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Philip Bell
@philipbell.bsky.social

Learning Sciences professor fighting for a thriving, just world🌿 Settler on Coast Salish Lands in Dxʷdəwʔabš (Seattle)🌿 University of Washington

#SciEd and #ClimateChange Work: STEMTeachingTools.org & ClimeTime.org

http://faculty.washington.edu/pbell .. more

Philip Bell may refer to:Philip Bell (1590–1678) Philip Alexander Bell (1808–1889), American newspaper editor Philip Ingress Bell (1900–1986), British barrister and judge Philip W. Bell (1924–2007), American accounting professor .. more

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For the new followers interested in #ClimateChange Ed, here's our collection of open ed resources on how to #TeachClimate

🌿 stemteachingtools.org/sp/climate-l...

These professional learning resources have been co-designed by researchers & practitioners over the past decade. See what you think!

Also, here are the slides and resources from a new PD session developed by Kelsie, Deb, and James Kostka that opens up dimensions of the resource and shares instructional examples and other supporting resources:

➡️ drive.google.com/drive/folder...
S6: Youth As Climate and Environmental Scientists: Collecting, Analyzing, and Reporting on Local Community Climate and Environmental Justice Data - Google Drive
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Kelsie Fowler was the lead author and @drdeblmorrison.bsky.social and I were co-authors on this resource. Please repost and share it through your networks in ways that make sense.

We are immensely grateful to the teams involved in the important work to keep public data and tools public: Public Environmental Data Project, Data Rescue Project, End of Term Archive, Silencing Science Tracker, Climate Deregulation Tracker, STAT, ESRI, ClimateLiteracy.earth, and Climate.us.
climateliteracy.earth
ClimateLiteracy.earth

As with all of our STEM Teaching Tools, you can get to the more polished PDF formatted version from the landing page of the resource. It is a great format to share with others!

stemteachingtools.org/assets/lands...

Climate data and literacy are necessary for making informed decisions as we adapt to a shifting climate.

Educators should use these databases and visualization tools to engage students in justice-centered, place-based investigations of climate and environmental phenomena.

NEW RESOURCE: The current administration took down many federal #EnvironmentalJustice & #ClimateJustice databases.

Our new @stemteachingtool.bsky.social lifts up various efforts that have republished those vital data & visualization tools:

➡️ stemteachingtools.org/brief/106

#SciEd #TeachClimate
Statement from @health.nationalacademies.org "...based on our body of work on this topic and the overwhelming scientific consensus, we support the statement that vaccines do not cause autism."
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National Academies - Statement on CDC’s Updated Vaccine Guidance
National Academies respond to CDC’s updated vaccine guidance, offering scientific context and clarity on vaccine safety.
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At the National Science Teaching Association (NSTA) meeting in Minneapolis, our @stemteachingtool.bsky.social team from UW Seattle put on 13 sessions on equity & justice-focused approaches to #SciEd & #ClimateChange ed

All slides & resources are available here:
stemteachingtools.org/news/2025/ns...

Hi @teachnexttmb.bsky.social: Thanks for your interest in the session. You can find the slides and resources for it here:

drive.google.com/drive/folder...

Also, all of our sessions from NSTA can be accessed from this page: stemteachingtools.org/news/2025/ns...
STEM Teaching Tools at NSTA in Philadelphia (Minneapolis), 2025 : StemTeachingTools (en-US)
stemteachingtools.org

Today (Thurs) at #NSTAFall25, we start off at 8am with a session that explores 21 different priority areas of climate & environmental justice. Come explore how to teach about a new topic in Room 102A! Our full schedule is below.
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At NSTA in Minneapolis, the UW Seattle @stemteachingtool.bsky.social team & our colleagues will host 13 sessions on EQUITY-focused #SciEd and #ClimateChange education. Join us!

Please share and help spread the word through your networks!

#NSTA in Minneapolis Nov 12-15
➡️ my.nsta.org/conferences/...

Had a powerful launch into #NSTAFall25 today at the Climate Café. I talked to dozens of educators & ed leaders working to teach about #ClimateJustice & #EnvironmentalJustice.

If you are at NSTA this week, come join us in Room 102A to keep it going. Detailed schedule below!
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At NSTA in Minneapolis, the UW Seattle @stemteachingtool.bsky.social team & our colleagues will host 13 sessions on EQUITY-focused #SciEd and #ClimateChange education. Join us!

Please share and help spread the word through your networks!

#NSTA in Minneapolis Nov 12-15
➡️ my.nsta.org/conferences/...

Are you at NSTA in Minneapolis? Come join us today (Wed) at the Climate Café! It runs from 1 to 3pm (in the STEM Showcase). Our STEM Teaching Tools team is co-hosting the café with Climate Generation. #TeachClimate #ClimateChange #ClimateJustice #NSTAFall25

As with all of our @STEMTeachTools, you can get to the more polished PDF formatted version from the landing page of the resource. It is a great format to share with others! #NGSSchat #NGSS #SciEd

➡️ stemteachingtools.org/assets/lands...

