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Introduction
A week of activities for 9 to 11 year olds
Are you looking for stimulating and worthwhile activities to carry out
with your class after half term? This year, our week of activities focuses
on the theme of climate change.
Climate Chaos provides a wealth of ready-to-use
and flexible material based on the foundation subjects, and is ideal for
use after the SATs.
“Climate Change is the greatest
environmental challenge facing the world today. Every individual,
every organisation, every government has a part to play. I believe
that schools have a special role to play in helping pupils understand
the causes and impact of our changing environment and showing the
ways in which they can make a real difference.”
David Miliband, Secretary of State for Environment,
NCSL website, 20.04.07
Climate Chaos begins with an overview of climate change, before exploring in more
depth its impact on everyone, but particularly poorer people in
the developing world. Pupils are then encouraged to think about
how all of us contribute to climate change through our everyday
actions, and how we could all help by using fossil fuels less wastefully.
Finally, they will consider how to share what they have learnt with
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Climate Chaos offers
teachers the choice of either:
Five mornings (2.5 hours x 5)
OR
Five whole days (2.5 + 2 hours x 5)
The extension work for the afternoons follows on from the
morning, but is not essential for the next morning’s work. Usually
a range of different and more open-ended tasks are offered for the afternoons
so that pupils and teachers can choose which activities, if any, to do
and how long to spend on them, according to interest and ability.
View the scheme of work
for quick reference.
This resource pulls together a wealth of ready-to-use
and flexible material divided into three sections:
Section 1: What is climate change?
Through a series of short video clips and animations, this section
builds up a broad overview of what ‘climate change’ is all
about – the causes of it, the problems it causes, how the greenhouse
effect works, and how everyday actions contribute to it. Pupils are encouraged
to think about how climate change connects the local with the global.
Section 2: The effects of climate change
This section focuses on the impacts of climate change on people.
Using case studies and interviews, pupils can see that climate change
is already affecting people everywhere. However, maps, graphs and a climate
change calendar graphically show that the people who are suffering the
worst from the effects of climate change are not those who are producing
most of the greenhouse gases.
Section 3: What we can do
Through activities about their everyday lives (what goes into
a packet of cereal, and a school energy survey) pupils will explore how
dependent we all are on fossil fuels and consider ways in which we can
reduce the amount we use. They will begin an action plan for the school
and develop ways to share what they have learnt with others.
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To view the lesson plans and fact sheets
in this resource you will need Adobe Acrobat Reader. You can download
Adobe Acrobat online here. |
Last year's Summer Week resource – Bring on the World – proved very popular with teachers.
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