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Campaign against Climate Change
As well as the following links to educational materials about climate change for use in schools, the Campaign against Climate Change (based in London) has useful information on the current impacts of climate change, a good blog, ways to take … Continue reading →
Climate change education resources
This list was produced by Ben Ballin and published by Sustainability and Environmental Education (SEEd) News. Most, but not all, of these resources are accessible online without cost. Contents of this page Teaching resources, stimulus materials and programmesPolicy and backgroundNetworks, … Continue reading →
Climate Change Project Ideas
Here are some ideas for projects to be run by school students who want to make their peers more aware of active in fighting against climate change. Contents of this page ECOSOC Youth ForumYoung Reporters for the EnvironmentOperation NoahBBC Young … Continue reading →
Climate Change Teacher Course
The UNESCO course on Climate Change Education for Sustainable Development (CCESD) for secondary teachers is designed to give teachers confidence, through a series of six-day programmes, to help young people understand the causes and consequences of climate change today. The … Continue reading →
Climate Changemakers
The Climate Changemakers lesson plan, created by World’s Largest Lesson, invites children aged 8+ to reflect on why they think learning about climate change is important and why it matters to them. Next, they are invited to write a message … Continue reading →
Climate Reality Project Global Education Group
Climate Reality is a group founded by former US Vice President Al Gore to move the conversation forward and turn awareness into action all across the Earth. It is a US-based diverse group of passionate individuals who’ve come together to solve … Continue reading →
Deep Adaptation
Professor Jem Bendell from the University of Cumbria published a paper Deep Adaptation: A Map for Navigating Climate Tragedy in which he concludes that recent research suggests that human societies will experience disruptions to their basic functioning within less than ten … Continue reading →
Eco-Schools
Eco-Schools is a global programme engaging 19.5 million children across 67 countries, making it the largest educational programme on the planet. For nearly 25 years Eco-Schools has been empowering children to drive change and improve their environmental awareness through the … Continue reading →
Educational Materials for COP26
Our Climate Our Future contains free COP26 school materials, created by Twinkl in collaboration with World Wildlife Fund (WWF) and Partners. Our Climate Our Future resources were created to bring the UN Climate Change Conference (COP26) into the classroom in … Continue reading →
Mindfulness Minutes
Thanks to a generous donation Eco-Schools have been able to create Mindfulness Minutes: a national call to action aimed at promoting mental well-being in schools across England. Mindfulness Minutes Seven Step Guide Many of us live our lives rushing through … Continue reading →
Mother Earth Project
Mother Earth Project™, MEP, is an people empowerment campaign that encourages communities worldwide to commit to sustainable actions and Sustainable Development Goals, SDGs, filled with daily acts of saving and protecting our planet. Using artwork as the catalyst for bringing … Continue reading →
One UN Climate Change Learning Partnership (UN CC:Learn)
The <em>One UN Climate Change Learning Partnership </em>(UN CC:Learn) is a collaborative initiative of more than 30 multilateral organizations supporting countries to design and implement systematic, recurrent and results-oriented climate change learning. The initiative was launched at the 2009 Copenhagen Climate Change Summit. UNCCLearn believes that every school … Continue reading →
Sustainable Development Goals
There are 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) that were unanimously adopted by the 193 Member States of the United Nations at a historic summit in September 2015. The following is a summary of these goals. The full text of the 2030 Agenda … Continue reading →
Talking to Young People About Climate Change
The World’s Largest Lesson has produced a simple guide to help teachers and others get started in how to address anxiety and encourage optimism without downplaying the urgency of the situation. Find out more here. It supports their learning resources … Continue reading →
The Briefcase of Mineral Applications
The Briefcase project is a new educational tool produced by FabLab Coventry that uses hands-on learning strategies to teach students about the important role of mineral raw materials in everyday life and how our choices concerning these materials can shape … Continue reading →
The Great Big School Clean
In 2019, 175,000 young people got involved in the Great Big School Clean, but this year – with the help of Steve Backshall – we want to make it even bigger and better, for an even cleaner and greener environment! … Continue reading →
Transform Our World
Transform Our World is an online, centralised, quality-rated resource hub to help teachers to bring environmental action into the classroom. Developed by Global Action Plan and supported by the #iwill Campaign, Transform Our World is a hub full of free, … Continue reading →
Water Explorer
Water Explorer, Global Action Plan’s award-winning programme for students aged 8-14 that aims to get thousands of young leaders to learn about the value of water in a fun, engaging way and save water at the same time. The Water … Continue reading →
World’s Largest Lesson
World’s Largest Lesson promotes use of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) in learning so that children can contribute to a better future for all. The programme produces creative tools for educators and action focussed learning experiences for children and young … Continue reading →
See also
Coventry Climate Action Network https://covcan.uk/categories/
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