Debunking environmental misconceptions and navigating green information.

This 5-day programme equips teachers with tools and strategies to help students think critically about environmental issues. In today’s classrooms, students are surrounded by conflicting messages about climate change, recycling, biodiversity, and sustainability. Some information is accurate and evidence-based, but much is oversimplified, biased, or misleading.

This course helps teachers turn these challenges into learning opportunities. You will learn how to identify common environmental misconceptions, guide students in evaluating sources, and use structured dialogues and interactive activities to strengthen their ability to question, compare, and reflect. The goal is to create a classroom where students not only gain knowledge about sustainability but also develop the skills to separate fact from opinion, evidence from myth.

This training is designed for primary, secondary, and VET teachers who want to:

• Support students in developing critical thinking as part of their green competences
• Address environmental misconceptions directly and confidently
• Make lessons more interactive through debates, dialogues, and inquiry-based methods
• Strengthen students’ ability to evaluate sources, media, and everyday claims about the environment

By the end of the training, participants will be able to:

• Recognise common misconceptions in environmental education (e.g. “the greenhouse effect is harmful,” “biodegradable always means harmless”)
• Design lessons that encourage students to question and analyse environmental information
• Apply dialogue-based teaching methods where students explore different viewpoints before drawing conclusions
• Use simple frameworks for evaluating sources of information (reliability, bias, evidence)
• Turn misinformation into a learning opportunity instead of a barrier
• Foster a classroom culture where curiosity, questioning, and respectful disagreement are welcomed

The programme helps teachers to deal with real classroom challenges where misinformation often blocks understanding, and will support teachers to equip their students with skills they will use far beyond environmental education. Additionally, the programme is packed with ready-to-use classroom activities, dialogues, and evaluation tools which will give educators the confidence to address “difficult questions” without fear of controversy. 

Duration: 40 teaching hours – spread into 5 days.

Learning methods: workshops, active involvement of the learners, learning-by-doing, group learning, facilitation.

Location: České Budějovice and/or Prague.

Language: The course will be held in English language.

Term open for registration: Upon request – please fill in a contact form and we will get back to you.

Travel days: one day before and after the course term or according to the mutual agreement with the sending organisation.

Course fee: The price includes the course fee and all training materials. 

Individual subsistence costs: The price includes accommodation for the duration of the course (full board), all transportation within the Czech Republic, and any selected cultural activities.

Please note, the price does not include flight tickets to and from Prague. 

Our pricing follows Erasmus+ regulations, but we will provide a tailored quote once we receive your enquiry.