Online Course – Google Certified Professional Internship in Climate Change Information

Prepare yourself to teach about climate change. Discover how to teach the topic in a constructive and fun way, encouraging children and young people to use creativity and energy to find sustainable and long-term solutions to climate change.

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קורס אונליין - התמחות מקצועית מוסמכת במידע על שינויי האקלים של Google

Professional Certificate

Intermediate level

No prior knowledge required

Time to complete the course

7-day free trial

No unnecessary risks

Skills you will acquire in the course

  • Tools and resources for dealing with climate change
  • Understanding the ethical and social questions of climate change
  • Using games to improve learning
  • Analysis of the impacts of climate change on water, energy, landscape, soil and health
  • Developing an action plan to reduce climate footprint
  • Reducing water use
  • Encouraging the use of sustainable energy sources
  • Reducing waste use
  • Encouraging responsible consumption of materials
  • Developing a risk reduction plan in the school community

What you will learn in the course

Courses for which the course is suitable

  • Elementary school teachers
  • High school teachers
  • Science educators
  • School principals
  • Sustainability consultants
  • Social activists in the environmental field
  • Climate change curriculum planners
  • Public health experts
  • Community leaders in the field of sustainability
  • Climate change researchers

Internship – 3-part course series

This specialization offers tools and resources created as part of the International Development Bank’s (IDB) “Soviet” initiative, with the aim of tackling climate change and improving the sustainability of the planet.

During the three courses that make up the specialization, you will learn what can be done as individuals, as educational institutions, and as a community to live more sustainable and healthier lives, the key ethical and social questions of climate change, how to use games to support and enhance learning, and the main impacts of climate change on water, energy, landscape, land, and our health.

Target audience

This program is intended for teachers in primary and secondary schools in Latin American and Caribbean countries who teach science and topics related to climate change and the environment.

Hands-on Learning Project

The aim of this program is to promote actions to mitigate the impacts and adapt to climate change in their schools. To achieve this goal, participants will be required to develop at least one specific activity:

  • Conduct an analysis of the conditions at the school.
  • Develop an action plan to reduce their school community’s climate footprint (for example, reducing water use, encouraging the use of sustainable energy sources in school, reducing waste use in school, or encouraging responsible consumption of materials).
  • Develop a risk reduction plan in the school community, with the aim of acclimatizing to climate change.

Details of the courses that make up the specialization

Climate change education

Course 1: Energy and Ecological Footprint

Duration: 6 hours

Rating: 4.8 (13 ratings)

What you’ll learn:

  • Identify what climate change is and how it is related to factors such as climate, Earth systems, and energy.
  • Create a diagnosis of ecological awareness and motivation to understand the causes, effects, and risks of climate change in the short and long term.
  • Identify and promote actions at the global and local levels to mitigate climate change.

Skills you will acquire:

  • teaching
  • Education
  • water
  • thorough
  • Climate change

Course 2: Water and Soil

Duration: 6 hours

What you’ll learn:

  • Identify the connection between water, climate change, and the adaptation of living things.
  • Learn about the connection between nutrition, agriculture and climate change.
  • Identify climate change adaptation and associated risks, and conduct an analysis of threats at school.

Skills you will acquire:

  • teaching
  • Education
  • learning
  • water
  • Climate change

Course 3: Sustainable Environments

Duration: 8 hours

What you’ll learn:

  • Identify the elements that make up the landscape, the natural disasters, and the human actions that contribute to its change.
  • Learn about the impacts of cities, consumption, and our ecological footprint on the environment.
  • Identify the impact of climate change on our health and the actions that need to be taken to create healthier environments.

Skills you will acquire:

  • Education
  • Climate change
  • Sustainability

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