Integrating community outreach into Next Generation Science Standards for prospective science teachers' sustainable climate action skills
Human behavior that impacts climate change is increasingly uncontrolled, so it is very worrying for the survival of future generations. The weak climate action skills of prospective science teachers and their daily activities that have the potential to cause climate change need to be addressed. This study aims to integrate community outreach into the three dimensions of the Next Generation Science Standards so that prospective science teachers are skilled at preventing climate change. This study uses a mixed-method embedded experimental with a quasi-experimental design. Community outreach is integrated into the three dimensions of NGSS for the climate action skills of prospective science teachers by learning from habits in the community for climate change prevention practices. The study results showed that prospective science teachers are increasingly skilled at preventing climate change through planting trees and sorting organic and inorganic waste to project economic potential. Integrating community outreach into the three dimensions of NGSS is a new strategy to prepare prospective teachers who are aware of being agents of sustainable climate change prevention.
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