KS2 ESR

Use this three-lesson Year 3/4 ESR scheme of work to explore each word in the phrase: reduce, reuse, recycle.   #TheCompleteSeries3lessons Teach yo...

This three-lesson ESR scheme of work continues the theme of ethical trading by teaching children about fair trade and its importance to farmers and...

Challenge your children to define what happiness is and identify the things in their lives that make them happy with this ‘What is Happiness?’ sche...

What is climate change, and how is human activity causing it? These lessons begin to delve into this complex topic, including straightforward infor...

Empower children to use their voices in the fight against climate change in this ‘Know Better, Do Better’ ESR scheme of work for Year 3/4. Children...

Drawing inspiration from The Lorax by Dr. Seuss, these ecosystems lessons explore the causes and effects of deforestation, starting by thinking abo...

Teach and learn about the importance of saving the finite resource of water in this three-lesson scheme of work for Year 3 and 4. Discover the virt...

What are some of the ethical and environmental problems associated with the bottled water industry? What are the alternatives to using bottled wate...

This three-lesson ESR scheme of work continues children’s learning about ethical trade by considering the human and environmental impacts of the fa...

This three-lesson ESR scheme of work helps your class identify different ways the ocean and other ecosystems provide services for us.   #TheComplet...

Challenge your class to examine the concept of wealth, and how money and possessions should not be the only indicators of a successful, fulfilled l...

This ESR scheme of work for Year 3 and Year 4 begins by exploring what biodiversity is and why it is important, through the example of the coral re...

Explore the balance that biodiversity gives an ecosystem and how higher and lower levels of biodiversity can affect the plants and animals that liv...

Download a complete ESR (Education for Social Responsibility) curriculum for KS1 and KS2. Following seven key strands to help children understand ...

Teach your class about the environmental and societal benefits that a circular economy can have for humans in this three-lesson scheme.   #TheCompl...

The first lesson in this series challenges your class to think about the things that make them happy and consider some vocabulary to describe happi...

In this first lesson, children learn what biodiversity is, and how important it is not only for plants and animals, but for humans too. They explor...

Children will start this ESR lesson by making some shopping decisions of their own before going on to explore why fair trade is becoming more of an...

In this lesson, children focus on rainforests, and begin to learn about this ecosystem by exploring some simple food chains that can be found there...

In the first lesson in this series, children will find out what climate change is and what is causing it. They will learn about greenhouse gases an...

Children will start this lesson by considering what the basic things that everyone needs in life to be happy are, and whether everyone deserves the...

Do you know some ways in which climate change is already affecting some people? In this lesson, children will start to learn about some clearly obs...

What actually is climate change? What's causing it? Take some time, in the first of three lessons in this Complete Series, to consider these questi...

Children look closely at plastics and the linear life of a plastic bottle. They are encouraged to discuss and investigate how plastics are made, re...