ACT (Avoid Climate Trauma Now)

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Resource Type Lessons, Teaching Resources, Example Programs and Live Lessons, Schemes of Work (Programming Units and Curriculum)

Curriculum Topic Computational Thinking, Ethics, Impact of technology, Programming

English Key Stage 11-14 year (KS3), 14-16 years (KS4), 16-18 Years (KS5)

Winning submission to the Climate Change Challenge at COP28 https://www.sbs.ox.ac.uk/about-us/school/sustainability/climate-change-challenge/climate-change-challenge-winning-teachers

There are 4 distinct lessons (but these can be increased to accommodate skill acquisition) using the calculation of carbon calculation as the focus.

The lessons encourage students to use trigonometry to measure the height of trees as a basis for calculating the carbon in a tree.

Armed with data collected, students consider how to incorporate a formula to automatically output the amount of carbon in a tree.

A core element of this scheme of work is asking the question "Do scientists have a moral responsibility?". This can act as a much deeper investigation of what issues we have in dealing with climate change and how we can develop tools towards solving problems.

Do adapt, for example this would work with something Tkinter or other graphical interfaces. If you improve, do repost.

Let me know how you get on. I've gone through several iterations of this and will no doubt go through more.