Climate Curriculum

What Is Climate Literacy And Why Do Pupils Need It?

• 17 Jun

The Book School Inspectors Told Teachers To Burn!

Jackie Beere's book, The Perfect (Ofsted) Lesson, was a huge success but Ofsted inspectors hated it and advised teachers to burn it. Had they got past the first page, they might have thought again.

• 22 May

Literature’s Role In Surviving Climate Change

• 24 Feb

Infiltrating the Arts – The Climate Curriculum!

• 13 Feb

The Climate Classroom – Infiltrating The MATHS Curriculum

• 10 Nov

Doubts Over Whether New GCSE Exam In Natural History Will Impact Climate Change Teaching

• 10 Jun

Climate Change And Sustainability In Practice

• 6 Jun

Green At Fifteen – What Schools Can Do To Support The Climate

PISA - the international education comparisons system has looked for the first time at what children know about the climate. Andreas Schleicher, director of the OECD Directorate For Education and Skills, explains what they found.

• 26 May

Scotland Puts Craft Back Into The Curriculum

Craft industries are an important part of most economies but are particularly strong in Scotland. Yet their presence in schools is a matter of happenstance. A research project is exploring a more formal role.

• 25 Oct

Weather And Climate: A Teachers’ Guide

• 4 Jul

Teaching The Climate Emergency and Ecological Breakdown

In this issue the activities reflect not only the climate emergency but the equally important issue of ecological breakdown.

• 12 Nov

Climate Change: Pupil Voice, Digital Democracy And Global Citizenship

Digital Democracy can be a great way of ensuring the voices of all children and young people in a school are heard. Sue Lyle and Peter Anderson report on how the digital platform VocalEyes can be used to support student agency and what it means for pupils' development as active citizens.

• 10 Nov

Land Use: Growing Energy and Fuel

• 9 Nov

Understanding The Council of All Beings In Climate Teaching

• 9 Nov

A Mystery for Geography or Science

Should we change our animal rearing and/or meat-eating habits? Thus mystery examines modern farming practices.

• 30 Oct

Aesthetic and Ecological Understanding in Lower Key Stage 2: A Woodland Walk

This activity utilizes natural outdoor environments to help children enjoy and appreciate the richness of the nature through their senses.

• 8 Oct

Teach The Future: The View Of A 15 Year Old

• 11 Sep

Declaring a Climate Crisis at Woodbridge High School, Redbridge

Across the UK awareness around climate change is growing and following recent school strikes and demonstrations some of our schools have declared a climate emergency and began to examine what they can do about the scale of crisis we face. In this piece we learn how one London secondary school has responded.

• 23 Jul