A MOOC on the Science of Climate Change for primary and secondary teachers in Spanish

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 secondary teachers. In this paper, we describe how this course can contribute in the preparation of young generations to mobilize the society in the face of this very important problem. We discuss the general guidelines that were used to design the course and how these principles perfectly match the characteristics of the MOOC platform.