GIS-T e-learning ModuleTeacher training course "GIS for the Future"
This Web site has been developed to promote the Erasmus + project KA220, no. 2022-1-RO01-KA220-SCH-00008596, “GIS for gist of Europe”.
Climate change is characterised by complexity and uncertainty. In order to equip students to mitigate and adapt to the expected global conditions, schools need to teach the issue with the latest climate change information, especially concerning global warming,.
In curriculum terms, climate change is a challenging socio-scientific issue that demands more than the teaching of content. As a phenomenon, it concerns interdisciplinary knowledge and students find it difficult to draw from the knowledge taught in different school subjects to help explain it.
For students to understand and have adequate information about climate change, they need to understand climate as a system and be able to use and analyse climate information.
GIS can be used to help teach climate by allowing complex data to be visualised. It enhances understanding through interactive maps, showing real-world impacts and patterns. Trends can be analysed and predictions made to develop problem-solving skills.
The GIS-T project sought to:
– integrate Geographical Information Systems (GIS) methods and techniques as part of school curricula in combating global climate change,
– motivate and encourage the participants to use Geographic Information Systems (GIS) in education and training activities, increasing their knowledge and experience and
– Raise awareness of the importance of global cooperation and action in the fight against climate change.
This has been done by creating GIS Case Studies, a GIS for the Future e-Learning Module and GIS Curriculum Hub platform.
Developing education about climate change is complex and interdisciplinary.
Schools have a critical role to play in mitigation of and adaptation to climate change and a responsibility to deliver education about it.
New educational approaches are needed to increase student understanding of climate and their awareness of the current state of the environment.
GIS offers opportunities for exploring credible climate science content and age-appropriate hands-on activities that can be established to focus on local perspectives and not just global averages.
GIS-T communicates climate change through GIS in data, text, pictures, charts and graphs.
The project ensures teachers and students are using data harvested directly from leading scientific organisations. It is hoped that this will help avoid misleading judgments based on misinformation.
Through GIS-T teachers will be encouraged to help students understand and reflect on these climatic descriptions, predictions and communications.
The aim is to help students develop informed argumentation, make well-founded judgements and establish their own standpoints on climate change issues. Informed, critical, and engaged youngsters are vital.
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