Curriculum Development

Manus Island welcomes ARM Education.

The Atmospheric Radiation Measurement (ARM) Education and Outreach Program helped create a climate change curriculum and conducted workshops on this curriculum for the Tropical Western Pacific (TWP) Schools in Nauru, Manus, and Port Moresby in November of 1998 and May of 1999. The curriculum development was initiated at the request of Nauru and began in 1995. Two volumes of Climate Change and Sea Level, each with four modules per volume, were created to address physical science and social science of weather, climate change, and climate change effects. Each module contains background material and classroom activities. This curriculum was a collaboration between the Australian Agency for International Development (AusAID), the South Pacific Regional Environmental Program (SPREP), the National Tidal Facility (NTF) of Flinders University in Australia, and the Schools of the Pacific Rainfall Climate Experiment (SPaRCE) of the University of Oklahoma.