Free Online Course From Future Learn: Teaching Climate Change

Future Learn Platform offers a free online course: Teaching Climate Change. On this course, you’ll learn how to successfully teach climate change to secondary school students aged 11-14 years old. You’ll learn about the key facts behind the climate crisis, before going on to develop practical learning activities for your pupils.

This course is intended for:

Course duration:

3 weeks, 3 hours

Course topics:

• What is climate change?
• Climate change in the taught curriculum.
• Climate science projects for students, such as ESA Climate Detectives.
• How climate change is measured using satellite data.
• Mitigating climate change.

Course objectives:

By the end of this course learners will be able to:

• Describe what climate change is and what it is not and improve your subject knowledge of how space technology is used in climate science.
• Identify misconceptions within your class and approaches to teaching the science of climate change.
• Produce a plan to support students to undertake a climate change investigation.
• Apply the techniques used by scientists to collect and analyse data on climate change within the classroom.

About Future Learn:

They offer a diverse selection of courses from leading universities and cultural institutions from around the world. These are delivered one step at a time and are accessible on mobile, tablet, and desktop, so you can fit learning around your life. Also, they believe learning should be an enjoyable, social experience, so their courses offer the opportunity to discuss what you’re learning with others as you go, helping you make fresh discoveries and form new ideas.

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