Teaching climate report published

The bicycle model on climate change education is GREAT!!!!
It's IMPORTANT to create enthusiasm among our students.

Deirdre HODSON Ulrike PISIOTIS

We have to establish access to tools and resources that allow a scientific data-based school education response to climate change education.
But FIRST we (teachers, educators...) must be trained (courses, webinars, workshops....) in order to be able to use innovative approaches to teaching and digital technologies which integrate climate and environmental into our curricula.

Thanks for sharing, Karl! Sophie's words remind me of a similar question that one partner teacher shared with our organisation, Choisis Ta Planète. One 10-year-old child had once asked her whether life wouldn’t be more beautiful if all humans were dead as humans think they are the best and destroy nature, animals, wildlife and all the beauty on Earth ... The teacher said she was unable to go back to her maths lesson after such terrible words! Moving towards action collectively transforms climate anxiety into positive energy and hope to envision sustainable futures (Green Comp framework).

Seeing the damage caused by climate change can be a very bleak experience, but that hasn’t dampened our outlook.
"I feel very positive about the future,” *Dr Niall McCann explains, “because I spend so much time talking with young people - our future leaders - about nature, the environment, and humankind’s place in the world. The ‘Greta generation’ care deeply about the environment and are rightly holding those in power to account for their poor stewardship of the planet.”
*He is a biologist, explorer and conservationist.
I agree with him. Some might say I am a hopeless optimist but that’s a necessary ingredient if one works with youth and loves nature.
Justine, I totally agree when you say that "climate anxiety" must be transformed into "positive energy"

Hi Maria - glad you found the report interesting, I agree completely with you about the need to train teachers and in the last part of the Teaching the Future project we will create open access training for teachers on accessing and using data and how to use the data dashboard.
We have a training course introducing the use of open data in schools https://d3.youthmetre.eu/modules/ and I also refer you to the 15 lesson blueprints which are lessons made by teachers that aim to connect data to the everyday lives of students https://d3.youthmetre.eu/lesson-blueprints/ - starting with "who am I?" "where am I?" "what am I buying?"
We also made a database of usable open data sources and tools https://d3.youthmetre.eu/open-data-tools/ and some case studies from teachers we were working with.

In the next stage the project will publish a digital dashboard of climate data for teachers and schools, using datasets recommended by teachers and educators as well as a number of climate scientists and experts we have interviewed. We plan to publish the first version of the dashboard in late-February 2023.

We are hoping to involve a group of teachers and educators to advise us about the first versions of this data dashboard, both in terms of content but also usability, before then establishing trials in schools and with pupils.

If you are interested in being involved in this activity please contact me and we will add you to our list of contacts, advisors.

Later in 2023 we also would like secondary teachers - and their students - to use the dashboard and evaluate it usefulness in classroom situations. Again if this is of interest we would like to hear from you.

My email is eurogeomail@yahoo.co.uk

Hoping you would like to get involved in 2023

@Justine, yes we have, at all costs, to avoid anxiety among young people, they have already suffered significantly as a result of the Covid-experience.
We need to create positive learning experiences but also those learning that is active and participative.
There also needs to be strong science and research - hence our focus in the last 10 years on data - we need to enthuse the next generation of scientists.

Karl, thank you very much. I've had a look at https://d3.youthmetre.eu/modules/
and I saw that the training course is in different languages and I have the choice to do it in my mother tongue (Spanish). GREAT!!!