Global Citizenship
The Global Citizenship topic is where you can include work on other initiatives like Fairtrade Schools, and Rights Respecting Schools in your Eco-Schools journey. You might also like to tell us about any fundraising projects for charities, foodbank donations or charitable recycling. Lastly, individual awards like The John Muir Award, and The Duke of Edinburgh's Award are also welcome in this topic.
The Global Citizenship Topic has some natural overlap with Climate Action and Health & Wellbeing.
Interactive lessons and resources to support your work on the Global Citizenship Topic.
Interactive lessons and activities all about making choices that are kinder to the environment.
Resources
Use your voice to ask for change by writing a letter or email (template automatically downloads when you click the link).
Put yourself in the shoes of global decision makers to decide how you would share out an international climate action fund..
Explore how different countries contribute to and experience climate change.
In this activity pupils will look at what different groups of people want from a forest. They will use this information to examine conflicts of interest around forest use.
Perfect for decorating a noticeboard or classroom. Created using materials from the World's Largest Lesson.
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In this home learning activity we investigate single use plastic at home and look for options to reduce it.
Author and illustrator Chris Naylor-Ballesteros reads his wonderful book 'The Suitcase', inviting pupils to explore empathy with an activity to imagine what they would pack if they had to leave their homes.
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.
Introduction to the concept of sustainability using Boardmaker PCS Symbols
Activity to think about what roll you could play within the climate movement using your skills and interests.
A series of Climate Justice lessons from FEE and the Siemenpuu Foundation exploring climate change and climate justice from the perspective of the Global South..
Live Lesson for World Toilet Day covering environmental and human rights aspects of toilets with follow up resources to design your own toilet (including maths and art) and support Water Aid.
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 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.
Lesson for high schools discussing Biodiversity COP15 and what young people can do to help protect and restore biodiversity with resources to hold a debate on wolf reintroduction and write campaign letters.
Live Lesson featuring a visit to the Highland Wildlife Park, learning how words can help us look after nature and how Fairtrade supports nature with invitations to write your own animal riddle and become a rainforest guardian.
Lesson covering what disinformation is, why it matters and how to spot it, with follow up to write a report using reliable resources.
Find out more about Fair Trade and how story telling can help us to better understand how Fair Trade benefits the people who grow, make and produce the things we buy, with a follow up resource to create an Issue Tree.
Lesson about how the Edinburgh Dog and Cat home is helping both people and pets with an Eco-Schools Action Plan to take learning further.
Lesson investigating what it means to be a good citizen and exploring stories on the themes of empathy, kindness and citizenship with an activity to create an influence map.
Live Lesson covering what it means to be a global citizen through young people's stories with a further resource to run an intergenerational writing project.
A series of lessons and resources covering fast fashion, including circular economy, fairtrade, social impacts and what sustainable fashion could look like with resources linked to each lesson and how to repair your own clothes and write a report on the impacts of fast fashion.
A lesson about the problem with fast fashion and how we can best deal with textile waste with follow up resources to organise a swap event and complete an upcycling project.
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