Climate change

Climate Changes vs Today's Life Styles:

a new challenge for European youth

In spite of being an up-to-date subject in schools around Europe nowadays, climate change is not something pupils are aware of in their everyday lives, nor the social changes they entail. Children need to be taught about it - and that's what science teachers, geography teachers, biology teachers, history teachers all around Europe are trying to do.
But it will certainly be much more relevant to pupils if they can measure climate change themselves, if they can compare results from all over Europe and come up - with their teachers help – with ways to cope with it, identifying real impacts of climate change on a day to day activities.

To be able to do that, our pupils must be ready to deal with climate labs or meteorological stations in a scientific way and teachers must be prepared for the challenges of hands-on science teaching. Another way of stating the same ideas is to say that curriculum knowledge about climate change has to be relevant to our students. Teachers should be able to convey it through experimental activities that both appeal to the common experience of the students and foster scientific attitudes towards the world and their future experience.