WSW 2024: Space & Climate Change Resources
Space and Climate Change: Resources for World Space Week 2024
This page consists of a curated collection of useful resources for World Space Week 2024’s theme, Space & Climate Change. This year’s theme celebrates the transformative impact of space technology in our ongoing battle against climate change, emphasizing the proactive role space exploration plays in enhancing our understanding and management of Earth’s climate.
Below, you will find resources for teachers, students, classrooms and anyone who is interested in learning more about how space helps mitigating Earth’s climate change.
We thank our WSW 2024, Space & Climate Change partner, Space4Climate.org, for helping us curate this list!
Resources for Teachers
These resources are designed to help educators integrate climate change into their curricula:
- TROP ICSU Climate Change Education: Educational resources for teaching climate change across various subjects.
- Office for Climate Education (OCE) Teacher Resources: A variety of resources for teachers.
- EC Online (Teacher) Community: Education for Climate.
- ESA’s Climate for Schools Teaching Resource Packs: Comprehensive educational materials on climate change.
- Explore Climate Change through GIS: Using GIS to teach climate change.
- From the Ground and from the Sky: Analyzing and Understanding Images of Planet Earth Taken from Space: Teaching resources for analyzing space images.
Online Courses for Teachers
- SpaceEU: Climate: “Our Fragile Planet” online course empowers teachers to teach space- and astronomy-related topics to their students.
- Office for Climate Education “How to Teach Climate Change” Online Course (MOOC): “Climate Change Education: From Knowledge to Action”.
Resources for Students and Classrooms
Resources tailored for students of different age groups.
Young Learners
- NASA Climate Kids: Fun and educational content about climate change.
Secondary Education
- ESA Climate Detectives: Engage with climate monitoring projects.
- NASA Climate Science: Advanced scientific content on climate change.
- Climate Change and Rising Seas: Understanding the impacts of rising sea levels.
- Global Climate Change Quizzes: Test your knowledge with interactive quizzes on various climate topics.
- Explore Climate Change through GIS: Using GIS to teach climate change
- NASA Climate Interactives and Quizzes: Fun and interactive ways to learn about climate change.
Higher Education
- Science Education through Earth Observation for High Schools (SEOS): Using satellite remote sensing in high school science curricula.
- GIS4Schools: Using GIS technology to assess climate change impacts. Basics of QGIS (more advanced).
- ESA Climate Science: In-depth resources for understanding climate science.
- NASA Climate Science: Advanced resources on climate science.
- Old NASA Climate Science website: A valuable resource for understanding climate science.
- Explore Climate Change through GIS: Explore how climate change affects Earth’s systems and human activity through spatial analysis, mapping, and GIS tools.
Multimedia
Explore climate change through engaging multimedia resources:
- ESA Climate YouTube Videos: A collection of videos on climate from ESA.
- NASA Climate YouTube Videos: A collection of videos on climate from NASA.
Upcoming and Past Workshops and Conferences about Space & Climate
Upcoming Workshops
- ESA’s Teach with Earth from Space Workshop
- Note: Secondary teachers should note the application deadline of August 15, 2024.
Past Conferences
Additional Educational Initiatives
Innovative learning experiences to understand climate change:
- Space4Climate.org A fun, inspirational, educational experience. Only online, for schoolkids globally. “About space + climate using film & social-media”. Go check them out!
- Climate Fresk: An interactive online experience to rediscover the science behind climate change and inspire action.
- Clim4Edu: (Only in German) Materialien, die helfen, den Klimawandel in den naturwissenschaftlichen Unterricht zu integrieren.
- GUHEM Space and Climate Change Activity Toolkit: (Only in Turkish) Bu kitapçık Uzay ve İklim Değişikliği teması kapsamında etkinlik düzenlemek isteyenlere yardımcı olmak için hazırlandı.
Do you know any other space and climate change related resources that should be included in this list? Tell us at hello@worldspaceweek.org today!