The classroom resources developed under the ESA Climate Change Initiative (CCI) aim to raise students' awareness of climate change and show its impacts around the world.
Ten resource packs tailored to the curricula for primary and secondary education in Europe will be freely available from 2020, in five European languages.
The educational resources cover climate topics that the Climate Change Initiative has identified based on analysis of Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics topics in eleven educational systems in Europe. Each educational resource consists of a teacher guide, student worksheets and links to resources for additional readings.
The learning activities employ engaging stories, physical experiments and the Climate from Space web application, enabling students to explore aspects of climate change.
Primary classroom resources
- Is ozone good or bad? The role of human pollution in destroying the ozone layer.
- The water cycle – The effect of global warming on flood and drought
- Country under threat – The role of global warming in sea level rise and flooding of coastal cities and small islands
Lower secondary education
- A passage opens – The threat of melting sea-ice due to global warming
- The carbon cycle – How increased emission of carbon dioxide is affecting forests, oceans and our lives
- Taking the pulse of the planet – How satellite data helps our understanding climate change
Upper secondary education
- Taking the pulse of the planet – How satellite data helps our understanding climate change
- Urban hotspot – How urban areas are increasing the frequency of heat waves
- Biodiversity and habitat loss – How climate change is causing biodiversity and habitat loss
- Planetary heat pumps – How global warming is modulating the role of oceans as heat regulator
- Feeding the growing world – How climate change is threatening food security and crop production