Week 1: Introduction

Powerpoint presentation including pictures that present what the class perceive climate change is

The students of City of Knowledge Academy, Ijebu-Ode, presenting their work on climate change.

COLLABORATION OUTCOME OF ACTIVE DISCUSSION AND ONLINE RESEARCH OF GEOGRAPHY STUDENT OF FGC OGBOMOSO, OYO STATE NIGERIA

The rising levels of carbon dioxide and other heat-trapping gases in the atmosphere have warmed the Earth.

These are causing wide-ranging impacts, including rising sea levels; melting snow and ice; more extreme heat events, fires and drought; and more extreme storms, rainfall, and floods. 

So, climate change, also called global warming, refers to the rise in average surface temperatures on earth

Hello Fellow educators and students

I am a computer programmer and I am teaching my students how to create WebPages using HTML and CSS; so I decided to incorporate the Climate Change project into our curriculum.

Yesterday we spoke about climate change and my students decided to create a WebPage

Their requirements were simple

They had to use their existing knowledge of HTML and CSS.

They had to have pictures, one of which must denote our Institution, and they must include the hyperlinks from the PDF document that I had emailed to them.

This is one of the Websites that was hosted on a free web hosting site.

Click to view IT, Well done Fahima and Nqobile

https://fahimarahim.000webhostapp.com/Climate/Climate%20Change.html

all the very best to fellow students and educators

regards

Prinavin from sunny South Africa

They say that competition is healthy, well I created a little competition between the girls and the guys.

This morning I posted the website that the girls( Fahima and Nqobile) in my programming class had created.

By the afternoon the Guys had submitted their website. So here IT is. Well done to the guys

https://nhlaks.000webhostapp.com/main.htm

Hope that you like IT;)

regards

From Sunny South Africa: Prinavin Govender

A students' discussion on the Climate change. This was conducted at DCT Mvumi school in Tanzania. It is based on common experience  around this semi arid area.

Bangladesh has a sub tropical monsoon climate by wide seasonal rainfall,high temperature and humidity. March to June is cool,June to October is rainy, October to June is dry winter .My students try to find out what is Climate,Why change the season? They were know in Bangladesh has six seasons, such as Summer, Rainy, Autumn, Late autumn, Winter, Spring. Now a day they can observe only three. Why it is ? They try to find out by allowing one week , At first i help them made an (Office mix) the cause all over our country then they will go to their community watch and write the cause by brainstorming.

In this short introduction video, the students describe where they are from, what climate change means to them and why  it is important to study and understand the process.

A project made by the class VII together on Sway.
Some researched
Some Read the topic from the textbook
Some worked on the sway
Some organized matter to mind map
The outcome was this simple project

Students collectively made the powerpoint presentation about the topic.

Rayat International School began with the project with a BOOM. The day started with the morning Assembly where the junior section of the school where acquainted with the topic and all the science teachers came up and highlighted the topic.  The students of grade 9th and 10th prepared Sway showing Why Climatic Change in India  and they gave the awareness on the topic to their peers by taking a session. So this way the awareness was spread in the whole school, the students also went hope with a questionnaire which they filled by discussing with their parents.https://www.facebook.com/taljit.heer#

Students of class 9 researched about climate change, brainstormed in groups and created rap songs pertaining to their understanding of climate change. Here we present a rap song created by one of the groups selected by the students themselves through a democratic process of voting. The project brought to fore the 21st century skills - 'communication and collaboration' as well as 'creativity and imagination' among the young learners. 

This project is working for past 4 years it all began from ....Story in the sway presentation

This video is made by students who are Climate change ambassadors. We have captured the views of a number of students from various classes on their take on "What is climate change?"

Also a slogan recitation competition was held for students of 7th grades in which they created and recited some slogans. All this is baeiutifully captured by the student team. Our school head girl's take on Climate change is worth listening to.

I am proud to share that the conceptualization and execution of the project was done by students independently and with a lot of enthusiasm. We guided them about some resources and provided them with technical reqirements like camera, microphone etc.

Talented students of MET Rishikul Vidyalaya( MRV) , Mumbai , India have enthusiastically undertaken the project " Climate change".

