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Climate Change Backpack®

This popular teaching tool contains (for example) graphs, experiments, a climate change play, an imitation ice core, a compact fluorescent light bulb, and much more. The lessons are designed to expand or contract according to the audience and available teaching time. Staff, docents, and teachers are using the backpack in training programs throughout the Northeast, as well as in 124 National parks, national monuments, and national historic sites. The Collaborative offers climate change backpack trainings to help educators become familiar with the science of climate change and with the materials in the backpack.  The Collaborative also offers a “Train the Trainers” program to people who can instruct others on how to use the backpack most effectively.

 

Purchasing a Backpack

Curriculum materials and activities fit into a rugged, water-resistant, Timberland Company daypack for use in classrooms and in the field.  Competitively priced with similar curriculum kits at $199 per pack. Contact Karin Jakubowski to order yours.

Backpack Presenters Guide

You can download the manual by chapter: (NOTE - To download, right-click on link and choose 'Save Target As')
Introduction (14.5 Mb PDF); Chapter 1 (11.6 Mb PDF); Chapter 2 (13.5 Mb PDF); Chapter 3 (2.9 Mb PDF); Chapter 4 (2.9 Mb PDF); Chapter 5 (7.9 Mb PDF); Chapter 6 (3.9 Mb PDF); Chapter 7 (5.2 Mb PDF); Chapter 8 (8.6 Mb PDF); Chapter 9 (1.9 Mb PDF); Chapter 10 (.6 Mb PDF); Chapter 11 (.7 Mb PDF); Chapter 12 (3.5 Mb PDF); Chapter 13 (21.2 Mb PDF);

NEW: Addendum - Chapters 14-16 ( 9.8 Mb PDF) -In response to an increasing number of requests for more Climate Change Backpack "solution" activities, NESCC member Pat Harcourt of the Waquoit Bay Natural Estuarine Research Reserve worked with several teachers to develop, On the Road, How Big is CO2 and Traveling Food: Calculating the Food Mile.  This project was partially underwritten by the Toyota Corporation.