Teaching The Future is based on the need to tackle the climate emergency and ecological crisis. This action was initiated when students from around the world protested at national government’s lack of action on the climate crisis. One of their key demands was for suitable education to teach young people about the urgency, severity and scientific basis of the climate crisis.
To address these needs, the project has undertaken an analysis of curriculum and the potential for using scientific data in schools. It created a climate data dashboard taking scientific data of past and predicted future climate scenarios and presents it as a unique teaching resource. This gathers open climate data and scientific information which can be used by schools to support learning and teaching climate in schools. An online, open access teacher training course focuses on teaching about climate change and presents a toolkit of interesting and useful teaching resources. Find out more https://teachingthefuture.eu/
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Thank you for sharing, Karl. What a cool initiative. My friend, who teaches English to vocational students – including future farmers - is the one developing their curriculum, and she always selects material and fiction that explores themes related to the climate crisis. It’s her way of encouraging them to reflect more deeply on environmental challenges, which I think is cool, especially since this group in Denmark has historically tended to see climate issues as something associated with "lefty talk." I’m wondering if she might be able to use tools or data like this in her teaching, despite it being of a literary fiction nature.
Hi Trine, thanks for the comment/feedback - yes this is the "scientific.data" collected from research and includes satellite imagery information - especially in constructing the more details European data which come from the Copernicus initiative.
We mapped and visualised the information in a format which makes sense to non-experts.
The training module (Module 4) will be a help to your friend as it is an geo-enquiry exploring the data. The students could for example be encouraged to use information to write a newspaper story .... https://teachingthefuture.eu/module-4/
We had a great time with teachers in the project developing the resources and with scientists creating the dashboards which show the warming over different periods .... so it demonstrates - educators can and shoild work with scientists ....
Thank for sharing, it will share it with her right away!
Hi again, Karl, I have just sent a message to your email. Best, Trine
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