MRV has always been concerned about the environmental issues and have an array of green activities which are undertaken regularly by  the students . https://www.facebook.com/MRVGreenWorld/

The climate change project has been taken up by the students across grade with great fervour.

 Prensentation by Class, and a Quiz on Kahoot:

Kahoot Link ---------------https://play.kahoot.it/#/?quizId=3a0d8dff-8066-4497-afc4-aade4d8b8a75

 Kahoot Link ---------------https://play.kahoot.it/#/?quizId=3a0d8dff-8066-4497-afc4-aade4d8b8a75

Climate in Action

By using Kahoot

Students of grade VII(C) are worried about Climate Change. They are discussing the causes, responsibilities for climate change and then insisting all of us to join hands together for climate change as it is the biggest threat for all of us.

As per the Climate Action Plan in week 1 i.e. from October 2, 2017 to October 7, 2017. Students were introduced about the project. An introductory presentation was demonstrated to students on sway about climate change. Some activities were also performed by students on the concerned topic. A poster on chart paper was also made by the students on Global warming. #Koen Timmers #ClimateAction #ClimateActionP.

The class was divided into groups. They are divided into four groups representing each week after a brief introduction to the project. Week -1 findings were shared with the whole class. It was a happy moment seeing the students sharing their research which empowered them to the core and brought them to the reality that they are future and need to take care of Planet Earth.  

Week 1 activities included students understanding of climate change and how it is impacting their lives. To show outcome effectively we have used thinking maps framework and picked up Circle map to show their understanding.

My students express their understanding on Climate Change by creating a MINECRAFT short video. There are 20 of 7th and 8th grade students from my school participated in this amazing project which is Climate Action. 

This project aims to provide the students with a set of skills based on brainstorming, dialogue, discussion, sharing of information and knowledge, summarizing the results and interpreting the phenomena with a scientific logic based on a set of scientific studies and research in the various sources of knowledge related to scientific research and the most important in life.

The outputs of learning are in the projects of drawing and statistical analysis of quantitative data, and the production of short films explaining the phenomenon of climate change, where students express their happiness, and feel proud to participate in this global project

Grade VI students practised different note making methods, conducted research and shared their research findings with the class.

Once studnets had discussed the existing and potential factors cauing climate change, they brodened their imagination by representing one of factors and their implications through role play.

As an assessment of The Yarn-Ball activity, students were asked to share what they had learnt.  (Formal assessment)

Grade 6 students at Beacohouse  Newlands went on the Climate Change investigation journey, Thorugh out the first week, they explored the factors affecting the climate change in a collaborative manner. In this activity, students were given a term (factor causing climate change) and asked to brainstorm as to how it causes climate change and its connection with other factors.

After studnets had learnt about different factors affecting climate changed, they brainstormed in their groups and came up with their role-play scanarios. For more, watch the video!

Our welcome presentation from the HAK Steyr - 2DK

In our first week, we tackled the complex topic of climate change globally and in Austria specificially

Our final Video shows Austria and follows to present the following topics:

- What is climate change?

- What are the consequences?

- The Paris Agreement

- general and global causes

- specific causes for Austria

During our first wek we tried to figure out a definition - what does climate mean and how do we survey changes in climate.
The students did a lot of brainstorming and they tried to put up a multi-lingual dictionary concerning weather. They used their smartphones and other devices (they actually brought them from home!)
The short video clips were created and filmed by themselves, because they were working in small self-formed groups.

In this first week, we investigated the climate in different countries, but we also learned about the Belgian Ccimate! Take a look! 

Bosnia and Herzegovina is land of water. Beautiful springs, rivers, lakes, the see... We seem not to be aware of importance of water. We are taking it for granted. So today we are facing the problem of water reduction in our homes...

Students at Hristo Smirnenski Primary School in Bulgaria have prepared presentations about the Climate Change.

The students from IX. gimnazija in Zagreb, Croatia, introduce themselves.

5.b researched what climate change is for the week 1 project. They collaborated in teams and had great class discussions. All of this work prepared them for their ongoing work on trying to find solutions for climate change.

