Here you will find educational resources that introduces elementary and secondary students to the carbon cycle and climate change and related topics, helping build awareness of this urgent issue. Each topic covered in the resources has its own activity-game: Interactive resources

There is also a booklet that includes summarized content: Booklet: carbon cycle and climate change

Current languages available: English (original), Portuguese, Spanish, and Catalan.

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These resources were first created and developed for Drive it down! Measuring and mitigating school-gate transport emissions – Earth Sciences New Zealand | GNS Science | Te Pῡ Ao

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Credits and acknowledgements

 -Autores-

Basado en el folleto diseñado por Michelle Cosnett ; Escrito por Leigh Fleming; editado por Jocelyn Turnbull, Vanessa Monteiro, Erin Edmonds y Cybelli Barbosa; Ilustraciones de Michelle Cosnett (Buravleva Stock, Envato) y de Cybelli Barbosa (Pexels, Canva, Genially); Gráficos de Donna Hiraina y Vanessa Monteiro; Maquetación y edición de Cybelli Barbosa

-Créditos de las imágenes-

Figura del registro de CO₂ proporcionada por NIWA; Imágenes de archivo de Envato, Pexels e iStock Getty Images

-Agradecimientos-

Basado en el folleto creado como parte de «Drive it down! Measuring and mitigating school-gate emissions”».

Este proyecto, incluidos los recursos educativos, fue posible gracias a:

  • Ministry of Business, Innovation and Employment – Unlocking Curious Minds Fund (2024)
  • Wellington Doctoral Scholarship from Te Herenga Waka Victoria University of Wellington (Vanessa Monteiro)
  • University of California Berkeley (low-cost sensors)
  • MBIE – Endeavor Research Programme CarbonWatch-Urban (2023)
  • Royal Society Catalyst Fund (2021)

-Traducción y adaptación al español y catalan –

Leonela Espinoza (Darmouth College) y Vanessa Monteiro (Institut de Ciència i Tecnologia Ambientals de la Universitat Autónoma de Barcelona)

Traducción y adaptación possible gracias a: 

  • John Sloan Dickey Center for International Understanding: Build Your Own Internship funding program (Leonela Espinoza)
  • ICTA-UAB “María de Maeztu” Programme for Units of Excellence of the Spanish Ministry of Science, Innovation and Universities (CEX2024-001506-M funded by MICIU/AEI/10.13039/501100011033).
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Current languages available: English, Swiss German, German, and French

These resources were developed under the ICOS Cities project (2021-2025).

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