Climate Curriculum

Answering The Climate Challenge With VR Education

• 25 Mar

Real Climate Negotiations Happen In The Classroom

A Model United Nations (MUN) is a useful tool for engaging students in debate. Student Pedro Pina Albuquerque discusses how Halcyon London International School has used the MUN format to debate climate issues.

• 11 Feb

‘Listening To Nature’ – The Rewards Of An Eco-Creative Curriculum

From creativity to wellbeing, young people stand to gain tremendously from interactive outdoor learning. Amanda Bayley and Jill Parsons share the results of the Hear Water project and some excellent starter activities for teachers.

• 16 Dec

Building Tomorrow: Practical Strategies For Climate Education

Schools and universities are at the front line of international climate action. Cormac Lawler, Charlotte Bonner and Rachel Dunk share strategies for school leaders to get up to speed with climate education.

• 5 Dec

What Is Climate Literacy And Why Do Pupils Need It?

What is climate literacy? Who needs it? When should people develop it and how? What role should climate education play in developing climate literacy, and what does high-quality climate education look like? In this article, Professor Sylvia Knight begins to explore some of these questions.

• 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