Climate Action
Climate Action
Climate Action is our new core topic and must be one of the three Topics covered in order to achieve a Green Flag Award. This topic covers learning about climate change and its effects, as well as actions that help reduce your carbon footprint.
The Climate Action Topic has natural overlap with all other topics.
Introduction to the Climate Action Topic
This video explains the concept of climate change and it's effects. It then explains why Climate Action is our mandatory Topic, and discuss ideas and examples for how to cover this Topic as part of your Eco-Schools journey.
A full playlist of Eco-Schools guidance videos can be found on our YouTube channel.
Navigating the science behind climate change and the actions which individuals can take to reduce their carbon footprint can be daunting for young people and adults alike. Climate Ready Classrooms is a free accredited course on climate change and carbon literacy designed for young people aged 14–17 years.
This SCQF level 4 course is aimed at secondary school pupils looking to develop their knowledge of climate change and understand what positive decisions they can take to address the causes of climate change.
The course includes a notional 20 hours of learning, activities, and assessment. Successful candidates will achieve 2 credits at SCQF level 4.
Interactive lessons to help your class understand what climate change is, its impacts, how we are contributing to this situation and how we can contribute to its solution. Supported with classroom resources and activities.
Resources
An exercise on the carbon Footprint of everyday items adapted from "How Bad Are Bananas?" by Mike Berners-Lee
An introductory activity to gauge your group's feelings and experiences of climate action.
Introduction to the concept of climate change using Boardmaker PCS Symbols
Think about how to have a productive conversation about climate change with an adult.
Find out about community resilience as a context for learning within Curriculum for Excellence
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A resource to support educators' practice in learning and teaching climate change.
Explore how different countries contribute to and experience climate change.
If we could all reduce our energy usage we could significantly reduce our carbon emissions.
Investigate the insulating effect of greenhouse gases over time.
Investigate how greenhouse gases are made and their effect on temperature.
Demonstrate the consequences of sea and land ice melt as a result of global warming.
A list of learning activities and curricular links on practicing responsible production and consumption.
This activity, including a discussion and an experiment, will help pupils learn about how trees help to prevent flooding and pollution and influence our weather and climate.
Calculate the carbon footprint of the food we eat and see if you can design a low carbon lunch.
How big is your footprint? Challenge yourself to reduce your footprint by changing the way you travel.
A discussion of the impacts of climate change being seen in Scotland
Author and illustrator Mariajo Ilustrajo reads her book Flooded, a beautiful story that introduces climate change and the importance of working together to build strong communities, with a follow up resource to create your own class newspaper.
Author and Illustrator Mini Grey reads her book "The Last Wolf", with resources to make a treehouse inspired by the story and grow trees from seed.
Author Emily Gravett reads her book ‘Too Much Stuff’. A great lesson on the importance of changing our relationship with things and the impact that our love for stuff can have on the planet, with a Boardmaker resource explaining the concept of sustainability.
Lesson plans on climate justice and solar lighting from SolarAid and Keep Scotland Beautiful.
Introduction to the concept of sustainability using Boardmaker PCS Symbols
Find out how much traffic passes your school. Useful when campaigning for air quality improvements or road safety.
Do you want to make your school more climate-friendly? If so, this guide is for you!
This video will explain the concept of climate change and it's effects. It will then explain why Climate Action is our mandatory Topic, and discuss ideas and examples for how to cover this Topic as part of your Eco-Schools journey.
This webinar from Shout Out UK and FEE gives you the tools to identify and tackle false news and to respond to climate denialism, as discussions about global warming continue to heat up.
Learn the importance of trees as carbon sinks by estimating the carbon content of a tree and discussing the role of forests in climate change. Created by LEAF Ireland.
Effects of climate change on health from the World Health Organisation
See if you can reduce the carbon footprint of your Eco-Committee or Youth Club.
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Climate change and water lesson from Deutsche Welle in partnership with FEE.
In this Sunny Schools unit, children learn about eco-friendly houses and different materials.
Learn how trees help prevent flooding and pollution as part of the water cycle.
Join storyteller Allison Galbraith for an Inuit creation myth about animals rescuing a stolen sun, with follow up resources on understanding climate change, wind and solar power experiments and sharing thoughts on climate change.
A lesson about the history of human induced climate change with follow up resources on climate change myth busting, wind and solar power experiments and sharing thoughts on climate change. A pre-recorded shorter lesson for high schools is also available.
Bidh Seachdain Gnìomh na Gnàth-shìde am-bliadhna a’ leantainn sgeulachd atharrachadh na gnàth-shìde bhon àm a dh’fhalbh chun an latha an-diugh
Take a tour of the Highland Wildlife Park to see how animals build their homes, follow up by inviting children to draw a home they would like to live in.
A series of lessons and resources helping pupils to design their own sustainable home and garden, including sustainability concepts, engineering, design and climate ready gardens.
Live Lesson about the history of Gaelic in Scotland and how protecting languages links to climate justice with an Eco-Schools Action Plan based on the lesson.
A series of lessons and resources to introduce the concept of Net Zero, help pupils imagine what it could look like and how we will get there, including using your voice, nature's engineers, and the journey so far to Net Zero.
Watch the video from artist Paul Bartlett and make a collage as a gentle form of activism.
A series of lessons and resources to help pupils understand the basics of climate change, how we are impacting the planet and how we can contribute to its solution, including an experiment, mystery activity and letter writing.
Lesson for high schools exploring the concepts of climate justice and human footprints and how we can challenge injustices with a letter writing resource.
A series of lessons and resources including carbon footprints, nature, food, sea levels and examples of action, including experiments and thought provoking resources.
Lesson for high schools based around COP26 covering climate change concepts and how to take action.
Lesson covering what disinformation is, why it matters and how to spot it, with follow up to write a report using reliable resources.
Lesson from Sustrans on reducing greenhouse gas emissions through transport choices with resources to conduct a travel survey, conduct an active travel barriers survey and create a public transport map.
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