Copernicus Browser Teacher Guide
The goal of this guide is to help teachers navigate the main tools of the Copernicus Browser and demonstrate how to use them with their students in the classroom. To showcase its utility, we will delve into and analyse a case study, the focus will be on an extreme drought event in 2015 at Lake Poopó, the second biggest lake in Bolivia, which completely dried out for an extended period.
Satellite imagery, provided in a user-friendly way from the Copernicus Browser, is a powerful tool for researchers, decision makers and the general public, but it can also be a powerful tool for educators, touching on very interdisciplinary matters of our modern societies, such as climate change and sustainability, which require the combination of subjects like language, social sciences, physics and more.
Subject Biology, Geography, Physics, Environmental Sciences
The case study will be used to:
- demonstrate the complexity of climate change and the impact of extreme climatic events over time
- initiate discussions surrounding climate change, incorporating political narratives by using EO data
- guide the student on the first steps of how to conduct online research on a subject matter
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