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PURPOSEFUL
ALTERNATIVES TO
PROTEST:ENGAGING & EDUCATING THE
PUBLIC ABOUT SCIENCE
AUTHOR’S NAME HERE
Suzanne Metlay, Ph.D.
Teachers College, Secondary Education Science
WGU Earth Week 2017
19 April 2017
MAIN IDEAS: • OK to March for Science
• More effective to win hearts (and minds) with fun, hands-on activities throughout the year
• Short-term: Give public positive experiences– Community participation & citizen science
• Public presentations
• Volunteer in classrooms
– Emphasize common ground• Ranchers & farmers care about their land
• Creation care = environmental stewardship
• Long-term: Serve our communities- Advocate for science education
- Support for pro-science candidates- Campaigns from local school board to Congress
- Social media: posts, blogs, chats, retweets, etc.
SCIENTISTS & SCIENCE
EDUCATORSNOT:
- Seeking to convert
- Defending Truth
- Only 1 “right” way
- Anti-Religion
- Always politically liberal
ARE:
- Providing critical thinking
skills
- Seeking Truth
- Diversity is valued
- Includes intellectual diversity
- Anti-Dogma
- Unsupported arguments in
science must be let go
- Many scientists have strong
religious faith
- All over the political
spectrumScience is a human endeavor.
Scientists and science educators strive to understand
and enrich the human experience.
PUBLIC POSITIVE EXPERIENCES
Astronomy Day at Fiske Planetarium, University of Colorado at Boulder
21 AUGUST 2017: ALL AMERICAN
ECLIPSE
FINDING COMMON GROUND
Unnamed source quoted by James Delingpole, 3 Jan 2017, in “Trump Versus the Green Blob—Here’s
How We Know He Means Business”. Retrieved 3 March from Breitbart.com site at
http://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2017/01/03/delingpole-trump-versus-the-green-blob-heres-how-
we-know-he-means-business/
- Image from https://www.facebook.com/SupportRepublican/posts/968238579975338
Mining
Manufacturing
Farming
- Use same
resources
- Need Earth
sciences
Common ground:
- Land heritage &
legacy
- Resource
management
- Future economic
growth
Conserve is at the
heart of
conservative
FAITH IN ENVIRONMENTAL
STEWARDSHIP
ADVOCATE FOR SCIENCE
EDUCATION
SUPPORT PRO-SCIENCE
CANDIDATES
President Nixon (1969-74)
- Established Environmental Protection
Agency (EPA)
- Signed Clean Air Act
President Reagan (1981-88)
- Montreal Protocol
DISAGREE CIVILLY IN PERSON &
ONLINE
Show the benefits of your point of view
– Don’t just knock down others’ arguments
– Build up
– Be concrete, not vague
• Specific examples, such as Great Lakes cleanup
“… it’s possible to disagree while still maintaining basic social
order…. it’s also possible to agree in an uncivil way.” – Karin Kirk
ENGAGE & EDUCATE
REFERENCES & GRAPHICS
CREDITSAronoff, K. (2017). “The Republicans who want Trump to Fight Climate Change.” Retrieved 3 March 2017 from The Atlantic site at https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2017/01/green-republican/512111/
Astronomers Without Borders (2016). “Sending Solar Glasses to Africa for Sep 1 Eclipse”. Image of boys wearing eclipse glasses retrieved 18 April 2017 from https://www.fiatphysica.com/campaigns/sending-solar-glasses-to-africa-for-sep-1-eclipse-astronomers-without-borders
Blessed Earth (2017). Creation Care Links page. Retrieved 3 March 2017 from http://www.blessedearth.org/resources/creation-care-links/
Christianity Today (2017). Creation Care page. Retrieved 3 March 2017 from http://www.christianitytoday.com/ct/topics/c/creation-care/
Curiosity.com (2017). “Citizen Science Puts You on the Research Team”. Retrieved 18 April 2017 from https://curiosity.com/topics/citizen-science-puts-you-on-the-research-team-curiosity/
Delingpole, J. (2017). “Trump Versus the Green Blob—Here’s How We Know He Means Business”. Retrieved 3 March 2017 from http://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2017/01/03/delingpole-trump-versus-the-green-blob-heres-how-we-know-he-means-business/
- Image from https://www.facebook.com/SupportRepublican/posts/968238579975338
Ellison, G. (2017). “Trump Budget Eliminates Great Lakes Cleanup Funds”. Retrieved 19 April 2017 from Michigan Live site at http://www.mlive.com/news/index.ssf/2017/03/trump_budget_eliminates_great.html
Francis, Pope (2015). Laudato Si. Retrieved 3 March 2017 from http://w2.vatican.va/content/francesco/en/encyclicals/documents/papa-francesco_20150524_enciclica-laudato-si.html
Kirk, K. (2017). “Contrasting Styles in Online Climate Change Posts”. Retrieved 21 March 2017 from http://www.yaleclimateconnections.org/2017/03/contrasting-styles-in-online-climate-change-posts-pt-2/
KSDE (2017). Science Education word jumble. Retrieved 19 April 2017 from Kansas State Department of Education site at http://community.ksde.org/Default.aspx?tabid=5975
March for Science (2017). Logo retrieved 18 April 2017 from https://www.marchforscience.com/
NAGT (2017). “Pedagogies for Community Service”. Retrieved 18 April 2017 from National Association of Geoscience Teachers site at http://nagt.org/nagt/profdev/serving/pedagogies.html
Nordgren, T. (2016). National Parks Eclipse poster. Retrieved 18 April 2017 from http://www.tylernordgren.com/2017-great-american-eclipse/
RepublicEN (2017). ClimateEye Alerts by State. Retrieved 18 April 2017 from http://www.republicen.org/alerts
StarNET (2017). Moore Foundation grant to libraries. Graphic retrieved 18 April 2017 from http://www.starnetlibraries.org/2017eclipse/
Tabuchi, H. (2017) “In America’s Heartland, Discussing Climate Change without Saying ‘Climate Change’.” Retrieved 3 March 2017 from New York Times site at https://www.nytimes.com/2017/01/28/business/energy-environment/navigating-climate-change-in-americas-heartland.html
