Links & resources about science education
The websites below can quickly help build a wide panel of resources covering the scope of climate change, biodiversity, energy, Polar Regions, environment and sciences in general.
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Beyond Penguins and Polar Bears - Ohio State University
An online magazine about Polar Regions for primary teachers.
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CAFF educational resources
CAFF has produced a series of educational resources to help children and their educators explore and understand Arctic ecosystems and processes. These educational resources consist of a pocket guide for children (aged 8-12) and an accompanying leader's manual for teachers, parents, siblings, and other instructors. Conservation of Arctic Flora and Fauna (CAFF) is the biodiversity working group of the Arctic Council.
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CarboSchools
Partnership between climate researchers and secondary school teachers, with experiment ideas and field activities to encourage pupils to understand their impact on the Earth and reduce CO2 emissions.
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Cimate4classrooms - British Council
Website offering teaching resources about climate change for children aged 11+. It includes interactive data sets showing the latest global and national (UK) climate predictions, interview with experts and case studies.
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Climate - Exploratorium
Website offering long-term, short-term and near-real time data in the form of graphics and maps on the atmosphere, hydrosphere, cryosphere and biosphere. You’ll also get a sense of how scientists study natural phenomena—how researchers gather evidence, test theories, and come to conclusions.
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Climate change - NASA
Website containing information related to climate change (key indicators, evidence, causes, effects, uncertainties and solutions). Besides, you can find satelite images (images of change), videos (climate reel) and education material.
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Climate Change Education.org
Links to resources about climate change for teachers, docents, scientists, students, kids and parents.
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Climate Change: Lines of Evidence videos
The National Research Council made a series of videos explaining how scientists have arrived at the state of knowledge about current climate change and its causes. It demonstrates that human activities are the cause of the current climate change and refute the arguments of climate sceptici.
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Contes pédagogiques
Stories, activities and games about climate change and Polar Regions, for young people between five and twelve years old.
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Discovering Antarctica
Interactive teaching and learning resources on Antarctica developed by the Royal Geograhpical Society (with IBG) in partnership with the British Antarctic Survey and supported by the UK Foreign and Commonwealth Office.
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Discovering the Arctic
Discovering the Arctic is an award-winning education resource for schools, developed by the Royal Geographical Society with IBG, in partnership with the British Antarctic Survey, the UK Foreign and Commonwealth Office and the Scottish Association for Marine Science.
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Engineering, Go For It!
Educative website containing lesson plans, class activities, links and resources, outreach porgrams on math and science for students of grade levels K-5 till 12. A project by the American Society for Engineering Education.
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European Environment Agency
Website containing publications, multimedia and datasets (maps, charts, applications) about Europe's environment (air pollution, biodiversity, climate change, land use, water).
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Explore polar research by clicking on videos! - FRAM
Website with educational videos on Arctic research made by FRAM - High North Research Centre for Climate and the Environment. An interesting video is 'Chasing the rays of the sun: Measuring snow albedo' about a project to measure albedo in Greenland.
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I-CLEEN: Inquiring on CLimate and ENergy
I-CLEEN is a free tool for teachers which supports active and inquiry-based learning experiences on Earth System Science topics. I-CLEEN is a project of MUSE Museum of Sciences, Trento Italy (ENG+IT)
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Ice & Sky
"Wild-Touch uses the dramatic strength of movies to create an unprecedented educational program: from the glaciology pioneers’ epic journey in the Antarctic to the new generation reinventing our future society. From discovering climate change to revealing its impacts on our natural assets. "
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Inquiry to Insight: our acidificating ocean
Free, interactive digital learning tools relating to climate change and ocean acidification, easy to implement it in the classroom.
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ManagEnergy - European Commission
Links to resources about energy for teachers and kids (6-16 years old).
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OpenLearn: BBC Frozen Planet
Open University resources (interactive maps and online course) for the BBC One Frozen Planet series.
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Polar Discovery
The Woods Hole Ocanographic Institution documents science in action from pole to pole. Through daily photo and video essays, they explain how scientists collect data on climate change and glaciers, Earth’s geology, biology, ocean chemistry, circulation, and technology at the icy ends of the earth.
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Red list - IUCN
The IUCN is the organisation which publishes the list of endangered species. Discover their database, with an enormous amount of information on all kind of animal species.
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Satellite images - NASA
A great number of satellite images related with climate change.
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SCAR
Links to resources about various subjects related to Antarctica for teachers and students.
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Science of climate change
On this web site you will find a set of critically reviewed, interactive, web-based learning tools to help students, teachers, science professionals and the general public make sense of the underlying science of climate change.
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Teachers’ Domain
Teachers' Domain is a free digital media service for educational use from public broadcasting and its partners. You’ll find thousands of media resources, support materials, and tools for classroom lessons, individualized learning programs, and teacher professional learning communities.
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TES - Teaching Resources
TES teaching resources are shared across the world, giving great ideas for great lessons. Download classroom resources and lesson plans for every subject and level, every day!
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The other CO2 problem
A animation about the issue of ocean acidification, produced by Ridgeway School (Plymouth, UK) and Plymouth Marine Laboratory. In short: Poseidon is consulted by an octopus scientist to discuss about the current major concern in the ocean. Human beings are asked to stop the CO2 emissions. Secondary school level.
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U4Energy
Primary and secondary schools across Europe are invited to participate in this exciting competition related to saving energy in their schools.
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UNEP/GRID-Arendal
Website containing a maps & graphics library, a picture library and publications related to a wide range of environmental issues. These link is a link to posters explaining the Polar Regions.
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Web resources on climate change
101 sites dedicated to Climate Change and its effect on our environment, from general climate change news to specific scientific information and even social advocacy surrounding humanity’s influence on climate change.
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Xplora - European Schoolnet
A European gateway to science education with news, pedagogical tips & ideas, database of websites and digital learning resources. It is aimed at teachers, pupils, scientists, science communicators and science educators.
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your own electric motor
It has a lot of good information regarding making this simple motor which teaches the kids about electricity!
