Climate change is a complex moral, scientific, social and technological issue that is one of the defining issues of the 21st century. It is essential that children and young people are given the opportunity to learn about this important issue and develop informed opinions and views as global citizens. In addition to being explicitly mentioned in many experiences and outcomes, climate change offers a stimulating, challenging and relevant context for learning across the curriculum.

How to use this resource

This resource has been designed to help teachers improve their practice in learning and teaching relating to climate change. It is vital that our young people are equipped with the skills to think critically and question how the media reports climate change. As global citizens, they need to be able to evaluate environmental, scientific and technological information in order to develop informed opinions about this issue.

Improvement questions

• How can we make climate change relevant, meaningful and of interest to learners?
• What steps will we need to take to deepen our own knowledge of climate change?
• How can we use climate change to encourage learners to explore and establish values such as wisdom, justice, compassion and integrity?
• How can we use climate change as a context to support a whole school approach to learning for sustainability?

Video(s)

Weather and climate change: Global climate
Weather and climate change: Understanding weather
Weather and climate change: Science centres
Weather and climate change: Primary Schools
Weather and climate change: Greenland360
Whole school approach to Global Citizenship/climate change
Weather and climate change: All videos

Download(s)

PDF file: Weather and climate change: Climate (474 KB)
PDF file: Weather and climate change: Climate change (685 KB)
PDF file: Weather and climate change: Energy (710 KB)
PDF file: Weather and climate change: Make a difference (616 KB)
PDF file: Weather and climate change: Weather (520 KB)