Lesson Plan

Explore how to accelerate action to tackle the climate crisis through collaboration

COP26-04_02

Intent

Lesson Outcomes

  • Explore how we can accelerate action to tackle the climate crisis through collaboration between governments, businesses and civil society
  • Understand how we can accelerate action to tackle the climate crisis through collaboration between governments, businesses and civil society
  • Explain how we can accelerate action to tackle the climate crisis through collaboration between governments, businesses, and civil society

Sustainability and Climate Change (Provisional Framework)

Building on a foundation of fundamental numeracy, literacy and broad academic knowledge, all children learn about:

  • nature
  • the causes and impacts of climate change
  • the importance of sustainability

Working Scientifically

  • Reporting and presenting findings from enquiries - including conclusions, causal relationships and explanations of and degree of trust in results - in oral and written forms such as displays and other presentations

Resources

Resources: Class presentation, pens and pencils. 

Handout: The activity sheet contains a planning grid for the children to fill out to plan their video script. It can follow any of the following formats: video diary, news report, climate show or video example for other schools. The video script needs to be reflective and should include what has gone well and what has not gone well.

Rocket words

  • offsetting project
  • Considerate Constructors Scheme (CCS)
  • insetting
  • carbon offsets
  • offsetting

Implementation

Starter

Ask the children the following questions: What actions can you take as a school to accelerate action to tackle the climate change crisis? What are carbon offsets?

Main Teaching

The teaching of this lesson explores the most significant ways big companies and organisations tackle emissions that they have caused. The children will have the opportunity to reflect on just how many aspects of these organisations have an impact and draw rational solutions to prevent it continuing to happen.

Career Film: This is Emin Veron. Emin works as a Fuel Performance Scientist for National Nuclear Laboratory.

Expert Film: Cycle2Work from Halfords | Halfords UK

Mission Assignment

Ask the children to create a campaign that represents their school’s eco-commitments. Then, ask them to create a video script which captures their school’s eco-journey so far. What has worked well and what has not worked well?

Challenge task: From the list below, ask the children to choose a problem that their campaign will face:

  • Classmates taking short cuts, preventing things working smoothly.
  • Lack of funding available to finance eco-materials.
  • Lack of appropriate training.
  • Team not motivated.

Using this problem, devise an action plan to combat it. 

Impact & Assessment Opportunities

Plenary

Ask the children to discuss how they felt when writing their video scripts. Were they pleased with how far their school has come or do they think they have further to go?