We have just relaunched our popular educational website - MetLink with new and updated resources, a new design and improved functionality.
MetLink originally launched in early 2010, with weather and climate resources aimed at primary and secondary school teachers, students and the general public. The site and newsletter subscriptions have grown over the past decade with resources including schemes of work, lesson resources, ideas for experiments and demonstrations and fieldwork, as well as teacher CPD.
In a year where climate stories will be higher on the news agenda with COP26 taking place in Glasgow in November, we believe that every student should leave school with the basic climate literacy that would enable them to engage with the messages put forward by the media or politicians, or to make informed decisions about their own opportunities and responsibilities. We also hope that every student leaves school with the basic weather literacy that allows them to understand the weather that affects them, their leisure activities and the careers they choose to follow.
Working with teachers and educational institutions the Society has aimed to provide all the resources needed for teaching weather and climate in order to enthuse and support the next generation of meteorologists, from childhood to adolescence.
Some of the new resources include chemistry-based subjects for secondary science, on topics such as carbon footprints, particulate matter, ice albedo and melting as well as ocean acidification and CO2 absorption.
There is also an update to the award-winning climate negotiations resource, which simulates the negotiation process that created the 2015 Paris Agreement and will help bring COP26 to life. New video input from Jolene Cook, Head of Climate Science in the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) COP26 Unit, helps to set the scene before negotiations start.
Dr Sylvia Knight, Head of Education at the Royal Meteorological Society said: “I am so encouraged to see young people taking the initiative and taking action to keep the climate crisis on the global political and news agenda this year. We hope that with the improvements we have made to MetLink and our resources, we can continue to support as many people as possible in their understanding of weather and climate and enable them to become more involved at a time when it is critical that we take the opportunities offered by COVID to build back greener.”
If you haven’t already visited, please check out the fantastic resources freely available to all via www.metlink.org
