Climate change and environmental literacy; instructional materials, model policies.

Board of Education; instructional materialson climate change and environmental literacy; model policies andprocedures for selection. Requires the Board of Education tomake available to each local school board instructional materialson climate change and environmental literacy that are based on andinclude peer-reviewed scientific sources. The bill requires the Boardof Education to develop, adopt, and make available to each localschool board model policies and procedures, based on peer-reviewedscientific sources, pertaining to the selection of instructionalmaterials on climate change and environmental literacy, includinga requirement for any such selected material to accurately portray changes in weather and climate patterns over time, the impacts ofhuman activity on changes in weather and climate patterns, and theeffects of climate change on people and resources.