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CLIMATE CHANGE & INTERDISCIPLINARY EDUCATION CAMERON [email protected]
CLIMATE CHANGE & INTERDISCIPLINARY EDUCATION
Allowed all disciplines to engage with environmental issues
Promoted learners to think outside the constraints of a single subject in problem solving
Supported the Curriculum for Excellence through encouraging learners to act as global citizens
Educators are fundamentally important in finding solutions to finding solutions to living with climate instability
EXPEDITION CLASSROOM RESOURCES
Made by university students on overseas independent travel
Peer learning from the field allowed learners to see first hand experiences of climate change
Shows learners how they can achieve similar themselves
� TIMELAPSE VIDEO
SCIENCE EXPRESSIVEARTS EDUCATIONSCOTLAND:GLOWMEET
EXPEDITION CLASSROOM RESOURCES
Adds additional environmental learning outcome to artistic lessons
Encourages learners to think creatively about how utilise their communication skills
Allows learners to engage with global issues in new ways (especially for those with learning disabilities)
�MUSIC VIDEO � ART VIDEO
SCIENCE EXPRESSIVEARTS EDUCATIONSCOTLAND:GLOWMEET
EXPEDITION CLASSROOM RESOURCES
Gave learners opportunity to interact with “experts” from the classroom
Showed that it is not only high profile scientists that can engage with learners…
... All it takes is somebody who has been there and done it!
SCIENCE EXPRESSIVEARTS EDUCATIONSCOTLAND:GLOWMEET
OUTREACH EVENTS
“Meet the Experts” workshop at Glasgow Science Centre
Learners engaged most when they could contribute something – the more they could give, the more they took away
Participatory mock experiments and hands on activities gained most interest
WORKSHOPS ACTIVITIES IMAXCINEMA
OUTREACH EVENTS
Model Glacier Climate Change Canvas
WORKSHOPS ACTIVITIES IMAXCINEMA
OUTREACH EVENTS
90-minute “Opportunities in Geoscience” event
Allowed learners to engage with presenters in films who were one or two steps ahead in their careers
Immersive environment where learners could engage with peers from other schools
� YOUNG EXPLORER VIDEO
WORKSHOPS ACTIVITIES IMAXCINEMA
LEARNING POINTS
Interdisciplinary approach has allowed learners to:- Engage with global issues in new ways- Think creatively about interpreting an issue- Understand importance of teamwork across
different subjects
Effective “experts” are young people who have gone out and experienced an issue being taught themselves and who are a few steps ahead of learners in their careers
AVAILABLE RESOURCES
Geography AmbassadorsA pilot scheme run by RSGS
to organise school visits with
current Geography
students. The scheme
promotes the opportunities
that studying Geoscience can
bring.
www.rsgs.org
Explorers’ StoriesAnonlineopensource
environmentalmedia resource
databaseforeducationandpublic
outreach.Platformforlearners to
engagewithpeerswhohave
conductedtheirownresearchand
travels.
www.explorersstories.org
Education ScotlandPlatformforinterdisciplinary
curriculumbasedlearning
resourcesforglobalenvironmental
issues.Includes‘Weatherand
ClimateChange’,‘ExploringClimate
Change’and‘Readyfor
Emergencies’.
www.educationscotland.gov.uk
CLIMATE CHANGE & INTERDISCIPLINARY EDUCATION CAMERON [email protected]