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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!
www.energiaklub.hu/en