Subject Specific resources
Arts & Technology
Outside – US Magazine
Article on 10 artists on what climate change looks like.
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WWF UK merges art and campaigns using sustainable ocean materials.
Coat of Hopes
Artist Barbara Keal who, with many others, created a coat for World leader to wear at the UN Climate Summit, COP 26
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Art Uk – Art in the time of climate crisis – article – website
https://artuk.org/discover/stories/cop26-art-in-the-time-of-climate-crisisLink opens in a new window
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Teachwire – Protest Art activity resource inspired by Bob and Roberta Smith
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Rise Art – article on artists confronting climate change
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BBC 2 Inside Culture – Can Art Save the Planet? – 18 March 2022
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The climate change clues hidden in art history
Art historians are exploring their collections through a climate lens, revealing overlooked connections between our past and present, writes Diego Arguedas Ortiz.
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Emergency Jajuri
Emergency Jaruri জরুরী, is a digital exhibition across web and twitter, presenting Bangladeshi artists working with a focus on the complexities of the climate emergency.
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Climate Museum UK
Big Draw 2020 – climate of change
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Climate Museum UK
One of the collections of Climate Museum UK is songs and compositions about climate change (and the wider planetary crisis).
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UN Environment Programme
An article on musicians’ responses to the climate crisis
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Morningside Center for Teaching Social Responsibility
Article on music teaching to address the climate crisis
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Crayola
This free lesson plan uses music as a tool for raising awareness about sustainability, guiding students to analyse environmental songs and create their own musical campaigns promoting environmental protection and responsible behaviours.
https://www.crayola.com/learning/lesson-plans/singin-about-solutions
Subject to climate
This lesson plan supports students in exploring climate change through rap and songwriting, encouraging research, creative expression and performance to develop environmental awareness and emotional engagement with climate issues.
https://subjecttoclimate.org/lesson-plans/hip-hop-and-climate-creative-writing-lesson
Music Mark
This resource from Music Mark provides a free environmental songbook (One World Songbook) containing songs, lyrics and classroom materials that help pupils explore themes such as pollution, conservation and climate responsibility through singing and musical participation.
https://www.musicmark.org.uk/resources/free-music-to-change-the-world/
The Musical World
The Musical World website offers free access to songs, vocal scores and backing tracks designed for classroom use, enabling pupils to engage creatively with topics such as nature, the environment and global issues through music learning and performance activities.
https://www.musicalworld.co.uk/
Ergon Theatre - Ergon Theatre
Creates performance-based work about futures and the climate crisis
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PlayGreen
PlayGreen – where theatre and outdoor exploration collide
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A new Direction – Speeches that changed the world
A range of videos to support history and drama created by Butterfly Theatre Company
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Zinned Project
This role-play lesson invites students to participate in a mock trial exploring responsibility for climate change, encouraging dramatic performance, debate and critical thinking about climate justice and environmental decision-making.
https://www.zinnedproject.org/materials/the-climate-crisis-trial-role-play/
Office for Climate Education
This free classroom activity developed by the Office for Climate Education uses role-play and embodied drama techniques to help students physically represent greenhouse gases, heat and fossil fuels, enabling learners to develop a concrete understanding of how human actions contribute to global warming.
https://alec.oce.global/en/resources/class-activities/greenhouse-effect-role-playing-game
Friends of the Earth
These free curriculum-linked materials include cross-curricular activities such as drama and creative expression tasks, helping students explore climate justice, biodiversity loss and environmental responsibility.
https://friendsoftheearth.uk/climate/ks3-resources-climate-justice-hope-and-action
A New Direction - Nature inspired design
A range of resources to link nature with DT
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The Tech
This resource provides a systems design challenge where students brainstorm and develop innovative solutions to environmental problems, helping them understand the interconnected nature of sustainability issues while practising collaborative design processes.
https://www.thetech.org/education/education-resources/lessons/connecting-with-climate/
Teach Engineering
This engineering-focused lesson helps students explore how design decisions, materials and energy use influence climate change, supporting understanding of the role designers and engineers play in environmental sustainability.
https://www.teachengineering.org/lessons/view/cub_weather_lesson06
Climate Education Toolkit
This free guidance resource helps teachers integrate sustainability into Design & Technology projects, for example by encouraging students to design products using recycled materials and develop environmentally responsible design criteria.
https://climateeducationtoolkit.co.uk/curriculum-resources/how-to-guide/
Humanities
Church of England – sustainable schools
A range of schemes and resources to support primary and secondary schools to become more sustainable.
