Acting on Climate - Secondary School Teacher Resources
Acting on Climate Resources
Acting on Climate is a collective of academic researchers, artists and practitioners that explore the climate crisis with young people and teachers in the UK and beyond. The team uses creative approaches including theatre, performance, dance, film and digital media. Visit the immersive website to explore the project further, including creative videos, exploring the climate crisis, made by young people and a short documentary sharing who the team is, what the team has done, why they've done it this way.
We share our creative work with you in the hope that will inspire your own approach to this topic. You can explore in any order you like, as many times as you like.
Creative Outputs and Teaching Resources
Approaching topics surrounding the climate emergency can sometimes feel overwhelming. If not approached with care, sharing gloomy statistics about climate and local and global consequences, can fuel eco-anxiety amongst young people.
We found that an arts-led approach incorporating games, playful, embodied experimentation and shared debate and discussion enabled us to explore the messy complexities of the issues.
Critically, we dedicated time within our process to listen to pupils' own experiences and nascent understandings of the climate emergency.
We have divided our resources into three themes and aligned our topics to UNESCO's Sustainable Development Goals:
• LAND STORIES: Connecting with Land
• LAST PARTY: Navigating Globalisation
• THE GLOBE: Questioning Power and Agency
The full resource pack contains 18 activities and explains the resources needed, how to set up and play a variety of games and initiate discussions that support different aspects of learning and exploration guided by three pedagogic principles:
Principle One: Be Ready to Listen and Adapt...
Principle Two: Resist Starting with Facts and Figures...
Principle Three: Explore and Respond Imaginatively and Creatively to already Existing Green Spaces...
The principles, talking points and insights are all discussed in detail within the Resource Pack.