Climate Action Week 2021

With Scotland hosting COP26 and the increasing need to take action on Climate Change, we are pleased to offer interactive teaching and training sessions for Climate Action Week. Please use these recorded lessons in your classroom along with the accompanying resources.

We are grateful to our special guests from the Royal Zoological Society of Scotland (RZSS) for helping to make this lesson possible.

Upper Primary

A series of five interactive lessons aimed at helping your class understand what climate change is, its impacts, how we are contributing to this situation and how we can contribute to its solution. These lessons are supported with resources and activities that classes can carry out after the each lesson. By the end of the lessons, your class will come up with an Action Plan to work towards. Celebrate afterwards with a One Planet Picnic.

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Lesson 1: Carbon Footprints

What is climate change?
What are greenhouse gases?
Game: Which has a higher carbon footprint?
Experiment: Greenhouse gases and temperature
Effects of rising temperatures
How we are affecting the environment
What we can do

Lesson 2: Climate Change & Nature

How climate change affects nature
Examples of habitat loss
Visit to Penguins, Polar Bears, & Koalas
Why forests are so important
Examples of good conservation initiatives
Visit to Scottish Wildcats
What we can do

Lesson 3: Food & Climate Change

Food sources of greenhouse gases
Game: Which of these foods is lower carbon?
What’s in a snack?
Experiment: emissions from food waste
Food supply chain video and questions
What we can do -3 tasty tips

Lesson 4: Oceans, Water & Me

The link between climate & oceans
Water all around us
My water footprint
Experiment: impact of climate change on sea levels
How climate change is impacting our oceans
Litter and pollution from source to sea
What we can do to protect our blue spaces

Lesson 5: Examples of Climate Action

Orkney: the Islands with too much power
Beldorney Estate
Community of Arran Seabed Trust
Lynbreck Croft
Young people taking action
Ideas for your school

High Schools

This workshop is for whole classes or Eco-Committees in High Schools who would like to further their understanding of Climate Change, its effects, the relevance of COP26 and the different ways we all can take action. The workshop will also help Eco-Committees and groups to have a better understanding on how to plan an effective set of goals and actions, and they will finish the workshop with an Action Plan to work towards Climate Action.