New handbook for schools and children to act on climate change - The Wildlife Trusts
The Wildlife Trusts unveil new educational guides for children to learn about how nature can help tackle the climate crisis.
Today, a new educational pack, Nature’s Climate Heroes, is launched to help primary school children understand the connections between the natural world, a changing climate, and people.
Solutions to address climate change and wildlife loss should be fundamental to children’s education in the 21st century, say The Wildlife Trusts.
The new handbook is designed to help teachers of children aged 7–11 and has been funded by players of People’s Postcode Lottery.
The project aims to address how climate change is taught in primary education by:
- Changing the focus of climate change from a scary and overwhelming subject to something that can be tackled through collective action.
- Providing teachers with a structured and comprehensive guide to deliver lessons about how human activities are connected to the changing climate, and why the restoration of nature is fundamental to our future.
- Empowering children to take small but collectively significant actions in their communities.
Fiona Groves, Education and Learning Manager at The Wildlife Trusts, says: “The interlinked climate and ecological crises present the biggest challenges ever faced by humanity. This can be extremely daunting, especially for children with their whole lives ahead of them. In this crucial decade for determining the future climate, we want children and young people to understand how nature can help us while empowering them to take action in their communities. It’s so important teachers have access to engaging resources that give them confidence to teach these issues and that children, as well as adults, feel able to make a difference.”
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Posted On: 02/09/2021