Civic scientific literacy: A teaching learning sequence on the climate change

The lack of adequate scientific knowledge can greatly affect citizens’ choices, with serious consequences for the social capability to face main global challenges such as climate change. Scientific Civic Education (SCE) has to play a central role in the school of the future decades. We will discuss redesigning a Teaching Learning Sequence (TLS) on the physical bases of the greenhouse effect (GHE) in which the restructuring has been aimed at combining the disciplinary aspects with the most typical themes of the SCE and the perception of science. We report the results of some tests with students at different levels of education and the relationships between scientific knowledge and civic awareness will be focused