers can use research findings to change
practice
• Engineering connection: Life Cycle Assessment
• Mathematics: data analysis, graph interpretation, tree
measurement
Pine Integrated Network: Education, Mitigation, and Adaptation project (PINEMAP) is a Coordinated Agriculture Project funded by the USDA
National Institute of Food and Agriculture
Social Science Connections
• Why do people disagree about climate change?
– Common facts but different assumptions
– Despite disagreement, how can communities move forward?
• What can people do about it?
– Consumer can add GHG emissions to “green” product choices
– Forest managers can increase resilience
Pine Integrated Network: Education, Mitigation, and Adaptation project (PINEMAP) is a Coordinated Agriculture Project funded by the USDA
National Institute of Food and Agriculture
Product Life Cycle
Participatory Process
• Assessment of SE science teachers
– Focus on data analysis, systems thinking, and problem solving
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Advisory Board
Activity testing and revision
Expert review
Formative evaluation
Researchable questions
Summative evaluation
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14%
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44%
Middle School
Science
Biology and AP
Biology
Env and AP Env
Science
Earth Science
Other
Over 60 teachers participated in the formative evaluation in Fall 2013
Pine Integrated Network: Education, Mitigation, and Adaptation project (PINEMAP) is a Coordinated Agriculture Project funded by the USDA
National Institute of Food and Agriculture
Research findings to date
• Science teachers want quality materials to help them navigate this issue
– Especially using climate change as an example of the nature of science
• Students are motivated to learn about climate
– And climate change can increase interest and knowledge about other science concepts,
such as carbon cycle
Pine Integrated Network: Education, Mitigation, and Adaptation project (PINEMAP) is a Coordinated Agriculture Project funded by the USDA
National Institute of Food and Agriculture
Our research findings to date
• Students become more hopeful about climate after exposure to four
activities
– Information is empowering
– Forests can be resilient
– Consumers can be part of the solution
• Student evaluation suggests:
– Knowledge
– Systems-thinking skills
– Hope that individual and community actions can help address climate change
Pine Integrated Network: Education, Mitigation, and Adaptation project (PINEMAP) is a Coordinated Agriculture Project funded by the USDA
National Institute of Food and Agriculture
Walk Through the Website
– Enables teachers to find links to resources,
download slide presentations and handouts
– Provides introduction and “training” for
those who cannot attend a workshop
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Narrated and video overviews
Narrated “tour” of each activity
Check Your Knowledge quiz
Resources and background
PDF of all materials
Word and PPT versions of instructional materials to
modify
www.sfrc.ufl.edu/extension/ee/climate
Pine Integrated Network: Education, Mitigation, and Adaptation project (PINEMAP) is a Coordinated Agriculture Project funded by the USDA
National Institute of Food and Agriculture
1. Climate Change and Forests
- Stepping through Climate
Science
- Clearing the Air
- Atlas of Change
2. Forest Management and
Adaptation
- The Changing Forests
- Managing Forests for Change
- Mapping Seed Sources
3. Carbon Sequestration
- Carbon on the Move
- Counting Carbon
4. Life Cycle Assessment
- The Real Cost
- Adventures in Life Cycle
Assessment
- Life Cycle Assessment Debate
5.
Solutions for Change
- The Carbon Puzzle
- Future of Our Forest
- Starting a Climate ServiceLearning Project
www.sfrc.ufl.edu/extension/ee/climate
Pine Integrated Network: Education, Mitigation, and Adaptation project (PINEMAP) is a Coordinated Agriculture Project funded by the USDA
National Institute of Food and Agriculture
Kentucky Adaptations
• Rationale
• Process
• Usage
Pine Integrated Network: Education, Mitigation, and Adaptation project (PINEMAP) is a Coordinated Agriculture Project funded by the USDA
National Institute of Food and Agriculture
Questions?
www.sfrc.ufl.edu/extension/ee/climate
For more information, please contact: [email protected]
Pine Integrated Network: Education, Mitigation, and Adaptation project (PINEMAP) is a Coordinated Agriculture Project funded by the USDA
National Institute of Food and Agriculture