Dataset "What children know and want to know about climate change: a prior-knowledge self-assessment"

Dataset: Responses to two open questionnaires: Questionnaire1: "What do you know about climate change?"; Questionnaire 2: "Waht do you want to know about climate change?" Applied to middle school students, from the ages of 10 (5th grade) until the ages of 13 (8th grade), at schools "Escola Básica e Secundária Dr. Pascoal José de Mello" and "Escola Nº 2 de Avelar" from the municipality of Ansião at the central region of Portugal. The survey was applied to students both individually (n=106) and in group (n= 60), encompassing a total of 417 students. Due to logistical reasons, it was no possible to gather individual questionnaires for the 5th grade.