Tackling Climate Change

The way we use energy directly affects the issue of climate change, and CCEF has teamed up with Clean Air-Cool Planet to increase awareness of that interconnection. The Clean Energy Climate Solutions Project is a two-step initiative aimed at testing, evaluating, and adapting educational materials that will teach elementary and secondary school students in Connecticut about clean energy as an important solution to climate change.

The project is managed by the Connecticut Science Center Collaborative under the direction of Clean Air-Cool Planet, with a CCEF grant. The project is expected to educate tens of thousands of Connecticut museum-goers a year and motivate them to use clean energy to combat climate change.

The Plan

Step One – Test off-the-shelf clean energy education materials at 10 informal education centers such as science centers and museums.

www.sciencecentercollaborative.org

Beardsley Zoo                                                   Dinosaur State Park
(203) 394-6565                                                 (860) 529-8423
www.beardsleyzoo.org                                     www.dinosaurstatepark.org

Children’s Museum, West Hartford               Eli Whitney Museum
(860) 231-2824                                                 (203) 777-1833
www.thechildrensmuseumct.org                   www.eliwhitney.org

Connecticut Audubon                                       Peabody Museum
(860) 559-0244                                                 (203) 432-3775
www.ctaudubon.org                                          www.peabody.yale.edu

CRRA Trash Museum                                      Stepping Stones Museum
(860) 757-7765                                                 (203) 899-0606
www.crra.org                                                     www.steppingstonesmuseum.org

Discovery Museum                                           Talcott Mountain Science Center
(203) 372-3521                                                 (203) 677-8571
www.discoverymuseum.org                           www.tmsc.org


Step Two – Evaluate the effectiveness of the materials when they are used by educators to teach that clean energy is a solution to climate change.

Expansion – Based on the outcome of Step One and Step Two, CCEF may supply additional funding for educational materials at 10 more science centers and museums in Connecticut.