Jaana's and Petri's 3rd Graders started to work with the theme Global warming. All that was new to them and that's why we started with thinking about the Finnish climate, talking about the weather, watching videos about the Global warming and writing down ideas on Padlet. Our students used their own mobile phones while working with this project. Next week we will continue our project by thinking about the consequences and making cartoons about the ways how to decrease the Global warming. Janne's 9th Graders worked as a translators after the 3rd Graders had finalized their part in Finnish.

Finnish students got to know what global warming is. They studied several recourses and made some notes.

We searched for the information on climate change and problems Georgia is having in this regard.

We searched for the information on climate change and problems Georgia is having in this regard, prepareed a presentation and planned craeting posters for the next week.

http://agenda.ge/news/40521/eng

https://www.georgianjournal.ge/society/32635-georgia-no-1-among-the-coun...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Environmental_issues_in_Georgia

https://www.wiseinternational.org/nuclear-monitor/435/environmental-and-...

Students watched a movie about global warming and the effects that it has on the Earth.  We discussed what we could do to reduce or reverse the changes that are contributing to climate change in the Earth’s atmosphere.  We prepared a bulletin board to visualize ideas to combat global warming.

Brainstorming ideas and creating a climate change collaborative mind map with our friends from Navas Catalonia is our contribution to WHAT CLIMATE CHANGE IS.

Let's watch pupils explaining the results of their research

Our Project overview

If we want to do something we must save planet. Our planet is full of beauty and it is very sad when no one cares! We should stop using plastics.

Kids work collaboratevely, they play games.

This week the 5th grade students of the 1st Primary School of Pyrgos watched very short videos which focus on Climate Change.

The videos contributed to the brainstorming of ideas. Students were required to take notes about specific issues that were raised in the videos.

After each video, they used their notes to explain the environmental problems presented and what people should do to protect the environment and consequently themselves. In this way they got engaged and got familiar with the notion of climate change.

Then, they worked in groups: some of them used their computers to explore climate change and collect information and others drew pictures about it.

your climate!!

How can we protect our small town and our beautiful lake? 

After a short discussion about the aim of environmetal protection all students drew a picture about their ideas.

St. Augustine's N.S. is a small rural school in Co. Galway in the west of Ireland. The school is the first primary Microsoft Showcase School in the Republic of Ireland.

This week the students of Clontuskert worked in teams to gather information, research and explore the theme of Cliamte Change. This was an exploratory week driven by the thoughts and ideas of the students. They used OneNote to collate their information and following brainstorming sessions decided how they would approach the filming process. Check out our film and let us know what you think by tweeting us on @clontuskertns

#ClimateChangeP

Students graders focused on research strategies while we investigated this week's question.  With a focus on search terms, credible sources, and paraphrasing information, students dove into their research with the goal of producing a news broadcast on the topic through a creative, scientific, or informational lens.  We involved our entire class through the production of  videos.

Presenting some information about Macedonia, facts about climate and effects of climate change using Sway. Satisfied students, motivated, inspired and dedicated to the activity

Students were working in groups of four. They watched movies about situation on the Earth due to people's activity in different part of our globe. We discussed how humans activities contribute to climate change by causing changes in Earth's atmosphere. Students could see pictures from India and Bangladesh and compare them to Polish problems. They prepared pictures of our planet to be ready to make a poster. We also planted flowers in the school yard.

 Using Powtoon 4 students  from the 9th form of EB 2/3 Dr. Alberto Iria did an animation showing the consequences of climate change, in several areas.

The Portuguese Students are ready to go.
Tons of ideas and a  month to make it happen:
- A Cleaning Action Plan in our Natural Park "Ria Formosa"
- Buiding Wind Turbines with Recycled Materials
- Going on a Field Trip to see how a Wind Turbine works
- Paint a Mural at school about  Biodiversity with the help of a well known local urban artist

What is Climate Change?

Students made a general approach to what is Climate Change:

•How Climate Change became no longer a result of Natural Events and started to be the result of Human Activities

•Who/What is being affected by it

•Its Consequences in the different Social-Economic Sectors

•How to Prevent it

• A word of Advise

          Climate Change: Is it a Game we can afford to Lose???

• Natural and Human Factors

What can we do to avoid it?

https://sway.com/CJVSMn2284XYeoxm?ref=Link

Portuguese students from Espinho, in the north of the country, next to Porto, are very proud to be taking part in such a wonderful project! :)

In this power point we intend to present the students and the place where our school is.

