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Climate change crisis is a complex environmental, scientific, individual, and social situation that earth planet faces at the same time that its development and technification.
Students are involved on news related to current threads and future catastrophes in which will be experienced if humanity keeps on emitting pollutant gasses that retain heat under atmosphere or any other harmful actions that cause environmental damage.
But are students as citizens a cause of or may also be solution to climate change?
Scientifically dealing with climate crisis presents a great challenge for students and offers teachers from any subjects a perfect opportunity to foster and nurture students’ full potential through different learning approaches. This project will help to mitigate future problems with their current researches, making meaningful their learning process and enable them to take ownership over their own learning and results.
Aims
- To fortify the importance of critical thinking and enhance problem-solving.
- To foster curiosity, creativity, love for learning and scientific method applying.
- To motivate students to actively take part in environmentally friendly actions and see their positive impact on real life.
- To open their minds to different ways of living and thinking
- To build social, emotional, scientific, and meaningful skills while improving their digital competence.
This project is also aimed at emphasizing our student’s role in their learning process, giving them the autonomy to explore, ask questions and share ideas.
Teachers will facilitate students to celebrate the
international climate change summit in February on the Twinspace as a
scientific congress to share their researches and eco-actions in motion.
Work process
Starting with a driving question, students will research causes and consequences of climate change and how it impacts on health, economy, and any other field of education (from any subject is possible to address climate change at school). Students will calculate their Carbon Footprint, be aware of how their lifestyle influences the environment and will propose actions, tips, change of attitudes, ways of acting that offset their Carbon Footprint on Earth.
Our initial
timeline could be modified according to the project path but
approximately:
- Up to September: Teachers pre-planning, September: welcome to eTwinning.
- October: Background knowledge brainstorming. Climate change and CO2 Footprint calculation. Climate change Data sets.
- November-December: Addressing climate change in our lessons.
- January-February: What can we do to become green? Simply, short, clear, and visual solutions and actions to help students and society become greener.
- International climate change summit on Twinspace 2021
Expected results
- Inquiry, digital, environmental and research skills improvement.
- Eco-awareness in motion.
- Eco-friendly Twinspace.
- Eco-digital products to foster a low carbon lifestyle.
- Eco-magazine and Eco-Blog to share and disseminate our footprint improvement.
