The Gwacheon National Science Museum (Director Lee Chung-won) will run the ‘2026 Joint Cooperation Special Climate-Change Program of Research-Type Responsible Operating Institutions’ for elementary school students at the Natural History Hall’s exploration classroom on Saturday, October 3. Researchers from a range of fields — national heritage, plants, animals, agriculture and livestock, marine science, and safety — will personally step forward to share stories about climate change at a level children can grasp.
 [코리안투데이] Poster for the Gwacheon National Science Museum’s special climate-change program © 장형임 기자 |
This program was prepared as part of ‘Integrated National-Institute Response Measures for Managing Climate-Crisis Risks,’ a collaborative project among research-type responsible operating institutions. It is run as expert-led education under the museum’s nature-and-city exploration program NORIAN (Nature Observation Regional Insight–AN).
The effects of climate change are not confined to living things or the environment alone. They reach many areas of daily life — the fruits and vegetables we eat, the plants, animals and seas around us, and even our national heritage. In this program, researchers from several national institutes take part in person to introduce their climate-change research findings and real research cases at a child’s eye level, and it is designed so that children can understand climate change by connecting it to changes in the nature and everyday life around them.
Seven research institutes are taking part: the National Institute of Fisheries Science (Director Kwon Soon-wook), the National Research Institute of Cultural Heritage (Acting Director Kwak Soo-cheol), the National Institute of Horticultural and Herbal Science (Director Kim Dae-hyun), the Korea National Arboretum (Director Ahn Byung-ki), the National Institute of Biological Resources (Director Yoo Ho), the National Institute of Animal Science (Director Cho Yong-min), and the National Fire Research Institute (Director Kim Yeon-sang).
Session 1 (11:00–12:00), themed on culture and plants, features the National Research Institute of Cultural Heritage’s ‘National Heritage Guardians: Protect Our Precious Heritage,’ the National Institute of Horticultural and Herbal Science’s ‘When the Climate Changes, So Do Our Fruits and Vegetables,’ and the Korea National Arboretum’s ‘The Plant Traffic Light Is On! A Climate-Change Emergency.’
Session 2 (13:50–14:50), themed on animals, continues with the National Institute of Biological Resources’ ‘The Tale of Korea’s Tree Frog and the Three Pit Viper Brothers,’ the National Institute of Animal Science’s ‘The State of Climate-Change Research in the Livestock Sector,’ and the National Institute of Fisheries Science’s ‘The Warming Sea — Where Have the Fish Gone?’ In particular, at the National Institute of Biological Resources, researcher Do Min-seok — known on YouTube as the ‘Snake-and-Frog Uncle’ — will take the stage as a speaker, introducing the tale of Korea’s tree frog and the three pit viper brothers so that children can understand the creatures and environment around them in an easy and enjoyable way.
Session 3 (15:00–16:00), themed on safety, features the National Fire Research Institute’s lecture ‘School Chemical Safety with 119.’
The program is open to elementary students in grades 1 through 6, with 25 participants per session for a total of 75, and participation is free. Advance registration is available on the Gwacheon National Science Museum website from 10 a.m. on Tuesday, September 29 to 5 p.m. on Friday, October 2. If seats remain after advance registration, on-site entry on a first-come, first-served basis will also be possible on the day of the event.
Director Lee Chung-won of the Gwacheon National Science Museum said, ‘Climate change is connected to many areas of our lives — from the fruits and vegetables we eat to the plants and animals around us, the sea, and our national heritage,’ adding, ‘I hope that, through the vivid stories told by researchers from various fields, this becomes an occasion for children to view climate change from a new perspective and to observe and reflect on the changes around them for themselves.’
Going forward, the Gwacheon National Science Museum plans to link the expertise of research institutes with the museum’s science-communication capabilities to turn specialized research findings into science-culture content that the public can encounter easily and comfortably, and to continue expanding cooperation between research institutes and the museum. By helping children feel a phenomenon as seemingly distant from the classroom as climate change right in the fruit on their table and the tree frogs in their alleyways, this program is expected to become an opportunity to nurture the next generation’s environmental sensibility.
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