The project is describing the main effects of the climate change to animals, plants and humans. Issues as global warmings or greenhouse effects are analyzed and their effects among the ecosystems.  The Arctic Sea or the Antartic area are approached in a special research  by analyzing the consequences of the climate change to the future of the life in this areas.   ( Team Alvarez) 

We think climate change is a serious problem that needs to be resolved as quickly as possible. In spite of the high pollution in our country and across the world, there is still a change that we can save our planet. Every action can help.
 

We enjoyed in first week of the project and researched about What climate change is

How people mistreat nature in Serbia

 This presentation has been made by a group of 10 year old students.

This is the rersult after a good research and common work about what the climate change is. Students of Grade 5 in Sant Josep school created a collaborative mind map together with their Greek partners about this topic. After that we made a video in order to show what we understand climate change is.

Introducción breve del concepto de Cambio climático y de impactos posibles en Valencia.

Descripción más desarrollada del concepto y de sus consecuencias en España y Valencia.

Students from Martí Sorolla II (València, Spain)

The students of year five of Julio Verne School speak about their country and their school.

this vídeo is a presentation our city and the climation  change

We spent the lesson looking at evidence of climate change.  We looked at graphs about temperature, CO2 and population.  We looked at both natural and human causes

Talking about pollution and other causes of climate change. Making an agamograph.

Through the use of FlipGrid, students shared their thoughts, in French, to express their understanding of Climate Change.

https://flipgrid.com/climateactionpfuisz

RHS helps PWA combat plastics! Plastics that are derived from fossil fuel!

The goal: raise awareness on the impacts of plastics. 

Meet Environmental Science class and learn what they're doing so far this fall.

This pair of academic English students discuss climate change with reference to specific characters and elements in the book I'm With the Bears , a collection of short stories about climate change, edited by Bill Mckibben.  Our class is at Timmins High & Vocational School in Timmins, Ontario, Canada.  

Answering What is Climate Change?

This week our class looked at the causes of climate change and the many human factors that have impacted the environment today. 

Next week students will look more into how climage change has effected our community of London, Ontario, Canada and surrounding areas, the province of Ontario, and Canada. 

Using Sway and working with our Grade 5/6 friends in Port Dover Canada in Joe Archer's class we co-created this Sway. We watched video clips and read books to understand what Climate change is and how it is affecting our world. We connected this the Global Goals as well.

Here are some of the first videos students created to demonstrate their climate change learning.

Students researched and worked collaboratively on central questions to produce this powerpoint presentation.

1. What does climate change mean,  and how does it function?

2. What are the specific concerns in Canada - to people, to animals, and to the environment?

3. What organizations exist that are trying to do something about climate change?

4. What can we do?

Sway about the journey our class has taken in the first week of the project.

Here is a video that our class wrote, filmed, edited and published in ONE day! We were so excited to write the script with all our research we did from the past week! 

In this first week my students are going to know about the project and then I am going to involve them in the first topic What is Climate change? giving to them some direction that they can start to participate saying what they think about it  with a brainstorm, them they are goin to research in groups and make some poster about what they found.
Some of them created a sway and presentation in power point so you will see all the work in the next links.

https://sway.com/RqdFPcAudQCcLBEh?ref=Link&loc=play

https://sway.com/FUjWaotYVYYk0Ol1?ref=Link&loc=play

What is Climate Change?  My third hour students researched climate change with a focus on the deserts in Arizona (USA), and created this amazing Powerpoint.

Students worked in groups of 4 as experts (expert groups), analyzing articles pertaining to climate change. Once done, they broke into new groups (share out groups) to share out the information they learned from previous groups. By the end of the week, students, among share out groups, synthesized their findings to create a one-pager answer week one's question, "What is climate change?"

Greetings from Florida!  The students were very excited to start this project and have learned a great deal already.  Please enjoy this Buncee they put together!

The 8th Grade students at Acero Brighton Park Elementary (Chicago, IL, USA) started the Climate Action Project last week. They spent time during advisory, lunch period, and after school hours to research background information regarding climate change. They split into 4 different groups: a poster group, article group, commercial group, and informational video! Their work products are posted in this section.

