Climate Change in Education

Energia Klub Ada Ámon

Budapest - August 26, 2010

35th Annual Conference of the Association for Teacher

Education in Europe

Motto

The most informed age group is the young ones (18-25y).

This is the generation which consumes and wastes loads of natural resources.

This is a challenging paradox for YOU!Which way to go?

Starting earlier? Going deeper?

Energia Klub is…

…a value driven THINK&DO tank…roots in the environmental movement

Fields of activities - climate change - energy efficiency - renewable

energy sources - conventional energy sources - energy policy -

Our target groups

General awareness raising:

• Households

• Municipalities

• Decision makers

Specially for education:

• Schools (primary and secondary)

• Teachers

• Environmental educators

What to “teach” about Climate Change?

Giving facts on climate changeExplaining the causes and impacts/effects

of climate changeExplaining the environmental aspects of

energy consumption (we focus on energy)

Giving solutions on energy related issues (energy efficiency, renewable energy sources)

“To whom it may concern”

• Difficult to squeeze into the curriculum as an extra topic.

• School divides everything into subjects.• Traditionally climate change is discussed

in the framework of nature sciences (physics, biology, chemistry, geography).

• What about math, history, literature, languages, art?

Integrating into „new” subjects

Math – calculation with climate data, electricity, gas consumption data, understanding and creating graphs

English – climate change, renewable energy resources as a theme

History – the history of CO2 and human activities, changes of energy sources used

(Visual) art – creating pictures of wished future, visualizing problem and solutions

Drama – simulation games on problems and solutions

Energia Klub’s educational tools

Collection of exercises: “Where is energy?”booklet, lesson descriptions, experiments,

games

Background materials: Thematic posters: printed & online interactive posters

Renewable Poster Renewable Poster renewable poster

Energy Efficiency at Home Energy Efficiency at Home energy efficiency

Climate Change Climate Change Climate

Overhead slides

Project work: “Check it out!”handbook and teachers guide

Understanding, sensing, caring, acting……for kindergarten, primary and secondary school

Cooperative learning methodsPerson centred approachFacilitate and activate what the child can doConnection to the realityDeveloping other skills

(problem solving, analysing, presentation, discussions, argumentation…)

Thank you for your attention!

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