The Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) is offering free online course on Rise-up: Climate Change Education. This course explores the basic science behind climate change and presents the tools to teach it in a positive, engaging and participatory way.
In this seven-week course, applicants will learn how to work with primary and secondary-level students to help them explore climate change topics through the use of interactive and engaging activities. This course will start on April 27, 2017.
Course At A Glance
Length: 7 weeks
Effort: 3-4 hours pw
Subject: Education and Teacher Training
Institution: Inter-American Development Bank and edx
Languages: English
Price: Free
Certificate Available: Yes, Add a Verified Certificate for $25
Session: Course Starts on April 27, 2017
Providers’ Details
The Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) works to improve lives in Latin America and the Caribbean. Through financial and technical support for countries working to reduce poverty and inequality, we help improve health and education and advance infrastructure. Our aim is to achieve development in a sustainable, climate-friendly way.
About This Course
Our climate is changing rapidly, and now more than ever we need to be ready to act and prepare the next generation to do the same.
This is a hands-on course that makes use of videos, lesson plans and online games developed by the IDB’s “Rise-Up: Education Against Climate Change” initiative with examples coming directly from Latin America and the Caribbean. It is intended to assist elementary and high-school teachers or teachers-in-training in the launch of climate change education and actions to mitigate and adapt to climate change in their school community.
Why Take This Course?
This course explores the basic science behind climate change and presents the tools to teach it in a positive, engaging and participatory way. The course also introduces some of the ethical and social issues around climate change.
Learning Outcomes
- Basic science behind climate change
- Main social and ethical issues behind climate change
- Main consequences of climate change to water, energy, environment, soil and our health
- What we can do individually, as a school and as a community to live a more sustainable and healthy life
- How to use games, debates, experiments, role-playing, newspapers and other tools to support and enhance learning
Instructors
Juan Paredes
Juan Paredes is responsible for the technical due diligence of renewable energy projects at the bank, including wind and solar energy. He has advised different governments in the region on topics such as the grid integration of variable renewable energies, smart grids and regional electricity integration.
Emma Naslund-Hadley
Emma Näslund-Hadley is an education specialist in the Education Division at the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) in Washington DC. She leads and collaborates in the design and execution of a wide spectrum of education sector projects. She is the coordinator of the Bank’s efforts to improve mathematics and natural science education.
Requirements
None
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