“Shine/Fossils in the Classroom” represents a partnership between the two disparate University of Colorado Boulder departments and the Jefferson County School District that enabled the authors to coproduce an embodied exploration of fossils, energy, and climate for 4th/5th grade students in Colorado. This project addresses the current lack of embodied participatory learning that enhances retention and understanding of climate change. Over the past year, CU faculty, staff, and students teamed up with administrative staff and teachers in the Jefferson County School District to pilot the first draft of this new curriculum. In the next year we will continue piloting our revised draft of the lessons with a diverse set of 4th and 5th grade JeffCO teachers and document the coproduction framework that enabled this work to be successful.