Children + Young People Zone

Children Young People

Session presenter

Masud Alom

Reflections of a young climate activist

Masud Alom went to school and college in Birmingham and is now studying for a degree in Politics and International Relations at Cardiff University. He was interviewed by Jake Lever about his activism and why teachers should be addressing climate justice as an issue. Masud is involved as a Student Climate Activist with the UK Student Climate Network - see https://ukscn.org/Link opens in a new window.

Session recordingLink opens in a new window

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For the first Green Space Day, a series of resources were collected together around this theme which you are welcome to explore and use in your teaching. Please note that they were accurate and live in April 2022, but some may have been replaced or removed, as we have no control over external resources. The resources are labelled with the following colours and shapes to denote their suitability for particular age phases:

Early Years: Primary: Secondary:

Resource title, description and link	Suitable for
Children in Year 5 and 6 from All Saints Primary School in Emscote, Warwick, discuss climate change with their teacher Liz Garrett on 10.3.22 (audio recording 19 minutes)
Eco-anxiety - Jo McAndrews and Caroline Hickman - video (60mins) A talk by members of the Climate Psychology Alliance at the Primary Climate Science Symposium (November 21) on why climate psychology is essential in climate education. https://www.climatepsychologyalliance.orgLink opens in a new window
Talking with children about climate change - podcast (34 mins) How far is it appropriate to engage children and young people in talking about the frightening situation we are in with regards to the climate and the biodiversity crisis? Psychotherapist Caroline Hickman has worked with children for many years and, in conversation with Verity Sharp, shares her experience about ways we can think about addressing this all-important question. https://www.climatepsychologyalliance.org/podcasts/370-3-talking-with-children-about-climate-changeLink opens in a new window Podcast transcriptLink opens in a new window
Teach the Teacher - young people talk about climate change education as part of COP26 - video
Teach the Future - website - young people campaign for climate education Teach the Future is an inclusive, well organised and persistent campaign by secondary and tertiary education students to greatly improve education on the climate emergency and ecological crisis in the UK. https://www.teachthefuture.uk/visionLink opens in a new window
Fridays for Future - a youth-led global climate strike movement, initiated in 2018 by Greta Thunberg - website https://fridaysforfuture.org/Link opens in a new window
Unicef- what does climate change mean to children around the world? - video (3 minutes) Video transcriptLink opens in a new window - please be aware that you will need to use both the subtitles within the video (for the non-English audio) and this transcript for the English audio.
Alexandria Villaseñor, 14 years old climate advocate, makes an opening speech at a UNICEF meeting in 2019 - video (5 minutes)
UNICEF (UK) - 9 out of 10 Children are worried about climate change https://www.unicef.org.uk/press-releases/9-in-10-children-are-worried-about-climate-change-finds-new-report-from-votesforschools-and-uk-committee-for-unicef-unicef-uk-2/Link opens in a new window
UNICEF - fact sheet article on children and climate change https://reliefweb.int/report/world/fact-sheet-cop26-children-and-climate-changeLink opens in a new window
Scientific American - children change their parents’ minds about climate change https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/children-change-their-parents-minds-about-climate-change/Link opens in a new window
TEDX Stockholm - Greta Thunberg gives an 11 minute Ted Talk in 2018 https://www.ted.com/talks/greta_thunberg_school_strike_for_climate_save_the_world_by_changing_the_rulesLink opens in a new window
UK Student Climate Network https://ukscn.org/Link opens in a new window

Resource title, description and link

Suitable for

Children in Year 5 and 6 from All Saints Primary School in Emscote, Warwick, discuss climate change with their teacher Liz Garrett on 10.3.22 (audio recording 19 minutes)

Eco-anxiety - Jo McAndrews and Caroline Hickman - video (60mins)

A talk by members of the Climate Psychology Alliance at the Primary Climate Science Symposium (November 21) on why climate psychology is essential in climate education.

https://www.climatepsychologyalliance.orgLink opens in a new window

Talking with children about climate change - podcast (34 mins)

How far is it appropriate to engage children and young people in talking about the frightening situation we are in with regards to the climate and the biodiversity crisis? Psychotherapist Caroline Hickman has worked with children for many years and, in conversation with Verity Sharp, shares her experience about ways we can think about addressing this all-important question.

Teach the Teacher - young people talk about climate change education as part of COP26 - video

Teach the Future - website - young people campaign for climate education

Teach the Future is an inclusive, well organised and persistent campaign by secondary and tertiary education students to greatly improve education on the climate emergency and ecological crisis in the UK.

https://www.teachthefuture.uk/visionLink opens in a new window

Fridays for Future - a youth-led global climate strike movement, initiated in 2018 by Greta Thunberg - website

https://fridaysforfuture.org/Link opens in a new window

Unicef- what does climate change mean to children around the world? - video (3 minutes)

Video transcriptLink opens in a new window - please be aware that you will need to use both the subtitles within the video (for the non-English audio) and this transcript for the English audio.

Alexandria Villaseñor, 14 years old climate advocate, makes an opening speech at a UNICEF meeting in 2019 - video (5 minutes)

UNICEF (UK) - 9 out of 10 Children are worried about climate change

https://www.unicef.org.uk/press-releases/9-in-10-children-are-worried-about-climate-change-finds-new-report-from-votesforschools-and-uk-committee-for-unicef-unicef-uk-2/Link opens in a new window

UNICEF - fact sheet article on children and climate change

https://reliefweb.int/report/world/fact-sheet-cop26-children-and-climate-changeLink opens in a new window

Scientific American - children change their parents’ minds about climate change

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/children-change-their-parents-minds-about-climate-change/Link opens in a new window

TEDX Stockholm - Greta Thunberg gives an 11 minute Ted Talk in 2018

https://www.ted.com/talks/greta_thunberg_school_strike_for_climate_save_the_world_by_changing_the_rulesLink opens in a new window

UK Student Climate Network

https://ukscn.org/Link opens in a new window