Teaching Climate

Inspiration and cooperation
The website provides teachers with inspiration for ways of teaching climate issues and presents a number of themes with climate-related teaching programmes. These programmes are based on a Danish learning perspective, focusing on pupil participation and on learning as part of a democratic process, and school classes are encouraged to cooperate across frontiers.
Climate change is a global challenge, and the objective of the website is to inspire and motivate teachers the world over to think of ways of including climate issues in their teaching.

Share your ideas!
Teachers from all over the world are invited to upload their own innovative teaching programmes to the website, thereby putting their schools on the “climate map”.
The website is found on: teacherscop15.dk

Full article: Teacherscop15.dk - Climate in education


MORE INFORMATION
Climate Education 2009 - Ministry of Education 

EMU - Climate change in the classroom
EMU is the common portal for the educational world in Denmark. On the EMU website you will find a theme dedicated to climate change. This theme is aimed towards pupils and students in the primary schools and upper secondary schools and links to relevant websites about climate change on EMU as well as other Danish and international online resources that can be utilized when teaching climate change. You can find the website on EMU (in Danish): www.emu.dk/tema/klima/

www.ubuportalen.dk  
www.ubuportalen.dk is published by the Danish National Commission for UNESCO in cooperation with and financed by the Ministry of Education.
www.ubuportalen.dk was established in 2005 in connection with the UN Decade of Education for Sustainable Development 2005-2014. On this website you can find source references, links, articles, suggestions for further reading, examples of teaching, and of practical applications on how to work with sustainable development in the formal as well as in the non-formal education system.

In the site’s various themes a broad approach to the concept of sustainable development has been applied. For example, it is the duty of the education sector to ensure that children and young people achieve sufficient knowledge and skills within natural and social science subjects, as well as cultural subjects in order for them to be able to participate in democratic debates about the distribution of the resources of the world.
The themes on www.ubuportalen.dk also deal with problems in relation to climate changes. Here you will - among other things - find links to educational games and other teaching materials which provide ideas for discussions about each individual citizen’s possibility of having an influence on development in relation to the climatic changes we are facing. www.ubuportalen shows the interaction between environmental, economic, social and cultural aspects.

Conferences and events
Leading up to the main event, the Ministry of Education have in some shape or form taken part in a number of conferences and events focusing on Climate Education:

School-company conference focusing on partnerships between schools and companies within the climate area: This conference features some big Danish companies including Grundfos, Danfoss, Lego, Vestas, DONG Energy and Arla Foods. Hosted by The Danish Society of Engineers

Nordic Climate Day
All primary, lower secondary and upper secondary schools in the Nordic countries were invited to take part in this event on November 11th and show how they are taking responsibility for the climate.

Klimacup
A number of climate-related competitions attached to selected subjects in lower, prmary and upper secondary schools as well as further education. The site is in Danish and can be viewed at: www.klimatecup.emu.dk