Quick Facts

Medium Of Instructions	Mode Of Learning	Mode Of Delivery
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

Certificate Availability
no

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

Knowledge of ChemistryKnowledge of physicsKnowledge of BiologyKnowledge of GeographyKnowledge of EconomicsStatistical skillsMathematical skill

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

Teacher

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)

1: How long do you expect the programme to last?

The Climate Change: A Guide For Teachers Of All Disciplines certification will last 16 weeks and will be completed entirely online.

2: How is the programme tailored to the candidates?

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.

3: How much does the course curriculum cost?

The Climate Change: A Guide For Teachers Of All Disciplines certification fees has no set amount for enrolment.

4: Where can I find the program's registration link?

Candidates interested in taking this course must first register online at this link. https://onlinecourses.swayam2.ac.in/arp20_ap06/preview

5: What are some of the course curriculum offerings offered?

This course includes video tutorials, books, references, printable reading materials, self-assessment assessments, online discussion boards, and quizzes.

6: When will the application for enrollment be available?

Because this is a continuing course of study, enrollment is currently closed; however, enrollment will re-open soon.

7: What is the programme's difficulty level experienced ?

Enrollment in the program is not limited to a particular level of difficulty.

8: What are the primary topics covered in this course?

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.