Know Better, Do Better
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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 will explore what climate change is and what is causing it, before looking at some different ways they can use their voices to teach adults some ways to change their bad habits to build a greener future for our planet.
With lesson plans, slides for the teaching input, differentiated activity idea and a variety of printable resources, these important lessons will challenge your class to become eco-warriors in their own right and give them some useful tools to use in the fight against global warming.
What is Climate Change?
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 and which human (and animal) activities contribute most to their release into our atmosphere. They will also find out about the impacts this is having on our planet and that it is making the climate more unstable.
This downloadable ESR lesson comes with a lesson plan, slideshow presentation and printable teaching resources.
What's included:
- Lesson plan
- Slides
- Activity ideas
- Differentiated sentence cards
- Question cards
- Leaflet template
- Information sheet
- Facts cards
- Heading Cards
- Worksheet
Taking Action
After recapping what climate change is and what causes it, children will explore the Industrial Revolution and how this changed the way we lived. They will then go on to look at how consumers have the power to make companies change the ways they behave. They will consider how they can encourage companies to behave in more eco-friendly ways.
This downloadable ESR lesson comes with a lesson plan, slideshow presentation and printable teaching resources.
What's included:
- Lesson plan
- Slides
- Activity ideas
- Climate Change Cause cards
- Go Green board game
- Game cards
- Blank game cards
Teaching the Adults!
Children will continue the idea of their own voices being powerful in the fight against climate change in this final lesson as they consider ways they can teach adults how to make more eco-friendly choices in their daily lives. They will think about some of the ways they can teach adults to change their bad habits and what the impact of this might be.
This downloadable ESR lesson comes with a lesson plan, slideshow presentation and printable teaching resources.
What's included:
- Lesson plan
- Slides
- Activity ideas
- Action cards
- Label cards
- Differentiated worksheets
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