An article in today's TES is on the topic of Climate Change in the curriculum: very timely...
I get a mention towards the end.
Alan Parkinson, secondary curriculum development leader at the Geographical Association, says integrating issues around climate change is not difficult, but warns against seeing it as a separate subject.
“Ideally, it will be embedded in the curriculum to subjects where it has relevance, such as geography, science and ICT,” he says. “Teachers can be quite creative. For example, if they are doing a unit on tourism, they might ask their pupils to consider the implication on the environment of choosing a certain holiday destination over others.
“It helps to refer to climate change as something that will affect us into the future, as well as now, and connecting it to young people’s lives.”
With world leaders meeting hundreds of miles away, it helps to see how what they are learning is relevant to them.
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