{"id":15581,"date":"2020-09-01T15:24:34","date_gmt":"2020-09-01T15:24:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.purdue.edu\/fnr\/extension\/?p=15581"},"modified":"2026-01-24T15:50:31","modified_gmt":"2026-01-24T19:50:31","slug":"new-toolkit-weather-and-climate-lesson-plans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.purdue.edu\/fnr\/extension\/new-toolkit-weather-and-climate-lesson-plans\/","title":{"rendered":"New toolkit makes finding weather and climate lesson plans easy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.purdue.edu\/fnr\/extension\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/IISGToolKit.jpg\" data-rel=\"lightbox-image-0\" data-rl_title=\"IISGToolKit\" data-rl_caption=\"IISGToolKit\" title=\"IISGToolKit\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright wp-image-15633 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/www.purdue.edu\/fnr\/extension\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/IISGToolKit-500x453.jpg\" alt=\"IISGToolKit_capture\" width=\"500\" height=\"453\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.purdue.edu\/fnr\/extension\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/IISGToolKit-500x453.jpg 500w, https:\/\/www.purdue.edu\/fnr\/extension\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/IISGToolKit-768x695.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.purdue.edu\/fnr\/extension\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/IISGToolKit-250x226.jpg 250w, https:\/\/www.purdue.edu\/fnr\/extension\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/IISGToolKit.jpg 900w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a>Illinois-Indiana Sea Grant (IISG) Newsroom:<\/em> With the prolonged pandemic continuing to affect the United States, traditional education has turned toward at-home learning and virtual classrooms to keep students safe. Now more than ever, teachers must be able to find lesson plans for their students that are adaptable to different learning environments and cover topics required by the curriculum. To meet these needs, Illinois-Indiana Sea Grant (IISG) has created a <a href=\"https:\/\/iiseagrant.org\/education\/weather-climate-toolkit\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">weather and climate education toolkit<\/a>\u00a0where teachers can find resources on the topics of weather, climate and climate change.<\/p>\n<p>IISG developed the weather and climate education toolkit with support from the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cgll.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Center for Great Lakes Literacy<\/a>\u00a0and the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/mrcc.purdue.edu\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Midwestern Regional Climate Center<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><em>*Illinois-Indiana Sea Grant is a part of <a href=\"https:\/\/extension.illinois.edu\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">University of Illinois Extension<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/extension.purdue.edu\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Purdue Extension<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>Resources<\/strong><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/research.purdue.edu\/isf\/resources\/climate-resources.php\">Climate Resources &#8211; Institute for a Sustainable Future<\/a><br \/>\n<a title=\"The Nature of Teaching\" href=\"https:\/\/ag.purdue.edu\/extension\/nature\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">The Nature of Teaching<\/a>, Purdue Extension<br \/>\n<a title=\"Trees and Storms publications\" href=\"https:\/\/edustore.purdue.edu\/fnr-faq-12-w.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Trees and Storms<\/a>, The Education Store, Purdue Extension resource center<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/iiseagrant.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Illinois-Indiana Sea Grant (IISG)<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Illinois-Indiana Sea Grant (IISG) Newsroom: With the prolonged pandemic continuing to affect the United States, traditional education has turned toward at-home learning and virtual classrooms to keep students safe. Now more than ever, teachers must be able to find lesson plans for their students that are adaptable to different learning environments and cover topics required [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":64,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[45,971],"tags":[1215,256,1149,402,1069],"class_list":["post-15581","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-howto","category-land-use","tag-climate","tag-fnr","tag-fnr-ext","tag-iisg","tag-weather","audience-for-enthusiasts","audience-for-homeowners","audience-for-landowners","audience-for-professionals"],"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-04-23 01:47:17","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.purdue.edu\/fnr\/extension\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15581","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.purdue.edu\/fnr\/extension\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.purdue.edu\/fnr\/extension\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.purdue.edu\/fnr\/extension\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/64"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.purdue.edu\/fnr\/extension\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15581"}],"version-history":[{"count":17,"href":"https:\/\/www.purdue.edu\/fnr\/extension\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15581\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35287,"href":"https:\/\/www.purdue.edu\/fnr\/extension\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15581\/revisions\/35287"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.purdue.edu\/fnr\/extension\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15581"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.purdue.edu\/fnr\/extension\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15581"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.purdue.edu\/fnr\/extension\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15581"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}