Alongside procuring scholarships for Net Zero STEM related undergraduate courses, it is important to reach out to school children of all ages to explain how such courses can help combat global warming.

 

TIDE Community is a proud contributor to the National Climate Education Action Plan (NCEAP). The Action Plan is part of the Department for Education's Sustainability and Climate Change Strategy.

 

In particular, in collaboration with: Justin Dillon (UCL's Centre for Climate Change & Sustainability Education), Mike Hardisty (EngineeringUK), Melissa Lord (Sustainability Physics for Schools), Mick de Pomeroi (https://www.schoolclimatescience.info), who are all members of the NCEAP, we have authored two documents:

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1. Climate Science Mapping is a hierarchical framework of issues commonly cited relating to Global Warming and Climate Change. Under each heading there are relevant extracts from the existing curricula of Key Stage 3 Biology, Chemistry, Geography and Physics. The document helps teachers to understand the bigger picture and to use the curricula extracts to justify/segue teaching a particular subject they feel comfortable to do within the context of Climate Science. The detail framework makes the document applicable at all educational levels where younger students might only be taught some of the Level 1 subjects at a high level and A Level and University students can study in detail at Level 3.

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2. Tackling Climate Change Mapping is a hierarchical framework of issues commonly cited relating to tackling climate change by the reduction of carbon in the atmosphere. Under each heading there are extracts from the existing curricula of Key Stage 3 Biology, Chemistry, Geography and Physics. The document helps teachers understand the bigger picture and to use the curricula extracts to justify/segue teaching a particular subject they feel comfortable to do within the context of tackling climate change. The detail framework makes the document applicable at all educational levels where younger students might only be taught some of the Level 1 subjects at a high level and A Level and University students can study in detail at the Level 3. Most importantly, anything in green type is good material to use to highlight green careers.