Climate change PDW in Roskilde - Resume

The target group was educators mainly from secondary education level (teaching students from around age 13 and up). The scope was both basic education, from these age levels, and upper secondary general as well as vocational education schools.

The approach for the PDW was on one side science education with lots of examples of practical classroom activities and experiments and on the other side humanistic, social science subjects and cross curricular.

The workshops in the programme was presented in relation to climate education related to the upcoming COP 15 - United Nations Conference on Climate Change which is being held in Copenhagen, December 2009.

The Venue was Hotel Comwell in Roskilde, a city about 40 km West of Copenhagen with a nice view to Roskilde Fjord.

Regards from the Danish etwinning Team

The members of the Danish eTwinning NSS - National Support Service - sends their regards.
(As seen from left to right - Claus Berg, Anders Raun and Ebbe Schultze).

It was a real pleasure hosting this event!

(The photo was taken with one of the infrared thermal cameras used at the Eco-School workshop.
The cameras can be used for tracking insuffient insulation in buildings and for detecting poorly made electronic installations).

Pre-conference Workshop
“Games and Learning” (Ella Myhring, Højby School, and Claus Berg, UNI•C)

A mind provoking offer about a Danish approach on integrating video games in teaching.
Read the abstract for the computer game workshop.

The Games in Schools Project - http://games.eun.org/ 
Read the EMU weblog on computer games in schools.

Opening
“eTwinning - today and tomorrow” (Anne Gilleran - Central Support Service, EUN)

An overview  of the evolution of eTwinning, what it has achieved and the possibilities for future development.
Click here to open the Power Point from Anne Gilleran, EUN. 

 

Other Climate offers in 2009
Teacherscop15.dk, Nordic Climate Day and ICE2009.org (Anders Raun, UNI•C)

http://teacherscop15.dk - launches in May 2009 - register for the newsletter.
http://ice2009.org - Inspiring Climate Inspiration - conference autumn 2009.
http://klimanorden.org - Nordic Climate Day - sms event for Nordic countries November 11th 2009.

Dinner speach
“Climate: Destiny or responsibility” (Johannes Lebech, Danish MEP)

See and hear the speach in the EMU weblog.

 

 

 

Introducing the afternoon's workshops. Hands-on, educational sequences, tools.

1: “The Climate Mystery”, an edu game (Christian Fonnesbech, Congin)
The Climate Mystery is an online learning community about climate issues. The Climate Mystery mixes social media, serial drama and online games to create a unique learning platform about the global climate challenges. http://congin.dk/eng/cases_climatemystery.htm 

 

Read the EMU weblog on the Climate Mystery workshop:
http://weblog.emu.dk/roller/internationalt/entry/the_climate_mystery

 

 

2: “CO2nnect” (Dorthe Christensen, University of Copenhagen, Faculty of Life Sciences)
The United Nations' Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) states in its reports that the planet earth is getting warmer because of human activity. Pupils need wide competencies to meet the challenges of sustainable development - including climate change. The CO2nnect activities are designed to support learning that can provide pupils with abilities, skills, attitudes and awareness as well as knowledge and understanding of the issues. The activities can easily be adapted to a range of age groups and linked to the curricula of many subjects. http://www.co2nnect.org/ 

 

Read the EMU weblog on the CO2nnect workshop:
http://weblog.emu.dk/roller/internationalt/entry/co2nnect

 

 

3: “Healthy Food for a sick Planet” (Christian Ege, The Ecological Council)
What we eat has an impact on the climate, but it is difficult to change habits. Flakkebjerg Efterskole tog udfordringen op og lagde kosten om. Flakkebjerg Efterskole took up the challenge and put on the diet. The result can be seen in a new educational DVD with by the Environment Council. http://www.ecocouncil.dk/english/ 

 

Read the EMU weblog on the "Healthy Food for a sick Planet":
http://weblog.emu.dk/roller/internationalt/entry/healthy_food_for_a_sick

 

Workshop with Flakkebjerg Efterskole
Click here to see the presentation from Flakkebjerg Efterskole (Powerpoint)

 

4: “Eco-Schools - innovative schools working for sustainable development (Eigil Larsen, Danish Outdoor Council)”
– Workshop title: “Innovation and environment".
The Eco-School programme promotes tools for active citizenship - knowledge and understanding, ideas for a better world, critical thinking and the ability to act for a sustainable world. Climate Change is not the end of the world. http://www.eco-schools.org/ 

Workshop: Example of environmental education at a Danish public school.
Based on our eco-school projects (Green flag) we provide concrete ideas for environmental teaching. Tuition involves heat-sensitive camera as a tool to give students the practical options when it comes to CO2 savings.
There will also be an opportunity to test the heat-sensitive cameras at the workshop.

 

Report from the Eco-School workshop in the EMU weblog:
http://weblog.emu.dk/roller/internationalt/entry/eco_schools_report_from_a

 

 

5: “Animal Ethics Dilemma” (Trine Dich, University of Copenhagen, Faculty of Life Sciences)
An internet-based learning resource, which can be used by teachers and students as part of an animal ethics course. The programme presents dilemmas of animal use from different ethical perspectives using role-play, and aims to develop one's own ethical view and provide a better understanding of the ethical views of others. http://ae.imcode.com// 

Report from the Animal Ethics Dilemma workshop on the EMU weblog:
http://weblog.emu.dk/roller/internationalt/entry/animal_ethics_dilemma

 

 

Visit at the Viking Ship Museum in Roskilde

"Mjød"-drinking (brew from the Viking Age) and Viking Dinner at Restaurant "Snekken".

“MST projects at European Schoolnet” (Agueda Gras-Velazquez - EUN)

From research to experiments, from competitions to libraries. Projects at EUN look at MST education from all sides and try to be of interest to all type of teachers.

Watch the Power Point from Agueda Gras-Velasquez, EUN) 

ClimaSOS (Gabriel Ferreira, Portugal)

An eTwinning project with schools from Cyprus, Hungary, Italy, Sweden,
Spain and Romania.

This truly international team of teachers, students and local communities has
joined to investigate the causes and consequences of the climatic changes. We
are also taking a critical look at present practices at various levels, involving
people who are ready to change their minds and habits and develop a wiser
approach to their environment.

See the Project twinspace:
http://twinspace.etwinning.net/launcher.cfm?lang=en&ca=climasos

Download a printable abstract of the SOS project (Adobe pdf) 

Forming eTwinning partnerships & projects

Groups and teamworking – Including NETWORKING BREAK.

Plenary: Catching up, reflection and evaluation

Concluding the PDW (Anne Gilleran - EUN)

Closing of PDW (Danish NSS)