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Climate Change Club in a Box
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This session delves deeper into 'understanding' climate change - why it's happening and its global impacts. Children will have the opportunity to view the earth from the perspective of an astronaut, appreciating its beauty and fragility. The session concludes with a game of 'Climate Change Dodgeball', to reinforce the role of greenhouse gases in trapping heat from the sun.
In this session, children are encouraged to consider electricity use in their own homes and what factors might influence this. They will also explore both renewable and non-renewable energy sources, competing to guess how much of the UK electricity grid is being supplied by renewable energy at this very moment! Finally, pupils will create and play their own version of ‘Renewables Top Trumps’.
The session begins with an introduction to the Sustainable Development Goals giving children the opportunity to set their own goals for a more sustainable future. Pupils can then explore the connection between water and climate change, including addressing the global issue of water scarcity and its impact on the lives of others. The session finishes with practical tips for saving water and a call to action for students to become 'water wizards'.
Climate Conversations highlights the importance of talking about climate issues and sharing ideas with classmates, family, and the wider community. The overall goal is to make climate conversations normal, engaging, and action-focused for young people. Children are encouraged to create their own “conversation starter” speech bubbles and to talk about climate change with someone during the week.
This session begins by encouraging children to think about where their fruit comes from, raising awareness of how climate change is impacting harvests globally and locally. We then explore global harvests and how farmers around the world are affected by the climate crisis. The session concludes with children researching where their own food comes from.
This presentation aims to spark curiosity about our environmental footprints and recycling. It encourages young people to ask, “But why?” about recycling and environmental actions, fostering a mindset of curiosity and critical thinking. Children are able to track the journey of a fizzy drink can from production to disposal, thinking carefully about its environmental footprint. Finally, pupils learn about a range of influential ‘zero waste warriors’ and are encouraged to think carefully about how they could reduce their own waste.
This session introduces climate change as a complex, ‘super wicked problem’ and encourages students to think critically about its causes, effects, and solutions. Through interactive activities—like abstract art, discussions about innovators, and mapping local problem-solvers—students explore how everyone is impacted and how anyone can help. The presentation highlights real-world examples, such as seaweed innovations and ice stupas, and inspires personal action by asking students to choose and commit to climate-friendly behaviours. The overall message: everyone can be a climate change problem-solver.
This resource encourages children to think about climate change beyond their own country, considering voices from the “climate frontlines”. Using real life stories from children around the world, children are able to explore the issue of climate injustice, thinking deeply about what has led to this imbalance. Finally, children have the opportunity to create their own ‘Snakes and Ladders’ game based on what they have learnt.
Here, we encourage children to appreciate how amazing our natural world is, including creating a ‘feelings in nature’ collage and exploring with each of the five senses. We then delve deeper into the carbon cycle – finding out about how we can protect our forests and oceans. Finally, children are encouraged to think about they can help nature on their own doorsteps.
This Climate Change Club in a Box session explores how food choices impact climate change, focusing on plant-based eating and food waste. Children will use the BBC ‘Climate Change Food Calculator’ to discover their own carbon footprint and explore new recipes, encouraging them to be more adventurous with their choices. Finally, pupils will become entrepreneurs competing in a Dragons Den style competition to earn investments for their sustainable food projects.
This session focuses on the environmental impacts of consumption choices, with a specific focus on fast-fashion, plastics, and palm oil. Through exploring activities such as the life cycle of a t-shirt and learning about the idea of circular economy, we emphasise to children that individual choices matter and that everyone can contribute to positive change by supporting sustainable initiatives, and inspiring others.
This session helps to bring together everything children have learnt already. Children explore what it means to live sustainably and identify characteristics of a “Young Climate Warrior” as well as discussing the barriers that might be stopping people from taking action. Pupils can examine climate projects worldwide (like plant-based plastics and fungi leather) and discuss how to get involved locally. The presentation ends by inviting participants to share their own climate action stories and creative projects.
Our newest Climate Change Club in a Box resource is all about exploring children's eco-emotions. Developed with support and advice from Dr Louise Edgington (Climate Minds Coalition), this session is designed to facilitate, and simplify group discussion. It includes step-by-step suggestions and techniques to help manage children's worries, embrace emotions and harness them to help bring about positive changes for our planet.