To: Utah State Board of Education
Tell the Utah Board of Education to support climate science!
All Utah students deserve access to the best science standards available, and to learn the facts about climate change. The "Utah Science and Engineering Education Standards" will help all Utah students receive a 21st century science education, while ensuring they learn the scientific evidence about climate change and other phenomena that will greatly affect their lives.
Why is this important?
The Utah Department of Education is proposing excellent new science standards for students in grades 6-8 that include scientifically accurate climate change education. While the new standards are overwhelmingly supported by science teachers and scientists, including our own local researchers and university educators, vocal anti-science activists are working to thwart them.
These opponents are trying to create the impression that parents in Utah don't want students taught the evidence about human-caused climate change. If they are successful, Utah kids will be kept in the dark about the latest climate research from top scientists.
As a climate researcher, an instructional designer, a university educator, but most importantly as a mother of a 5th grader at a Utah public school, that would be simply unacceptable.
The Utah Board of Education will vote soon on whether to adopt the new standards. Can you help make sure our students and future decision makers are not denied a world-class science education?
Please join me in asking the Utah Board of Education to adopt new school science standards that include climate science!
Sincerely,
Maria Groves M.A (Science and Instructional Technology), Geography PhD Candidate (Paleoclimatology), Mother, and member of Climate Parents
These opponents are trying to create the impression that parents in Utah don't want students taught the evidence about human-caused climate change. If they are successful, Utah kids will be kept in the dark about the latest climate research from top scientists.
As a climate researcher, an instructional designer, a university educator, but most importantly as a mother of a 5th grader at a Utah public school, that would be simply unacceptable.
The Utah Board of Education will vote soon on whether to adopt the new standards. Can you help make sure our students and future decision makers are not denied a world-class science education?
Please join me in asking the Utah Board of Education to adopt new school science standards that include climate science!
Sincerely,
Maria Groves M.A (Science and Instructional Technology), Geography PhD Candidate (Paleoclimatology), Mother, and member of Climate Parents