Existing educational resources to teach energy & meteorology issues

[Alberto Troccoli]

Alberto Troccoli

July 23, 2019 at 2:39 pm #9670

Action point from the Kick-Off meeting (23/7/2019) for all SIG members: Collation/research of ‘effective’ educational resources to teach meteorology, climate, energy and interlinked issues. 

The focus is to collate existing resources that help to improve and enhance energy and meteorology education in young people in particular. Resources that are specific to a particular place, context, issue or culture would be particularly of interest.

Please include a web-link if the resource is available (or obtainable) online.

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[Alberto Troccoli]

Alberto Troccoli

August 2, 2019 at 11:48 am #9806

I will add to this list as I come across more good examples! – Kit 

General resources:

• Royal Meteorological Society’s MetLink (United Kingdom): https://www.metlink.org/
  • Categorises resources by age group, syllabus and topic
• Geographical Association collation of climate change resources (United Kingdom): https://www.geography.org.uk/teaching-resources/weather-climate-change/investigating-climate-change 
• United Nations CC:Learn (Global): https://www.uncclearn.org/learning-resources 
  • Also is piloting a teacher ‘accreditation’ programme, although from experience it’s a bit buggy at the moment: https://www.unccteacheracademy.com/

Tools:

• IEA Statistics Browser (Global): https://www.iea.org/statistics/
  • Can drill-down into specific countries, exploring data such as energy supply, renewables etc…
• ECEM Demonstrator (Europe): http://ecem.wemcouncil.org/
  • WEMC is leading the development of an education version, which will include global datasets
• CarbonBrief’s “The impacts of climate change at 1.5C, 2C and beyond” (Global): https://interactive.carbonbrief.org/impacts-climate-change-one-point-five-degrees-two-degrees/
  • Stunningly presented, but very simply gives key statistics
  • Useful in conjuction with this map: https://www.carbonbrief.org/mapped-how-every-part-of-the-world-has-warmed-and-could-continue-to-warm
• Our World In Data (Global): https://ourworldindata.org/
  • Datasets and graphical representations for: CO₂ and other Greenhouse Gas Emissions; Energy Production & Changing Energy Sources; Fossil Fuels; Renewable Energy
• The 2 Degrees institute (Global): https://www.2degreesinstitute.org/
  • Interactive graph that can display carbon levels, temperature, sea-level rise etc
• Global Wind Atlas & Global Solar Atlas (Global): https://globalwindatlas.info/ and https://globalsolaratlas.info/
  • Technical, but very useful for enquiries into renewable energy (solar and wind)

Publications:

• Drawdown: The Most Comprehensive Plan Ever Proposed To Reverse Global Warming (Global): https://www.drawdown.org/the-book (ISBN: 978-0-141-98843-6)
  • Very accessible and based on research, can use for place-based case-studies

 

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David Preece

August 2, 2019 at 4:54 pm #9809

Earth Viewer: http://earth.nullschool.net – which is fabulous for monitoring “live” conditions, and looking at the interactions between aspects and layers.

My Grid GB has a range of great resources, including the map of all renewable resources: https://www.mygridgb.co.uk/map/ and a great set of live energy dashboard resources for what the UK National Grid is currently utilising: https://www.mygridgb.co.uk/dashboard/

In a few specifications and components, there are lots of really great “moments” from the Iain Stewart DVD series – Power of the Planet and How Earth Made Us both have some excellent components on e.g. monsoon, ITCZ migration, wind patterns, ocean circulation etc.

 

Casie Gaebler

October 17, 2019 at 12:23 pm #10195

The Exploratorium in San Francisco has loads of teacher resources for teaching about climate, weather, and energy.  – https://www.exploratorium.edu/education/designing-teaching-learning-tools

Alberto Troccoli

October 18, 2019 at 10:05 am #10196

Thanks for sharing Casie, and nice coincidence! I had the fortune of working at the Exploratorium for a couple of months during my year off. A magical place! Here’s a teacher training lesson (with materials) that Lori Lambertson and I did about graphing climate change: https://geogramblings.com/2018/03/07/how-to-make-a-graph-the-talk-of-the-town/