Activity 1: Introduction to climate change

• Introduction to the theme of climate change as a border interdisciplinary theme, which is placed among multiple disciplines and as a topic at the centre of the debate between science and society.

Duration: 60-90 minutes

Objectives:

• Acquisition of content skills related to climate change and in part to complex systems
• Acquisition of teaching and communication skills on climate change

The lesson will be structured in such a way as to touch upon the following points:

• Climate variability as a complex system
• What are climate change and climate crisis
• Global warming
• The causes of climate change
• The consequences of climate change
• Difficulties in communicating climate change to the general public and difficulties in the understanding of the multiple factors concerning climate change.
• Presentation of the project STAGE

The lecture will focus in particular on the last two points, since the target is made up of students of master degree who are pre-service teachers or communicators. They are therefore supposed to have basic knowledge of complex systems and climate change, and that they want to deepen their knowledge of how to communicate complex issues to a group of students or to a particular audience.