Thanks to Nancy Price for being the lead author on this one! 🙏

PLS SHARE #SciEd #NGSS #STEAM

The UW @stemteachingtool.bsky.social team just published another NEW TOOL. This one shows how to use ART PEDAGOGIES as a powerful platform for students to learn about and take action on #ClimateJustice and #EnvironmentalJustice!

➡️ stemteachingtools.org/brief/105

Thanks, @emanwela.bsky.social! I saw that you explored our page of climate resources. Some of our newer ones aren't listed there yet, like this Climate Justice Ed framework:
stemteachingtools.org/brief/97

You can find other new resources at the bottom of this page:
stemteachingtools.org/tools
What is climate justice learning? : StemTeachingTools (en-US)
stemteachingtools.org

I'm grateful for the co-authors of this important resource—and for pulling together all of the supporting resources.

Thank you Kelsie Fowler, Cristina Betancourt, Renée Shank & Saraswati Noel! Fabulous work!
kermit the frog from the muppet show is standing in front of a red curtain .
ALT: kermit the frog from the muppet show is standing in front of a red curtain .
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As with all of our @stemteachingtool.bsky.social , you can get to the more polished PDF formatted version from the landing page of the resource. It is a great format to share with others! #NGSSchat #NGSS #SciEd

➡️ stemteachingtools.org/assets/lands...

PLS SHARE #SciEd #NGSS

The UW @stemteachingtool.bsky.social team just published a NEW TOOL on how the words we use to describe the ecological world matters! Since language reflects & constructs power we should root our words in environmental justice & flourishing.

➡️ stemteachingtools.org/brief/104
One analytical model shows that, as of November 5th, the dismantling of U.S.A.I.D. has already caused the deaths of 600,000 people, two-thirds of them children. https://newyorkermag.visitlink.me/jUzNSc
The Shutdown of U.S.A.I.D. Has Already Killed Hundreds of Thousands
The short documentary “Rovina’s Choice” tells the story of what goes when aid goes.
newyorkermag.visitlink.me
60 yrs ago today (Nov 5, 1965), the 1st US government report to warn about climate change was published.
"Restoring the Quality of Our Environment" included warning of C02 build-up and sea-level rise/melting ice-caps.

allouryesterdays.info/2025/11/04/6...

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At NSTA in Minneapolis, the UW Seattle @stemteachingtool.bsky.social team & our colleagues will host 13 sessions on EQUITY-focused #SciEd and #ClimateChange education. Join us!

Please share and help spread the word through your networks!

#NSTA in Minneapolis Nov 12-15
➡️ my.nsta.org/conferences/...

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What does it mean to tell the story of climate change on Indigenous terms? Read about Beyond Fires & Floods (BFF): Indigenous Narratives in an Era of Extremes at @moaubc.bsky.social moderated by @rickharp.bsky.social  https://f.mtr.cool/gziohzbuhs
Last Thurs, the Trump admin announced it is opening the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge to oil and gas drilling, which sits on Inupiaq and Gwich’in land. The Gwich’in consider the land sacred and rely on the caribou migration.
Trump administration finalizes plan to open pristine Alaska wildlife refuge to oil and gas drilling
The Trump administration has finalized a plan to open the coastal plain of Alaska's Arctic National Wildlife Refuge to oil and gas drilling, renewing long-simmering debate over whether to drill in…
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Come get your Master's or PhD degree with us! We have a new program strand focused on LAND AND WATER EDUCATION FOR SOVEREIGN FUTURES!

Come explore how land- and water-based pedagogies that uphold Indigenous sovereignty support environmental & #ClimateJustice.
education.uw.edu/academics/pr...

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I actually don't really care if AI is useful/interesting/good for some things in education actually - it is besides these things clearly a big problem already that maybe need listing yet again:
Lol the Nobels can't even acknowledge women's contribution to discovery. But sure let's acknowledge The Machines.
Six of the nine Nobel Prize winners this year work in the U.S.
Three of the six were born outside the U.S., which is the pattern most years. No country has benefited more from welcoming immigrants from around the world.
www.nobelprize.org
The official website of the Nobel Prize - NobelPrize.org
The Nobel Prize rewards science, humanism and peace efforts. This is one of the central concepts in the will of Alfred Nobel, and it also permeates the outreach activities that have been developed for...
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Look at her go!
#invertebrates 🌿

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🧪 NEW STUDY: Air pollution increases risk of Lewy Body Dementia, the 2nd most common dementia after Alzheimer’s*

Your reminder that air pollution is just another name for fossil fuel combustion byproducts.

*linked to air pollution in previous studies

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www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Lewy body dementia promotion by air pollutants
Evidence links air pollution to dementia, yet its role in Lewy body dementia (LBD) remains unclear. In this work, we showed in a cohort of 56.5 million individuals across the United States that fine p...
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