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Yale Forum on Religion and Ecology
A bank of statements from world religions on climate change.
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Yale Forum on Religion and Ecology
A range of excellent articles from diverse people on faith and climate change.
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The Parliament of World Religions
The Parliament of the World’s Religions, acting with the leadership of its Climate Action Task Force, seeks to encourage and enable collective and individual action to reduce and counter the adverse impacts of human-caused climate change.
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Faith Belief Forum
This free resource hub offers lesson plans, discussion guides, and project ideas for exploring climate change and environmental stewardship across different faiths, helping learners examine moral, spiritual, and communal responsibilities.
https://faithbeliefforum.org/resources/belief-and-the-environment/
Religious Education Council
This resource from the Religious Education Council provides a downloadable guide for teachers linking climate change with religious and ethical questions about stewardship, creation care, and human responsibility for the environment within the RE curriculum.
https://religiouseducationcouncil.org.uk/resource/learning-about-climate-change-in-re/
National Association of Teachers of RE
This RE unit plan from NATRE (National Association of Teachers of RE) explores how world religions and worldviews care for the Earth, and includes lesson ideas that connect climate change, environmental justice and ethical responses within religious contexts.
https://natre.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2025/08/10-Green-Religion-A-Unit-Plan-for-9-12s-What-can-be-done-about-climate-and-environment-1.pdf
Interfaith
This interfaith teaching unit provides RE classroom activities that help pupils compare how different faith traditions respond to the climate crisis and the moral imperatives of environmental care.
https://www.interfaith.org.uk/uploads/Unit_5_Making_a_Difference_in_the_World_%E2%80%93_Inter_Faith_Responses_to_the_Climate_Crisis_1.pdf
The climate change clues hidden in art history
Art historians are exploring their collections through a climate lens, revealing overlooked connections between our past and present, writes Diego Arguedas Ortiz.
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Climate in the History curriculum
A blog from the Royal Historic Society around links between History and climate change.
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Historical Association
A blog post from a History teacher reflecting upon teaching climate change.
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Teaching Climate History: There is no Planet B
An outline of resources related to Alan Singer’s book.
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Global Citizen – What can past societies teach us about climate change?
A blog exploring the lessons of studying the past in relation to climate change.
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Historical Climatology – Teaching the Climate Emergency in World History
An article written by Philip Gooding, a historian.
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Edutopia – Teaching Climate change in social studies
A good overview of how climate change can be taught across subjects.
PBS Learning Media – Climate Change through History
A video and related articles from an American company.
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Historical Association Climate change
History links past human activity to modern climate change understanding.https://www.history.org.uk/primary/resource/10800/recorded-webinar-helping-primary-students-underst
Air, land, and sea
Summary of how climate change has impacted life in the air, land and sea.
https://royalsociety.org/blog/2022/11/air-land-and-sea-climate-change-and-past-fellows-of-the-royal-society/
GeoCabalities – the social justice dimension of Geography
GeoCapabilities is a project applying a human capabilities lens to the discipline of Geography.
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Climate Change and Girls’ Education: school resource pack
This resource is designed for teachers and facilitators in education settings for young people aged 11 to 17. It can be used in mainstream schools and also in English-language settings.
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Why is our climate changing?
Climate change is the shift in the Earth’s weather conditions over many years. Our world has been getting hotter due to things humans are doing, like the way we make energy, farm and cut down trees. An introduction to climate change.
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WWF: Introduction to Climate Change
Teacher activity guide for those aged 7-11.
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NASA Global Climate Change – Resources for Educators
A wide range of resources that can be adapted for all ages.
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National Geographic Kids – What is Climate Change?
An excellent introduction for children of all ages.
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Met Office – The effects of climate change
An introduction to the impact of climate change.
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Geographical Association
An extensive range of resources for all key stages.
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Maths and Computer Science
24 Hour Summary, based on data provided by Environment Agency
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Incorporating Sustainability in Mathematics
This is short blog indicates how to incorporate sustainability in mathematics in the classroom and organising conferences. It provides several links to resources that are useful for the classroom.
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Sustainability and Mathematics
This is a website offers a collection of resources which could be adapted for secondary level that mainly focus on Statistics and Calculus. Some of the links on this website can also be useful for science lessons.
