10 Global Warming Lessons

1. The Great Climate System

Learn why the climate is changing, why our planet is warming, and how these global issues affect our life today with EdApp’s The Great Climate System. This course was designed in collaboration with AXA Climate, which aims to educate employees and companies around the world about the state of our climate.

This course's material is presented in a series of short quizzes. What’s great about it is that there will be an in-depth explanation of each topic that will pop up for every answer. The quiz topics are mostly focused on the Earth’s climate system, climate crises such as the greenhouse effect and energy excess, and climate consequences that we're experiencing today. 

The climate change worksheets also delves into the concept of Keeling Curve, which can help you gain a better understanding of how our climate is changing faster than usual. The last lesson contains scientific predictions on how our future will look, alongside best practices to curb the effects of climate change. 

All courses from EdApp are designed to respond to any devices like laptops, tablets, and smartphones. This gives you the ultimate flexibility to take the course anytime and anywhere you prefer. 

• Cost: Free
• Scope: Earth’s Climate System, the greenhouse effect, energy excess, climate consequences, Keeling Curve, future prediction

Created by EdApp

3. Energy, Environment, and Everyday Life

Coursera’s Energy, Environment, and Everyday Life has everything you need to know about the basic principles of energy sources. This includes the best forms used around the world, their biggest consumers, and the big companies that produce them. It sheds light on the global use of fossil fuels, followed by their environmental effects, like global warming and acid rain. You can also use this course to gain a deeper knowledge about renewable energy sources and nuclear power solutions, and how they can potentially help (or harm) the planet. 

This course follows a self-paced format with deadlines that can be adjusted to your schedule. 

• Cost: Free (limited time only)
• Scope: Basic principles of energy sources, fossil fuels and their environmental effects, renewable energy sources, nuclear power solutions

Created by Coursera

5. The Collapse of Biodiversity

When talking about global warming and climate change, the term "biodiversity" often pops up. But what does it really mean? In EdApp’s The Collapse of Biodiversity, you’ll get to explore what biodiversity is and how global warming affects it. 

This course consists of a series of bite-sized quizzes discussing crucial topics such as species and ecosystems, the food chain, genetic diversity, and evolution. It also explains what extinction is and how the past five extinctions are linked to climate change and the continuous warming of our planet. 

What’s more, this global warming lesson goes over the collapse of the coral reefs and the actions taken by researchers to revive the devastated reefs. The last part of this lesson includes a detailed look at land use, overexploitation, and climate pollution, and how these events are driving the possible sixth mass extinction. 

A key benefit of taking this course from this instructor app is that you can download it for offline use. Take it while you're on the bus on your way home, or while taking a quick coffee break, it's all up to you. 

• Cost: Free
• Scope: Biodiversity, species and ecosystem, evolution, mass extinctions, the collapse of coral reefs

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6. Climate Literacy and Action for All

FutureLearn also recommends its global warming lesson about Climate Literacy and Action for All to build your climate literacy and create more climate-conscious decisions. This three-week course will teach you how to calculate the greenhouse gas emissions of different human activities, as well as the most recommended climate solutions to reduce global warming. You’ll also learn how to create your own action plan and encourage your colleagues, friends, and family to join you in this climate battle. 

The great thing about this FutureLearn course is that you can join a global classroom and experience the power of social learning. You can share your ideas about global warming with people who are also taking this course, and also get their insights about this climate issue. 

• Cost: Free (limited time only)
• Scope: Ways to calculate greenhouse gas emissions, climate solutions, steps how to create your own action plan

Created by FutureLearn

8. Climate Change: From Learning to Action

The Climate Change: From Learning to Action course by UN CC:Learn has everything you need to build foundational knowledge about global warming and climate change. It explains in detail what climate change is, how this climate issue affects us, and some steps to mitigate it. After going through the basics, you’ll be introduced to climate negotiations and how you can plan and finance climate actions for a low-carbon future. 

The One UN Climate Change Learning Partnership (UN CC:Learn) is a knowledge-sharing platform built to make all learning resources about climate change easily accessible to everyone. This global warming lesson they offer is free, and it comes with a certificate that you can receive after getting a passing grade of 70% or more. 

• Cost: Free
• Scope: Climate change and how to mitigate it, climate negotiations, financing climate actions

Created by UN CC:Learn 

10. How to Talk to Children About Climate Change

Teaching children about climate change is the best way to open their minds about the global climate issues that we’re currently facing and encourage them to take part in saving our planet. 

EdApp’s How to Talk to Children About Climate Change starts with a lesson explaining why it’s crucial to educate children about global warming and climate change and the impact they have on the future. Then, it unpacks the best strategies on how to prepare the talking points about climate change, as well as how to structure your lesson for kids. This way, you don’t end up overwhelming them with too much information. 

This course also lists down ways how to make environment-friendly choices with your kids and how to involve the whole family in this fight against global warming. 

Following a microlearning design model, your lessons are delivered in short form, which you can conveniently finish in just minutes, and not days or hours. 

• Cost: Free
• Scope: The importance of educating children about climate change, the best ways to prepare and converse about climate change, how to make environment-friendly actions

Created by EdApp