ABSTRACT
This chapter outlines science and STEM approaches to teaching climate change in the primary classroom. Primary science is a way of thinking and doing. Science in primary school is concerned with asking questions and finding ways of answering them through exploration, investigation and innovation. The main reason for teaching primary science is to extend the children's innate curiosity and natural urge to explore their immediate environment. The emphasis is on developing a way of exploring and thinking in order to investigate ourselves and the environment. It allows children to see an experimental world where everything they encounter can be subject to scientific exploration. STEM activities and the practice of scientific process skills can play a key role in exploring and providing possible solutions to the causes and impacts of climate change through questioning, observing, predicting, investigating, analysing information and communicating.
