Climate
Climate: Teaching Material and School Courses (understanding our climate is simply vital)
Wir haben es alle gewußt: We all know about the climate crisis and the extent of the imminent catastrophe.
Let us also be aware that right now is the best time to act to mitigate the coming climate changes and their consequences.
Therefore I am involved with the Scientists4Future Mainz/Wiesbaden:
- As a physicist, I understand the basics of climate physics.
- As a physicist working on didactics, I know how to explain them.
- As a human being, it is my duty to act.
- In community this works best.
Every child can easily understand the basic principles of climate physics. For me it is important...
- to explain these basics in an age-appropriate, understandable, correct, and consistent way,
- to link this knowledge with everyday life in an appreciative atmosphere,
- to respond to the different needs of individuals and at the same time to promote cooperation,
and to convey that (and how) all of us can contribute to the solution.
My goal is to develop courses that build on one another and that can be meaningfully integrated into the school curriculum for different age groups.
Teaching material "Our Climate and Us" for 3rd-6th grade:
material for download (in German)
- complete material including a story, further homework assignment, and information for teachers
- created in collaboration between students and scientists from FridaysForFuture and Scientists4Future Mainz/Wiesbaden
Climate Academy for upper high-school students
current informationen and registration
- annual academy on the campus of Mainz University lasting several days
- interdisciplinary, covering the basics of climate physics, the effects of climate change, and the development of individual options to become engaged in view of the climate crisis
Teaching material on climate physics:
A teaching unit "Our Climate and Us" ("Unser Klima und wir", in German) for the 3rd-6th grade is finalized. Based on this teaching unit and a completed bachelor thesis on the topic of "colors", a comparable teaching unit "The Colors of Our Climate" for the 7th/8th grade (1st year of physics instruction) should be created, carried out and subjectively evaluated. Keywords: Blackbody radiation, intensity distribution, scattering of light, and human light perception, sensibly simplified in the context "climate" such that a basis for future instruction is formed; open-ended tasks using a variaty of methods; internal differentiation; group work; securing of results.
- Creation, test, and subjective evaluation of a teaching unit "The Colors of Our Climate" for the first year of physics instruction at middle school (one or two Master of Education theses)