Educational book: 4th Grade-Adult
As a mother-daughter writing team, Katie and Emily Creegan collaborated on this story. Emily contributed the educational and scientific components. Deborah Imhoff, Educational Specialist and Consultant, contributed the NGSS lesson plans.
- A highly engaging anthropomorphic story
- A teaching tool on real world climate change and environmental restoration strategies
- Climate change and environmental concepts and definitions
- Several associated lesson plans: targeted middle grade (however, applicable for many levels)
- Authors: Katie and Emily Creegan
- COST: $15.99 per book and sliding scale for bulk orders.
Journal: 4th Grade-Adult
How You Can Change Our World – the Climate Change Environmental Strategies Journal with STEM Standards: A Guide for Fourth Graders to Adults and Educators
- Guided/student self-led environmental restoration log and journal with topics and icons
- Guided learning activities and guidelines for both students and educators
- Definitions of environment, climate change, and climate science
- Ecosystem and environmental restoration concepts and prompts
- Climate change mitigation and resilience guidelines, including composting tips
- Inspirational environmental quotes
- Authors: Katie and Emily Creegan
- COST: $15.99 per journal and sliding scale for bulk orders.
Lessons and Instruction
Dr. Creegan’s background:
- Innovative courses developed and instructed: Johns Hopkins University Center for Talented Youth (Baltimore, MD): Climate Change and How to Save our World.
- La Jolla Country Day School (San Diego, CA): innovative problem-solution project-based ecosystem, recycling, and waste management lesson development.
- Dona Ana County (New Mexico): developed and published, Hydroponics, Water Conservation and Me
- New Mexico State University (New Mexico) course developer and co-instructor: Climate Change Strategies for a Changing World (project-based student empowerment)
- California State Polytechnic University, Pomona (Pomona, CA) course developer and instructor: On-Farm Composting and Technical Soils
Areas of Expertise/Services:
- Novel lesson plan development (available upon request)
- 4th-University level project-based curriculum and lesson development
- STEM and Next Generation integrations
- Potential for homeschool integration
- Real-world climate change mitigation and resilience
- Regenerative agriculture and landscaping
- Local and international factors
- Human-cultural-economic dynamics
- Ecosystem restoration
- Real world waste, energy, and conservation audits and applications