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Titel cover page Cover back side

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Preface EU

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Preface ACCENT Table of contents

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Part 1:ACCENT on site: training and outreach events Event map of Europe (locations of on site events are represented in a map bydifferent symbols, one for each category:early career scientists, university teachers, school teacherscafé scientifique (e.g. coffee cup) and other outreach eventsinsets show other regions in the world where ACCENTwas active (Mongolia, China)

Area a: Training events1a1 Training events for early career scientist. An informative example of key content from each of theworkshops is briefly introduced on about half the page.(a chart / scheme from a lecture may be added)Further down on the page the workshop is described:… Early career scientists learned about this during theworkshop at Thessaloniki … etc. (a photo my be added)

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1a2 Training events for university teachers

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1a3 Training events for school teachers

Area b: Outreach eventsDescriptions of outreach events are kept short, since the activities belongprimarily to WP 17

1b1 Mt. Cimone school event

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1b2 Outreach stake holders 1b3 Café scientifique

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Part 2: ACCENT in the Internet: Web based education and disseminationInternet nodes - map of Europe

(locations of development points for Internet dissemination in Europe and beyond)locations are represented in a map bydifferent symbols, one for each category:e-Learning, global change magazine

Area a: eLearning Modules2a2 Detailed description of E-learning modulese

eLearning locations: Bern, Mainz, Norwich

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Area b: Global change magazine2b2 Detailed introduction of the global change magazineGCM locations: Vilnius, Urbino, Mainz, Sion, Leicester, Barranquilla?

The ACCENT Global Change Magazine Learning about the atmosphere and the climate system in school often means to rely on material other than the school book. Students’ limited but varying climate literacy in Europe and in the world requires from an overarching multilingual project like ACCENT a wider range of tools which shall be applicable in different learning contexts. The Global Change Magazine aims to be a helpful online resource for students from 13 to 19 years.

Science classes cannot offer an encyclopaedic view of the climate system. They give detached examples like photosynthesis as part of the carbon cycle or acid rain in the context of acids and bases.

Editions of the ACCENT magazine complement the spectrum of such modules for day to day classes. But they do more: They are interlinked to a full climate encyclopaedia and allow to understand the Earth system as a whole.

They shade also light on the science behind the conclusions and the uncertainty behind the data. Although published in the Internet and open source they are peer-reviewed by scientists and combine the reliability of primary literature with understandability of everybody.

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Clear structure – ready for the next lesson … 

Time is restricted by many topics you have still to cover in your science and geography classes. How to bring in environmental aspects? We deliver small modules and provide the hub connectingschool book content directly to state of the art research. A clear structure helps you to find what you need.

Each edition is about a school relevant topic, for example the nitrogen cycle and ozone formation. It offers different tools sorted by a colour code.

Green = research:Show to your students what is relevant in research, what scientists are focussing on at the moment and which methods they use. It‘s exciting as a starter and we describe it in an understandable way.

Yellow = context:Research has a lot to do with what you are telling anyway in your classes. Here is the link. On one page we combine an excerpt from school books with an outline of those facts scientists are making use of.

Red = activities:Text and illustrations are not sufficient for classes. We provide or suggest material, so that pupils can become active: worksheets, quizzes, webquests, role plays, ideas for experiments. Use it as enrichment.

Blue = links:No need to invent the wheel twice. A lot of information is already available in the web. We tell you about related resources you can rely on.

Atmosphere and climate – topics for many subjects 

The mutual influences of atmosphere and climate with our environment and society are so far-ranging that even the term „Earth science“ does often cover not all aspects. Consequently the Global Change Magazine addresses in its classic editions suitable for 2-4 lessons many school subjects: geography, biology, chemistry and physics, but editions haveeven been developed for social science and language classes.

Classic editions focus on topics relevant in school curricula. Cycles of matter

(nitrogen or carbon), food chains in the sea, interaction of light and matter, acid

rain or traffic emissions.

Special editions focus on items of high topicality like hurricanes, important climate conferences or outstanding results from research.

All classic editions provide research and context articlesas well as material for classroom activities, links to further resourcesand in most cases also recommendations for teachers how to integratethe content in the curricula. They do not require from teachers to look foradditional complementary material.

photo prisma: user „ilker“ on stockXchngphoto hub: user „Vangelis Thomaidis“ on stockXchng

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the climate 12 series – atm. and climate science in one block

Urbino Questions: Insights in the policy science debate 

Who asks climate scientists to do research? Many basic questions are of interest in order to understand the climate system better and to make model results for the future more reliable. But often a better understanding of atmospheric processes is immediately relevant for legislation:

For public benefit, politicians would like to reduce emissions in order to avoid critical ozone values. They would like to set limits to the particle abundance in the air in order to avoid negative health impacts. So, they ask scientists to investigate which factors have an influence.

For project work in school:

Project work or optional subjects in school aim to give deeper insights in the interlinks between science, policy and consequences for the society. For this purpose we explain in special editions marked with the UQ symbol how scientific investigations gave answers to questions of politicians.

Demanding topics – understandable explanations

Although these topics are beyond that what ordinary classes would offer,we although provide here linksto core parts of each lesson plan and added detailed sections with advice for teachers. Lets build bridges between advanced science and learning about society environment relations.

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Summary, teacher feed back and outlook Part 3: Summarising overview and DVD resources

Hot Topics

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Acknowledgement and authors

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Content DVD and installation guidelines

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DVD bag