**Next week, my students will be on "Fall Break" for Week 2; however, they will be coming to school on Thursday and Friday to continue working on the Climate Action Project. I'm really proud of all their hard work and their dedication to this project. Way to Go, Georgetown!

-Mr. Zarate

The fourth grade students at BSE in Fishers, Indiana investigated the question "What is climate change?" via a collection of grade level appropriate online resources.  Here are their thoughts.

Our 7th graders focused on research strategies while we investigated this week's question.  With a focus on search terms, credible sources, and paraphrasing information, students dove into their research with the goal of producing a news broadcast on the topic through a creative, scientific, or informational lens.  We involved our entire class through the production of two videos.  Our other video can be found on our class website: http://nwmshumanitiesclimateaction.weebly.com/

My students will house all of their reflections on this site: https://sites.google.com/wcps.k12.md.us/climate-action-project/week-1-introductions.  They introduced themselves and explained where they were on Climate Change for the first week.  We are also reading "Drowned City" at the same time.  It is a graphic novel about "Hurricane Katrina".  Students are starting to see the connections of climate change with weather as we discuss the novel.  The fuse for learning more has been lit.  

The Riverbend School seventh graders researched climate change and watched a BrainPop video. They worked collaboratively in groups. 

Students spent the week working in groups researching the terms weather, climate and climate change. They used kid safe search engines like KidRex.org and books from our school library. They then created posters to share what they learned.  Using creativity they drew pictures of the four seasons as they were 40 years ago and now.  While doing this work we also explored the cultures and maps of countries around the world who are participating in this project. 

Students had two main groups: introductory and research. Within these groups, students organized, researched, synthesized, and presented individually, in partners, or small groups. 

Students worked in groups to come up with answers to the question, "What does the term 'climate change' mean?"

Once students learned the meaning of climate, they used their learnign from a few picture books to discuss climate change.  We had a discussion, as a class about our own climate and what we experienced each season this year.  The students wrapped up their learning by creating quick video visulas/PSAs to hightlight the changes we have seen.  

Our 6th graders started with defining climate and then comparing it to weather.  We brainstormed what the climate is like in our region then we broadened our understanding of what climate change refers to. Our kids seemed to understand that climate change was synonymous with global warming. We also discussed that throughout time, there is evidence to suggest climate change is something that happens periodically. We wondered whether our current climate change is a naturally occuring change or is due to human impact. 

We finalized our week with answering the questions: "What is the cause of climate change? What are the effects of climate change? and What is our own state like?" using emoji symbols on a joint poster. 

One of our collaborations to answer the question, "What is Climate Change?"

Each group answered a part of this question, and we combined all of their parts into this presentation. Enjoy!

Here is one group's anwer to this question!  We studied biomes and watched the film "Before the Flood" with Leonardo diCaprio to learn about climate change, then researched an area that we wanted to help answer the question and created presentations. Enjoy! 

We began by looking at the world and all the places that are participating in the Climate Action Project. We talked about different environments and the impacts that are starting to be felt in many places. We also considered ways in which we might act to reduce climate change.  Mix converted to film here

We  have created a sway to introduce our groups at Mother of Mercy school and to show how we started working in the project.

“The observation of nature and meditation have generated art.”
 Ciceron

Following Ciceron, during this first week we explore the concept of climate change through plastic art.

We start proposing the following artists and collective groups: Captain Boomer, Wilmar Orlando Cosme Calzada and Anthony Quinn.  Then, students add the artists that they want to discover and research. 

Our production for this week is a digital collage.  This tool promotes a versatile medium of expression full of freedom to employ different shapes and procedures. Moreover, it is an artistic expression that allows us to make a “visual summary” of what we investigate and reflect upon and, hopefully, inspire others to start investigating about climate change in our country, Argentina. 

This week our class investigated the meaning, causes and effects of climate change. It was very important to get more deeply in touch with the problem and to make students active participants in communicating, preventing and finding solutions for it.

More information on Climate Change

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lo18ka1pI4Q&feature=youtu.be

https://youtu.be/WTrjHtcD9Ho

En conjunto con los alumnos, se salió a las calles y dentro de la escuela realizando una siembra de arbolitos, que mejorá la el clima y la situación ambiental.