Resumen de The Earth Science Education Unit's professional development workshop on "The carbon question - cycling, releasing, capturing" for teachers of key stages 3 and 4

Chris King

• The development of ESEU's new carbon-based CPD workshop is described, to give a flavour of the experience it might provide to science teachers and trainees.

  The revised National Curriculum for Science for key stages 3 and 4 (ages 11-16) in England provides the opportunity to develop a new coherent approach to teaching about the carbon cycle, the use of carbon as a fuel and the resulting issues. The Earth Science Education Unit (ESEU) intends to develop a new workshop to support the teaching of this topic. The format will mirror ESEU's successful methodology whereby teachers rehearse activities and demonstrations in a workshop and then receive additional materials to support classroom activity. Like all other ESEU workshops, "The carbon question - cycling, releasing, capturing" workshop will be available free to science departments and teacher training institutions.