Geoscience is advancing rapidly while societies face increasingly pressing challenges related to climate change, natural hazards, water resources, environmental change and the sustainable use of Earth resources. Yet both frontier research and these rapidly evolving issues can take time to reach the classroom.

This session explores how frontier geoscience and pressing societal issues can be brought into teaching, making today’s science accessible, meaningful and engaging for students. Teachers are invited to share their experiences and approaches for translating recent discoveries, emerging research questions, new observations, methods and datasets into educational activities and resources.

Contributions may address topics across the geosciences and may involve real scientific data, field observations, experiments, digital tools, remote sensing, citizen science, inquiry-based learning, or interdisciplinary projects. Particular attention is given to approaches that allow students not only to learn established scientific knowledge, but also to engage with science in the making and to understand how geoscientists investigate the major challenges facing our planet and societies.

By sharing classroom and field experiences from different countries and educational contexts, this session aims to strengthen the connection between today’s geoscience research, tomorrow’s challenges and the classroom.

As an open poster session, it also provides an opportunity for the wider EGU community to discover and exchange around educational approaches developed within and beyond the GIFT community.