Climate-focused teacher workshop
This annual climate-focused teacher workshop is typically held in mid-November for 2-hours over two days (4-hours total). Participants learn about the newest environmental research, relevant hands-on classroom activities, and schoolyard participatory science projects.
Check back in November 2026
for Teacher Workshop announcement and registration
Who should participate?
Any teacher or educator interested in monitoring their outdoor environment with students or applying the workshop’s content in their classrooms.
Workshop goals
Learn about the changing environment, local impacts, and adaptation and mitigation strategies
Gain experience with vetted, hands-on classroom activities, including exploring causes of sea level rise, comparing weather and climate, understanding greenhouse gas behavior, combining art and data, and more
Practice participatory science protocols* that can be delivered in your schoolyard habitat, including monitoring seasonal changes, calculating carbon storage, mapping heat islands, and measuring precipitation
*Protocols are sourced from The Phenology Network, Budburst, CoCoRaHS, and GLOBE.
Participants leave with
Printed resources in hand and access to the Google Drive Resource Library
New knowledge of local environmental impacts and research
Activities and protocols to do with students
An understanding of how NH Sea Grant can support you moving forward
Interested in joining the listserv or receiving related educational resources? Reach out!
Gracie Ballou
Coastal Education Program Manager
Background
This teacher workshop evolved from the Climate in the Classroom program which started in 2016 as a partnership between UNH Extension, NH Sea Grant, and Strafford Regional Planning Commission, in partnership with two local 5th grade teachers. The program was designed to engage both students and their family members in learning about climate. In 2019, NH Sea Grant and UNH Extension collaborated with the Great Bay National Estuarine Research Reserve’s Teachers on the Estuary (TOTE) program to hold a teacher workshop.
This teacher workshop is made possible in part by funding from the NHDES Coastal Program, Great Bay 2030 program through NH Charitable Foundation, and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.
If you need accommodation to participate in our programming, please contact Gracie Ballou at gracie.ballou@unh.edu, 603-862-0187, or TTY: 7.1.1 (Relay NH). Given ample time, we will make any reasonable effort to meet your needs, including language access services if requested, which will be provided free of charge. The University of New Hampshire Cooperative Extension is an equal opportunity educator and employer. UNH, U.S. Dept. of Agriculture, and New Hampshire counties cooperating. Direct inquiries to unh.civilrights@unh.edu.
