Paleoclimate Clues: Problem-Based Learning Digital Media for Climate Science

This paper presents an educational system that models global climate change research in a problem-based learning (PBL) framework. Paleoclimate Clues is a web-based application that will engage high school science teachers in generating and analyzing climate data from coral fossils. The design of Paleoclimate Clues aims to engage learners not only in NASA-related climate change data, but in the process of how that data is collected, analyzed, used to make conclusions about changing climate, and with what level of uncertainty, all embedded in a PBL educational framework.