What is the Climate Action Project?
The Climate Action Project is a global Student-centered Project involving 250 schools over 69 countries made by Koen Timmers from Belgium.
Schools collaborated on climate change topics over this course in October 2017. Students from across six different continents conducted research, brainstormed and discussed ideas, presented and shared their findings about these topics via videos and online presentations. During the final week of the project, all participants have had an opportunity to Skype with each other to establish personal and meaningful connections with their global peers. Together, we hope to achieve a greater understanding in our students of the importance of taking action against climate change.
The project is student-centered and so the students have to do the research, brainstorming and discussion. They share their findings via weekly videos or presentations. The students are told that they are journalists and their classrooms become newsrooms.
All participating students will learn in very different ways (collaborative, by expressing and creating, by doing research, by discussing, by connecting to experts on social media, etc) and will have very different outcomes (composing songs, dancing, creating, using Lego, Minecraft, stop motion videos, interviewing, etc). This project covers several subjects: Science, Math, History, Biology, Literature, etc. Students will learn to use certain tools without being instructed how to use them. Teachers will discover new approaches and tools. They will make global connection and... learning will be fun!
Students will use tools like Office Mix and phones to create videos and will use several tools to create short articles (Eg: Sway, OneNote, PowerPoint, Word, etc). During one specific week they will use one specific new tool (Minecraft, Lifeliqe, etc) so they will discover a new tool. In the final week, they will use Skype in the classroom to connect and share what they have learned.
The project was covered by media in many countries and supported by Dalai Lama, Greenpeace, Jane Goodall, Unesco, Microsoft, #TeachSDGs, etc. Céline Cousteau and other public figures offered Skype lessons. Check the complete list of people who support the project HERE. The Climate Action Project in our school
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That was brilliant! Teachers & students across 6 continents listened to @celinecousteau sharing her inspiring story https://t.co/FlyBlwiozf pic.twitter.com/ksy2rGUIHd
— Koen Timmers (@zelfstudie) 18. октобар 2017.
Who is Celine Cousteau?
In 2006, Céline Cousteau was working on a documentary in the Amazon, returning to places her grandfather Jacques Cousteau had been to in the early 1980s. While there, she traveled into the Vale do Javari indigenous reserve in Brazil to film a meeting of the tribes. It was then that she first learned of the dire health crisis they are facing. Four years later, an indigenous leader from the Vale do Javari wrote asking her to tell their story to the world in the hopes of raising awareness as their situation had not changed. It is undeniable that in the Amazon, humans and nature are interconnected in such an intimate way that when there is environmental destruction, humans suffer immediately. With the largest number of uncontacted tribes on the planet and an irreplaceable ecosystem as suggested by UNESCO, it is time for the world to see this unique place up close. It is time for the Vale do Javari to be heard!
Read more HERE.
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The students of Serbia will do research about #ClimateFacts in a few weeks. https://t.co/NJWMxD01Ai @AnicaTrickovic pic.twitter.com/kRa5GIzh59
— Koen Timmers (@zelfstudie) 09. септембар 2017.
The goal of this student-centered global project is to provide an opportunity for students from 50+ countries in over six continents to construct their own knowledge about climate change and to create a growth mindset about overcoming and most of all taking action. Students will be encouraged to use their critical-thinking and reasoning skills to build deep knowledge. Let's bring empathy into our classrooms!
"What’s better than learning about global issues directly from each other?"
Read more here http://www.climate-action.info/
What that means?
The Global Goals Educator Task Force launched its #TeachSDGs mission in hopes that other educators would rally around a single vision: a world where this roadmap to a better humanity is introduced and explored in every classroom on Earth.
Our ambassadors are passionate global thinkers from many nations, co-leaders of the #TeachSDGs movement.
Our ambassadors show initiative by:
- Leading small or large scale projects in support of the mission.
- Leveraging private and public connections to spread the movement.
- Recruiting more teachers and school leaders to embrace the Global Goals.
- Managing social media accounts beyond Twitter.
- Informing and influencing political leaders.
- Incorporating the Goals into own organizations
- Conceiving and pitching fresh ideas and strategies to the board.
I want to try and make some changes in my students ways of thinking and their lives. Math is all around us and that is the reason we need to learn how to solve the problems and not to be afraid of them. Sometimes, math is not enough. We need to know much more, and to have the whole picture about the world we leave in. We need to learn every day, and to use that knowledge not just to solve everyday problems, but to try to solve the problems of all humanity, so we could have a better future. We can only solve global challenges like poverty, inequality and climate change by working together. That is what the Sustainable Development Goals are all about – every one of us need to take a small step in making this world a better place. |
We were happy to see #Lifeliqe used by Ts in #ClimateActionP. Thx @AnicaTrickovic for sharing this. @zelfstudie @MicrosoftEDU #MIEExpert https://t.co/ZaW1Aw9SNh
— Lifeliqe (@Lifeliqe) 04. новембар 2017.
In #ClimateActionP we used @sway @SkypeClassroom @Lifeliqe @TeachSDGs Thx @zelfstudie @milos_raskovic @MicrosoftEDU https://t.co/CUju7wZvCn
— Anica Tričković (@AnicaTrickovic) 03. новембар 2017.
We are ready for the #GlobalGoals week! #TeachSDGs #eTwinningSparks #Serbia @TheWorldsLesson @TheGlobalGoals @TeachSDGs @UNCT_Serbia pic.twitter.com/p5wWG43Er8
— Anica Tričković (@AnicaTrickovic) 16. септембар 2017.
The students of Serbia will do research about #ClimateFacts in a few weeks. https://t.co/NJWMxD01Ai @AnicaTrickovic pic.twitter.com/kRa5GIzh59
— Koen Timmers (@zelfstudie) 09. септембар 2017.
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