Climate Youth Labs (CY-LABS): Elevating Youth Voices to Promote Climate Resiliency in Minnesota and Wisconsin

Principal Investigator: Kathryn Guimond
Funder: NOAA Environmental Literacy Program

Short Summary:

The Climate Youth Labs (CY-LABS) project builds youth participation in local climate resiliency efforts through support for educators and students in Minnesota and Wisconsin. The UCAR Center for Science Education developed and facilitated two teacher professional development sessions for the CY-LABS project educators. These sessions shared place-based examples of environmental change and impacts focused on strengthening educators' expertise using data with students. We also shared a climate data visualization module, which was developed for the project by UCAR’s COMET program, as a tutorial for teachers using climate data in the secondary classroom. We worked in collaboration with the University of Wisconsin-Superior, the University of Minnesota’s Hennepin County 4-H program, and the Native Sun’s Solar Cub program in the Red Lake Nation. Support was supported by the NOAA Environmental Literacy Program Award number NA23SEC0080011.