Climate Change is one of the most challenging problems that humanity faces today. To
understand the magnitude and significance of the problem, society should use education as
a way to create a fair, coherent and coordinated response. In this paper we describe the
motivations, the design principles and the contents of a course that has been created to
explain the science of Climate Change in simple but rigorous terms. We have created a
Massive Online Open Course (MOOC) about the Science of Climate Change for primary and …