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A new Climate for Design Education?

Last year, Sylvia Knight, Head of Education at the RMetS, talked to a Technology teacher on behalf of Pearson. 

The teachers we worked with on our project stressed that what they needed was support, particularly in rapidly-evolving areas like D&T. They mentioned wanting things like CPD resources for themselves, case studies, data, sample assessment questions and high-quality, adaptable lesson resources. In your opinion, within the constraints of the current specifications and national curriculum, what would help you improve the climate literacy of your students without increasing workload for you and your colleagues, or information overload for your learners?

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Climate Change and the Natural History GCSE

Last month, Sylvia Knight, Head of Education at the RMetS, talked to the OCR about the proposed Natural History GCSE. 

“Whilst the Natural History GCSE is not and should not be a ‘climate change GCSE’ (in my opinion, the Statistics GCSE is actually best placed to be delivered entirely within a context of climate change), the inherent and intrinsic links between climate change and the natural world, in terms of impacts, adaptation and mitigation, are too numerous for climate change not to be near the core of the new qualification.”

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Articles from Weather Magazine

The Young People’s Special Edition of Weather magazine, edited, written and illustrated by under 21s.

A low-cost experiment for determining raindrop size, J. Mazon and M. Vinas, 2013

Lewis Fry Richardson’s Forecast Factory – for Real, A Charlton-Perez and H Dacre, February 2011.

Effect of Climate Variability on School Attendance

Mapping Manchester’s Urban Heat Island, Knight, Smith & Roberts, 2010, 12

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Praise for Young People’s Weather

 

Some of the messages we havereceived about the Young People’s Special Edition of Weather:

Special Edition of Weather, young people in meteorology, was great – well done and hit all the right buttons!

Good piece on the forever-exciting feeling of launching a weather balloon by @RGSweather in the new @RMetS Young People’s edition.

Just received my hardcopy of the @RmetS Young People’s Special edition of Weather! Doesn’t it look great!

Well done to all who produced special young people’s edition of @RmetS Weather magazine. A compelling read – thanks.

It was very pleasing to read the latest edition of “Weather” on my train ride in this morning and I was hit by the standard of good writing and enthusiasm for the various subjects it included. I was most impressed with all the students contributions and I congratulate the efforts of the editor in putting it together. Please pass on my congratulations to all students involved as well. It is clear they put a lot of time and effort into their pieces and they are to be commended for them.

Our Young People’s Special Edition of Weather magazine is finally here and can be read at onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/wea.2015.70.issue-S1/issuetoc.

The edition was edited, written and illustrated by people under the age of 21 – some as young as 7! The photos are all winners and runners up from our photography competition, run earlier in 2015.