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Climate Change in the Polar Regions – working with Data
Stem Learning have created a range of resources to enable students to reflect on how mathematics might be used to help scientists make predictions about the possible impact of climate change in the Polar regions.
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Why do I have to learn this?
Published by the Association of Teachers of Mathematics, Karl Bushnell shares some examples of maths worksheets he has designed to cover sustainability topics and includes advice on how to make your own resources.
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World Wildlife Fund – Sustainability in Mathematics
A WWF school’s case study of sustainability projects, exploring how ICT was incorporated into maths lessons to research data which they could then analyse using spreadsheets to produce graphical representations and predict trends in data.
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Mathematics for Sustainability
This is a website created by the authors of Mathematics for Sustainability (2018), published by Springer. This book builds upon mathematical knowledge in the context of real-world applications and issues relevant to sustainability.
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GCSE and A-level questions – Maths for Planet Earth
The Environmental Change Institute and University of Oxford have created a bank of GCSE and A-level questions which were developed using existing exam questions adapted to the theme of climate change.
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University of Oxford – Making Maths relevant to the climate strikes
A news article of the university website describing their reasoning for making the resources above, changing the content of Maths questions at GCE and A-level.
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Why Maths is important in fighting climate change
In their Teachwire post, Fiona Goddard briefly discusses why mathematics is important in fighting climate change.
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Maths and climate change collection - padlet
A superb collection of resources containing multiple links to videos, news articles, and teaching resources for teaching Maths in the context of social justice issues such as climate change.
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Visualising the Climate Crisis
Advanced Mathematics Support Programme have created a lesson resource containing a presentation, teacher notes, and worksheet around the impact of Christmas jumpers on climate change.
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Climate Museum – environmental infographics and data
A wide range of excellent infographics
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The maths of climate change
Gresham College.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w4O4jK-lZrI
MIT OpenCourseWare
The Mathematics of Climate Modelling.
https://ocw.mit.edu/courses/15-023j-global-climate-change-economics-science-and-policy-spring-2008/8db180346a0e833069e0d7ca2934d9a4_lec3.pdf
UCL
How mathematics can contribute to the climate change debate.
https://www.ucl.ac.uk/global/case-studies/2021/sep/how-mathematics-can-contribute-climate-change-debate
MEI maths matters
Mathematics resources and games related to climate change.
https://mei.org.uk/resource/maths-and-climate-change/
BBC EcoMaths
Various resources.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes
Climate Models
How they work and how they are used to predict future climate.
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Kaleidoscope Educator Voices
Article on teaching climate science and resilience with computer simulations.
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Computer Science Degree Hub
How can Computer Science slow climate change?
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Hello World
Article on sustainability and computing
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Steamlabs
Develops offers materials for a lesson on green energy that uses AI and machine learning
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Hello World
Article - How can AI help us tackle climate change?
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Hello World
Article on Computing and sustainable development
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Hello World
Teachers’ views on climate change education
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MIT
Article on the computation of climate change,
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University of California TV
Video (30 mins) on Computer Science in relation to climate change
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The Royal Society
Article – making computer science education relevant, accessible and engaging
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| Programme of the European Union -Mean daily temperature interactive climate Atlas BBC-Climate change questions, Animal computer interaction, Sounds and meaning across world's languages. Penn program on regulation- Tackling Climate change with machine learning University of Reading- Computer science breakthrough aids understanding of extremes University of Oxford- Tackling extreme weather challenges with AI University of Cambridge-how computer science hinders climate science Earth.org- Using Computer simulation to tackle climate change Loughborough University-Computer model for studying climate change The Alan Turing Institute- Tackling climate change with data science and AI |
https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/b081l87w
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kc4WdEmKVN0 https://earth.org/data_visualization/using-computer-simulations-to-tackle-climate-change/ https://www.lboro.ac.uk/media-centre/press-releases/2025/january/ai-climate-change-disease-conversation-article/ |
English
The stories we tell about climate change: environmental children’s literature
This is the Padlet resource created by Anna Donnelly to support her session around climate change and literacy.
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The Lost Words – book, website CD and live shows
This book has had a transformative effect on all who have come in contact with it. It has taken root in thousands of schools across Britain, been widely acclaimed as an instant classic, won numerous prizes, and inspired many creative thinkers, young and old.
