TEACHING CLIMATE CHANGE SCIENCE AT INDIANA UNIVERSITY NORTHWEST

In the Fall Semester 2013 the Department of Geosciences at Indiana University Northwest introduced a new course GEOL-G476 Science of Climate Change into the curriculum, mainly designed as an elective course with a goal to attract not only science majors but also students from other fields. Our university joined the AMS Climate Studies Diversity Project, and I attended the AMS Climate Studies Course Implementation Workshop in Washington, DC, from May 18^th to 23^rd, 2014, as well as 95^th AMS Annual Meeting and Workshop in Phoenix, AZ, from January 4^th to 8^th, 2015. During the workshops and meeting presentations I learned quite a lot about various aspects of Climate Change from invited experts' lectures, from scientists in NOAA facilities we visited on field trips, and from talks on various climate change topics. In addition to the AMS workshops I also finished a four week online teaching course in Spring Semester 2014, which provided training and online class management in Canvas. In 2015 Summer Session II, which lasted from June 29^th to August 9^th, I taught GEOL-G476 Science of Climate Change, undergraduate course which had seventeen students enrolled, concurrently with a LIBS-L503 Science Seminar, graduate course with two students enrolled. Both classes were online and used the AMS Climate Studies course package: Kaufmann’s e-text, e-Investigation Manual, and AMS Real Time Climate Portal. This poster will present syllabi, lectures, organization of quizzes, investigations, discussions and replies, as well as excerpts from student’s work in these courses.