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Quick Facts
| Medium Of Instructions | Mode Of Learning | Mode Of Delivery |
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| English | Self Study | Video and Text Based |
Course Overview
This Climate Change: A Guide For Teachers Of All Disciplines certification course discusses climate change as one of the significant issues affecting the present world and particularly society in terms of equitable and sustainable development. The course will discuss models and pedagogical methods for understanding environmental issues and help future participants to develop better solutions required to mitigate the detrimental effects caused by climate change.
The Climate Change: A Guide For Teachers Of All Disciplines training course content being taught at the basic college level and help teachers understand the science of climate change and how it affects their own discipline or specialization. The course will help to prepare teachers in pedagogy resources to integrate the concepts of climate science into the curriculum and assess the participants on both the science behind climate change and their own discipline specialization. Climate Change: A Guide For Teachers Of All Disciplines program curriculum makes the program suitable for teachers from all disciplines to take up this course.
The Highlights
- Course coordinated and convened by Rahul Chopra, visiting professor Ashoka University.
- 16 weeks of course content
- AICTE approved FDP course
- Course category in Annual Refresher Programme In Teaching (ARPIT).
Programme Offerings
- video lectures
- Powerpoints
- Educational resources
- Digital pedagogical tools
- Books
- Online discussion forums
- references
- quizzes
- Self assessment tests.
Courses and Certificate Fees
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Eligibility Criteria
Education
No particular information is given but the candidates enrolling should be teachers with appropriate qualifications for the Climate Change: A Guide For Teachers Of All Disciplines certification.
What you will learn
In Climate Change: A Guide For Teachers Of All Disciplines by SWAYAM the participants are taught the following :
- The candidates will be able to understand the basics of climate change and its impact in different timescales.
- Students will gain an understanding of glaciers melting, sea-level rise, water security and resources, and glaciers retreat in the programme.
- Participants will learn about climate refugees and historical climatology.
- Candidates will acquire knowledge about food production, agroecosystem, human health and disease in the course.
- Learners will gain insights on tools of Biodiversity, species and species distribution, human health, and microbes.
- Candidates will gain information on blackbody radiation, heat transport, convection, planetary energy balance, and energy and mass conservation.
- Students will be able to understand the carbon pricing, carbon taxes, economics, and geopolitics of oil from the economical perspective of climate change.
- Participants will get to learn the integration, trigonometry, differentiation, and calculus in the training.
Who it is for
Climate Change: A Guide For Teachers Of All Disciplines training is intended for
- Teachers from any discipline wish to understand the impact of climate change in both societies and in their area of teaching.
Application Details
The following steps must be taken to obtain secured admission in Climate Change: A Guide For Teachers Of All Disciplines online course.
Step 1: The programme can be registered here in the weblink attached https://onlinecourses.swayam2.ac.in/arp20_ap06/preview.
Step 2: the candidate must make an account that create an account that all the pertinent information and login to to the system website
Step 3: After redirection to the course page, the candidate can click on the Enroll option for registration.
Step 4: The candidate can complete registration with all the required information.
At present, the course is ongoing and not for enrollment.
The Syllabus
- Orbital timescales
- Historical timescales (Raghu Murtugudde, University of Maryland)
- Glacial/deglacial Timescales
- Tectonic timescales
- Millennial timescales
Climate change in the chemistry classroom
- Lesson plans and teaching tools on biogeochemical Cycles
- Atomic number
- The carbon cycle
- Molecular structure of compounds
- Atomic mass
- The electromagnetic spectrum
- Isotopes
- Ocean acidification
- Carbon chemistry (Rahul Chopra, Course Coordinator NRC Climate Change IISER Pune)
- Chemical weathering
- pH scale, acids, and bases
- The urey reaction
Climate change in the physics classroom
- Lesson plans and teaching tools on Blackbody Radiation
- Energy and mass conservation
- Convection
- Hadley circulation
- Coriolis force, electromagnetic spectrum
- Planck’s law
- Heat transport
- Stefan Boltzmann law. (Rahul Chopra, Course Coordinator NRC Climate Change IISER Pune)
- Planetary energy balance
Climate change in the maths and statistics classrooms
- Lesson plans and teaching tools on calculus
- Differentiation
- Integration
- Analysis
- Trigonometry
- Sine and cosine functions
- Uncertainty
- Tangent line problems
- Polynomial differentiation
- Linear regression
- Quadratic regression
- Errors
- Student's T distribution(Rahul Chopra, Course Coordinator NRC Climate Change IISER Pune)
- Correlation coefficients
- Time series
- Confidence intervals
Climate change in the biology classroom
- Lesson plans and teaching tools on biodiversity
- Species distribution and species habitats
- Species and speciation
- Phenology
- Phenophases
- Range shift
- Survival skills
- Flowering and bud burst
- Leaf-out
- Epidemiology
- Sex determination
- Microbes
- Human health
- Vector-borne diseases (Rahul Chopra, Course Coordinator NRC Climate Change IISER Pune)
Climate change in the geography classroom
- Coastal floods
- Urban heat islands
- Glacial retreat and glacial melting
- Lesson plans and teaching tools on glaciers
- Water resources and water security
- Sea Level Rise
Climate change in the social sciences classroom
- Lesson plans and teaching tools on climate refugees
- Climate change and children
- Environmental migration climate justice
- Food security
- Climate change and behavior
- Human health and disease (Rahul Chopra, Course Coordinator NRC Climate Change IISER Pune)
Climate change in the environmental sciences classroom
- Agro-ecosystems
- Human health and disease
- Lesson plans and teaching tools on water security
- Climate Justice
- Climate resilient agriculture
- Food production and
Climate change in the economics classroom
- Carbon pricing
- Poverty
- The tragedy of the Commons
- Lesson plans and teaching tools on Cost-benefit Analysis
- Economics and geopolitics of oil
- Global economy and energy
- Carbon taxes (Rahul Chopra, Course Coordinator NRC Climate Change IISER Pune)
Climate change in the humanities classroom
- Gender and climate-smart agriculture
- Climate fiction CliFi
- Lesson plans and teaching tools on climate change literature
- Climate and culture
- Historical climatology
- Climate change and human rights
- Climate refugees
- The decline of civilizations (Rahul Chopra, Course Coordinator NRC Climate Change IISER Pune)
Instructors
IISER Pune Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ's)
The Climate Change: A Guide For Teachers Of All Disciplines certification will last 16 weeks and will be completed entirely online.
The participants in Climate Change: A Guide For Teachers Of All Disciplines online course are introduced to several prominent topics in climate change with a special focus related to their specializations.
The Climate Change: A Guide For Teachers Of All Disciplines certification fees has no set amount for enrolment.
Candidates interested in taking this course must first register online at this link. https://onlinecourses.swayam2.ac.in/arp20_ap06/preview
This course includes video tutorials, books, references, printable reading materials, self-assessment assessments, online discussion boards, and quizzes.
Because this is a continuing course of study, enrollment is currently closed; however, enrollment will re-open soon.
Enrollment in the program is not limited to a particular level of difficulty.
The several topics in Climate Change: A Guide For Teachers Of All Disciplines certification syllabus covered are climate change, climate change on several scales, educational resources for coursework integration, climate change in several disciplines.