Education Partnerships

High School Partners

Climate-related decisions provide extremely rich examples for teaching purposes. Of particular interest to high school students and teachers are the international and cross-cultural aspects of climate related decisions and the way in which our work cuts across psychology, the social sciences, and the physical sciences. CRED has partnered with local high schools to bring our research on psychology, environmental decisionmaking, behavioral science and climate science to high school audiences.

High School for Environmental Studies
HSES is a New York City public school with a curriculum that combines environmentally infused college preparatory courses with applied-learning experiences and hands-on programs that incorporate the rich cultural, economic and social diversity of New York City.
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The James Baldwin School
JBS is a small, community-minded, college preparatory public school in New York City's Chelsea neighborhood. Its mission is to provide a philosophical and practical education for all students, an education that features creativity and inquiry, encourages habitual reading and productivity, as well as self-reflection and meaningful thought.
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Past High School Science Lectures

2008
Why are many people not worried (yet) about global warming?
How can we communicate information in ways that are engaging and motivate action?
Sabine Marx and Victoria Anstead

Can you trust others? Water Resouce Management in Brazil and Behavior Economics
Maria Alejandra Velez

2007
Tragedy of the Commons
Poonam Arora

Deal or No Deal: Game shows, risky decisions and economic theory
Ganna Pogrebna

Little House on the Prairie and How People Dealt with Climate Change in the Past
Roberta Balstad

2006
Framing and Decision Making: 'Rational' Decisions Prove Not to Be
Kerry Milch, Kirstin Appelt

Climate Change and Agriculture in New York State
Brad Lyon

Decision making and endangered turtle preservation in baja mexico
Nicole Peterson

Probability and risky decision making
Hannah Bayer

Malaria prevention and climate prediction in southern Africa
Sabine Marx

Perceptions of Global Warming: Viewing and discussion of 'The Day After Tomorrow' with MA students from EI's Climate and Society program during 'Water Education Week'

2005
Hurricane prediction in southern Florida
Kenny Broad