The climate emergency is not only a question for politicians, protesters and journalists. Everybody, including children and young people, deserves the opportunity to study the issues that affect us all, and consider their role as active citizens. 

 

Building on images from around the world, we have created a suite of classroom activities for teachers and learners to ask a global citizenship question: should we make polluters pay?

 

In exploring this question, students will encounter a wealth of cross-curricular learning experiences and outcomes with learning for sustainability at the heart. Teachers can curate a lesson by choosing from 24 activities covering numeracy, literacy, speaking and listening, creative expression, science, geography, critical thinking, all mapped onto the curricula of England, Scotland and Wales.

 

Learners will use intellectual rigour, empathy and moral reasoning to discuss what we should do about loss and damage. We’ve also provided advice on climate anxiety and ways for young people to share their views beyond the classroom as active citizens.