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The Lost Words for Schools – Padlet
This is a moderated online board showcasing children's work, teaching ideas, and resources inspired by The Lost Words
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10 things that scare me
In this podcast from WNYC Studios, a researcher talks about his love for nature and the ecosystems and what scares him about climate change.
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The birth of climate change denial
Created in 2017, this podcast from WNYC Studios features President Donald Trump who considered who climate change a "hoax".
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Caution: Fragile
This podcast from WNYC Studios can be used as the starting point for debates, creative writing and creative activities, focusing on nature and the planet’s overall fragility.
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Guardian – 10 books for younger children
Books to enable young children to engage with the climate crisis.
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Teen Vogue – the best 10 books on climate change
A range of books selected by climate activists.
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Best Poems for Climate Change
Selection of poets who have written about the environment and the changing natural world from Interesting Literature.
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Poetry and the Environment
A selection of poetry inspired by the environment.
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The Poetry Society – Poetry and nature
A selection of poems for all ages exploring the natural world.
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Poetry to inspire a love of nature and the outdoors
A selection of poems from Family Friend Poems
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If Not Us, Then Who?
Website and resources highlighting the role indigenous and local peoples play in protecting our planet. Excellent series of short films to prompt discussion and written work.
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Young People’s Trust for the Environment
A selection of resources for children, teenagers and teachers aimed at developing awareness of environmental problems, such as climate change,
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Why I live a zero waste life
A 13 minute long video on TEDxTeen
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The Life cycle of a T shirt – Angel Chang
A six-minute video on Youtube.
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PlayGreen
PlayGreen – where theatre and outdoor learning collide, with workshops to support English.
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Poets & Scientists collaborate on spoken word poetry.
Resource showcasing poetry about biodiversity and renewable energy.
Modern Foreign Languages
Leeds Development Education Centre
Resources to enable MFL teachers to address climate change.
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TEACHIT
A 'green' collection of lesson resources to sustain your MFL teaching on the topic of the environment.
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Climate Emergency – Feedback Loops
Films launched by Greta Thunberg ad the Dalai Lama in 27 languages which could serve as a languages resource.
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Goethe
This downloadable module provides free German language teaching materials on climate protection, enabling students to practise listening, reading and writing skills through sustainability-focused texts and communicative classroom tasks.
https://www.goethe.de/prj/dlp/en/teachingmaterials/climate_protection_and_language_acquisition
Physical Education
Learning Through Landscapes
Lesson about greenhouse gases through dodge ball, created by the leading organisation for outdoor learning.
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Earth Day
EARTHDAY.ORG’s mission is to diversify, educate and activate the environmental movement worldwide; first Earth Day was in 1970. There will be resources here that can be adapted for physical education
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Science
| Science Museum How do greenhouse gases affect climate change? A simulation to show you how! |
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We WILL fix climate change!
An animated video to demonstrate how (16 minutes). |
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| The Eden Project A wide range of excellent resources around a range of subjects including a 6 minute video explaining climate change |
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| Practical Action – website – free resources for teachers. STEM, science, design and technology resources fit the UK curriculum and engage children in real world issues including climate change, renewable energy, food security and disaster preparedness. |
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World Wildlife Fund
An excellent selection of Early Years resources
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STEM Learning Climate Change 11-19.
A selection of excellent resources from various publishers concerning climate change for 11- to 19-year-olds, created to support the Polar Explorer programme.
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Nursery World
Education for sustainability – hot topic
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Climate Change for GCSE Science
Available on Metlink, four example lessons and presentations produced by Daniel Rose to introduce how global warming works, aimed at GCSE students.
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Water Aid – Climate Change teaching resources
WaterAid has created a series of lesson resources for various topics surrounding the impacts and management of climate change, suitable for Key Stages 2-4.
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National Geographic resources.
A series of short educational articles from National Geographic accompanied by vocabulary lists, touching upon both science and aspects of Geography. There are more subjects available on the website as well as a range resources from KS2 to KS5.
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Climate Change and Biology – Teacher's Climate Guide.
The guide, aimed at teachers, was originally made for Finnish subject teachers, and Finland is often used as an example. However, teachers worldwide are free to adapt the material to fit their own needs across KS2, 3, 4 and 5.
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Environment Agency - Plastic pollution – website - resources for teachers.
School resources pack for teaching children about plastic pollution through an interactive workshop.
