On 21 April at 7.00 pm, the Auditorium at the CSIC’s Casa de la Ciencia in Valencia will host the launch of the educational project “Climate and Environmental Crisis Detectives”, an initiative launched by the CSIC to strengthen pupils’ scientific education and combat misinformation surrounding the climate and environmental crisis.
Despite the efforts made by the scientific community to explain the causes and warn of the imminent consequences of our impact on the natural environment, the rise in hoaxes and fake news surrounding this issue – which spread rapidly and exponentially – is confusing teenagers, who are increasingly turning to social media for information. As an organisation committed to scientific rigour, the dissemination of science and scientific education, the CSIC presents the educational project “Climate and Environmental Crisis Detectives”.
This project has been developed by the “Environmental and Climate Crises” working group of the CSIC’s “Geosciences for a Sustainable Planet” initiative, aimed at secondary and sixth-form teachers, to promote education in earth and environmental sciences for pupils from 1º ESO to 2º Bachillerato. In a rigorous yet accessible manner, through six working sessions, we provide materials and content to help understand climate change and other current environmental issues based on the geosciences, such as soil and beach pollution, ocean acidification and water scarcity.
For the presentation of the project, we will be joined during the event by:
• Eugenia Gimeno García, a researcher at the University of Valencia’s Centre for Research on Desertification (CIDE), a joint centre run by the CSIC, the University of Valencia and the Valencian Regional Government, who will give a talk entitled: Soil: the silent resource.
• Ana Serra Perales, a researcher in the ScienceFlows group at the University of Valencia. She will give a talk entitled: Communication, education and the climate crisis: how educating young people can make a difference.
• Ana Moreno Caballud, Research Scientist in the Department of Geo-Environmental Processes and Global Change at the Pyrenean Institute of Ecology (IPE, CSIC) in Zaragoza and Coordinator of the ‘Climate and Environmental Crisis Detectives’ project, who will present the materials produced.
Following the researchers’ presentations, there will be a session for questions and discussion for attendees.
No registration required. Free admission subject to availability.
Organised by: Centre for Research on Desertification (CIDE, CSIC-UV-GVA) and the CSIC House of Science in Valencia.
In collaboration with: Unit for Scientific Culture and Innovation at the University of Valencia.
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