The main objective of this project was to develop educators’ professional skills to ensure that critical thinking strategies and issues concerning media manipulation are part of the educational setting when teaching on climate change. Therefore, we created learning resources to teach the concept of media, media literacy, and developing critical thinking through creative methods available to use in online spaces and foster learners’ active and responsible engagement in protecting the climate. Accordingly, the project achieved the following objectives: 1. Developing and implement educational resources and materials for teaching on climate change and that are freely available online 2. Providing resources and tools for educators’ professional development 3. Creating a solid and long-lasting partnership 4. Improving the educational repertoire, services of the participating organizations in the subject of climate change
Climate change as a global phenomenon is the subject of intense debate in various public spaces, from the scientific to the rumour level. Even though there is a scientific consensus on human contribution to climate change, there are still many misconceptions about it, and due to its nature, mass media overemphasizes the harmful effects of global processes. Research shows that among young generation there is a high percentage of the anxiety and also boredom towards the issues of climate change. Also shown that a significant source of information for many people is the social media, a much less reliable source and the ethic of the mass media also changed significantly in the last decade: a flood of misconceptions and fake news is targeting the audience more often. The project based on the need ability to think critically which is crucial and more important than ever before. A critically thinking citizen can navigate among contradictory information, recognizing partial and biased sources. The project offered critical thinking approaches, activities to understand the power of information, gain more critical attitude focusing to the issues of the climate change.