Oxfam's Cool Planet for teachers - Your World, My World

Aims:
To help children to consider a simple environmental issue.
To encourage children to think about their own wishes for the future.

Talk with the children about why trees are important (they provide shade, wood for building and fuel, different fruits, homes for animals etc). Now explain to the children that they are going to hear a story about how one type of tree helped Cidinha's village. Read the story 'Trees of the Future' and show the photo of Cidinha cracking nuts.

Talk about how the babassu palm has helped people in Ludovico to have a better future. Talk about how Cidinha and the people in Ludovico depend on their environment. How do children in the class interact with their environment? What environmental issues do they care strongly about? Now give each child a leaf and ask them to write or draw something that they hope for for their environment in the future. Attach these wishes to the plant or 'tree' so that everyone can see.

Curriculum links:

England

Scotland

Wales

Citizenship/PSHE:
- What improves and harms their local, natural and built environments and about some of the ways people look after them.

English:
- Speaking and listening.
- Group discussion and interaction.

Geography:
- Geographical enquiry.
- Knowledge and understanding of environmental change and sustainable development.

Environmental Studies, Social subjects:
- Human-physical interactions - discuss ways in which they can care for resources and their environment.

PSD:
- Interpersonal relationships - begin to identify those values which are important to the home, school and community.

English:
- Listening in order to respond to texts.

PSE:
- What improves and harms their local, natural and built environments and about some of the ways people look after them.

English:
- Speaking and listening.
- Group discussion and interaction.

Geography:
- Geographical enquiry.
- Knowledge and understanding of environmental change and sustainable development.

From the Your World, My World online resource