Subject resources
Arts & Technology
William Morris Society Young Volunteer Project Exhibition
Over several sessions between May and July of 2021, a group of seven young volunteers came together to work on a project inspired by William Morris’s work as an early environmentalist
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Sitting on Recycling – V&A
Watch how chairs in the V&A collections have been made from recycled materials. A project in collaboration with the Victoria & Albert Museum for their project V&A innovate.
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Last Chance to Paint
Founded by artist John Dyer, ‘Last Chance to Paint’ is a non-political not for profit project. The project champions the equality of tribal culture, biodiversity, wildlife and ethnobotany through creativity.
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Climate Change and the Visual Arts
The guide, aimed at teachers, was originally made for Finnish subject teachers, and Finland is often used as an example.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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Outside – US Magazine
Article on 10 artists on what climate change looks like.
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Murals and art as protest during COP26 in Glasgow
A gallery of some of the art that appeared during COP26, designed to highlight the urgent need for change.
Picture – a solar powered installation in Glasgow
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Creative Carbon Scotland – connecting arts and sustainability – website
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Coat of Hopes – website – 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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Teaching Climate – website to support US teachers
A range of resources across all subjects to support teachers. This page is Art.
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Teachers Climate Guide – Music
A Finnish website that supports teachers addressing the climate crisis through subject teaching.
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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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Love Songs for the Planet
A classic selection of love songs with lyrics rewritten for the climate emergency
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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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Teaching Climate – website to support US teachers
A range of resources across all subjects to support teachers. This page is Music.
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Ergon Theatre - Ergon Theatre
Creates performance-based work about futures and the climate crisis
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Riding Lights Theatre Company
Baked Alaska – a series of short films and related resources exploring climate change.
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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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Teaching Climate – website to support US teachers
A range of resources across all subjects to support teachers. This page is Drama.
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Climate Change and Technical Work
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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Climate Change and Textiles
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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Climate Change and Home Economics
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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A New Direction - Nature inspired design
A range of resources to link nature with DT
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English
Humanities
Climate Change and Religious and Moral Education – Teacher's Climate Guide
The guide, aimed at teachers, was originally made for Finnish subject teachers, and Finland is often used as an example. This page focusses upon religious and moral education.
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Climate Change and Ethics – Teacher's Climate Guide
The guide, aimed at teachers, was originally made for Finnish subject teachers, and Finland is often used as an example. This page focusses upon ethics.
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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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Religious Education Council
How to organise a Climate Week.
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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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Climate Change and History – 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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Teaching Climate – website to support US teachers
A range of resources across all subjects to support teachers. This page is History.
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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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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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Climate Change and Geography – 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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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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Modern Foreign Languages
Maths and Computer Science
Climate Change and Mathematics
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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Teaching Climate – website to support US teachers
A range of resources across all subjects to support teachers. This page is Mathematics.
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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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Maths related to Climate Change – Resources
RMetS have collaborated with the Royal Meteorological Society to develop a range of excellent resources to engage young people with climate issues and show the relevance of maths to climate change and meteorology.
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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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The Maths of Climate Change
A video from Gresham College and presented by Professor Chris Budd, discusses how climate models work, their assumptions, and how reliable the predications of climate change are (video length: 59 minutes).
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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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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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Computing at School
Article - Changing the Climate: Bringing Environmental Issues to Life
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