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| Learning Through Landscapes Learning through Landscapes have a good range of Early Years resources around science and outdoor learning |
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BBC – What is Climate Change? A really simple guide – website
A good introduction.
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Sir David Attenborough – Climate Change: the Facts
BBC Documentary (60 mins and 4 min version)
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British Science Week 2023.
Activity packs designed for all year groups.
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WWF – Science Activity Pack to compliment British Science Week.
Activities and at-home tips to help learn about climate and sustainability, with further emphasis on personal wellbeing, such as outdoor gyms.
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WWF – Presentation (PPT) - Introduction to Climate Change.
A classroom presentation to introduce the topic of climate change to students, highlighting why it matters, and what we can all do to help tackle climate change.
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WWF – Teacher Pack – Introduction to Climate Change (to compliment the above).
This teacher guide provides simple activity ideas based on the topic of climate change. You can use these activities in a dedicated climate change module or as part of related topics.
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SEED – Sustainability and Environmental Education
A collated list of online climate change resources
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Climate Hero Carbon Calculator
A 5 minute online tool to calculate your carbon footprint
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TED Talks (videos) and articles about climate change
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NASA Global Climate Change – Resources for Educators
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| How Climate change affects everything Star talk |
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| Wild life trusts -Inclusive society where nature matters | https://www.wildlifetrusts.org/about-us |
| Centre for clean air policy-Creating innovative, replicable climate solutions | https://www.ccap.org/ |
| National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration-Educational resources on climate change | https://www.noaa.gov/education/resource-collections/climate/climate-change-impacts |
| The Royal Society-Educational resources on climate change | https://royalsociety.org/news-resources/projects/climate-change-evidence-causes/basics-of-climate-change/ |
| Met Office-Educational resources on the Effects of climate change | https://weather.metoffice.gov.uk/climate-change/effects-of-climate-change |
| Programme of the European Union- provides authoritative climate data and concise insight on a global scale about 2025's climate conditions. |
https://climate.copernicus.eu/ |
| United States Environmental Protection Agency-Basics and causes of climate change | https://www.epa.gov/climatechange-science/basics-climate-change |
| WWT-Learning Zone-Curriculum Resource packs | https://learningzone.wwt.org.uk/explore-resources/general-teaching-resources/curriculum-resource-packs/?gad_source=1&gad_campaignid |
| Teaching Resources for Age 7-14 | https://www.oxfam.org.uk/education/classroom-resources/climate-challenge/ |
| British Council- Climate change resources for school teachers | https://www.britishcouncil.org/climate-connection/get-involved/resources-school-teachers |
| WaterAid- Climate Change Films | https://www.wateraid.org/uk/get-involved/teaching-resources/climate-change |
| Forestry England- Climate change education resources for teachers |
https://www.forestryengland.uk/pdf-download/climate-change-education-resources-teachers |
| Eden Project-Teaching Resources | https://www.edenproject.com/learn/schools/teaching-resources |
| Met link-Royal Meteorological Society | https://www.metlink.org/resource/climate-change-teaching-resources/ |
| National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration-Data in the Classroom | https://www.epa.gov/climate-change/climate-change-resources-educators-and-students |
| Office for Climate Education Unesco-Climate change resources | https://www.oce.global/en/resources/ |
| Stem learning-resources on climate change | https://www.stem.org.uk/resources/library/collection/493174/climate-change-primary-resources |
| BBC- Climate change: Great Barrier Reef has lost half of its coral Nature- Global warming emergency Animation- Climate change in a nutshell |
https://www.bbc.co.uk/newsround/54535213 https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-018-07586-5 https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLFs4vir_WsTyRF0gggqGopQvUZR-oK_c6&si=5N4lxWjsxqTkkxeE |
Cross-Curricular
Oxfam
A range of resources focussing upon the social injustice of climate change
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World Wildlife Fund
A big range of excellent resources for all ages
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ENCOUNTER EDU – providers of live lessons
An excellent range of resources, particularly for primary aged pupils.
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Google Arts and Culture
Natural History Expeditions
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Earth Warriors
Climate Action through Climate Education – extensive resources and training for teachers
https://earthwarriorsglobal.com/
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Education resources on Climate Change.
Country, Subnational and watershed Data For Development Practitioners and Policy Makers.https://climateknowledgeportal.worldbank.org/