I want to go further and add climate change to my lessons. How can I do that?
There are many brilliant resources available that can help you add teaching about climate change to your curriculum. A great place to start is the which has resources mapped to key stages and subjects. There are also fantastic resources available from the and the among many others.
If you want to go even further, your school can apply for funding to develop climate related research in partnership with professional from academia or industry through the Royal Society’s programme.
I’m worried about adding to the anxiety of the young people in my school?
Climate and eco-anxiety are , and studies on how to actively address this challenge are still at early stages. Many experts suggested that having access to about climate change and having open conversations between young people and adults are critical to addressing anxiety. Discussing ways to tackle climate change is also a key step.
Unfortunately, most young people still leave school with many misconceptions about climate change as revealed by a recent . Getting involved in Show Your Stripes in School can be a starting point for developing an action plan to bring deeper and wider climate education into your school.
How do I talk to parents about what we are doing?
Sometimes, teachers are nervous about addressing climate change because they think it is a controversial topic. This is not the case. There is an that humans are causing recent global warming. The most recent UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC)’s describes the human influence on climate as “unequivocal".