Our free climate change teaching resources are suitable for KS2, KS3 and KS4. The range of resources include a website for KS2, complete lessons, homework or extension activities and links to other recommended websites and resources.
Experiments/Demonstrations/Activities
Floating Gardens
In Bangladesh communities are fighting the consequences of climate change by building floating gardens, rafts that they grow their crops on. Instructions on how to build a model of a ‘floating garden’ using very simple material and more information on the project are provided. Suitable for KS2 - 4.
Download worksheet (pdf)
The Whoosh Bottle
Video and instruction sheet produced by the Institution of Chemical Engineers shows teachers how to perform the whoosh bottle, a dramatic demonstration showing the combustion of methane.
video and instruction sheet
Wordsearch
This climate change wordsearch contains all the key words on climate change required for KS4 Science. A great homework or extension activity.
wordsearch (pdf)
wordsearch answers (pdf)
www.climatechoices.org.uk
www.climatechoices.org.uk for year 5 and 6 teachers, This website contains lots of ready to use activities including games, videos, case studies and powerpoints. With a special emphasis on food, these materials are relevant to science, geography, citizenship and D&T.
These resources have been produced with the assistance of the European Union. Funded by European Commission EuropeAid Cooperation Office.
Climate change - who's in control?
Help students explore who should take responsibility for reducing the effects of climate change through role play involving different perspectives which promote discussion and debate. Designed to take place over two to three lessons with background information for teachers and related videos this resource is ideally suited to Key Stage 3 and 4 students in science and citizenship.
Climate change Leaflet
The impact of climate change is arguably the greatest injustice of our time. The world's poorest people have contributed the least to changing our climate yet they are the hardest hit. This leaflet looks at the effects of climate change on poor communities and what actions are being taken to tackle it.
Climate change: Catastrophy for the world's poor?
Additional websites and resources
Articles and websites to aid students' research into climate change.
The arguments made by climate change sceptics. Article on the BBC News website, December 2009, looking at climate change sceptics views and the counter arguments made by climate scientists.
What's the worse that can happen? Video produced by an enthusiastic American scientist which looks at why we must act now to combat climate change, irrespective of whether or not humans have caused it. A good basis for discussion.
Impact of climate change in developing countries. A series of diaries showing the impact of climate change in the developing world.
Directgov website provides wealth of information on climate change including causes of climate change, climate change myths, UK climate projections and adapting to climate change
Logicity is an interactive computer game produced as part of Depra's climate change programme. In a 3D virtual city players have to reduce the carbone footprint of an average resident.
Top climate scientists share their outlook. Article in the Financial Times november 2009
The 11th Hour. Narrated by Leonardo DiCaprio this documentary film describes the last moment when we can have an impact on climate change, exploring how we live, how we impact the earth's ecosytems and what we can do to change.
A counter arguement to Al Gore's 'An Inconvenient Truth' from Tom Moriarty a Senior Scientist at the US Department of Energy’s National Renewable Energy Laboratory.
Video
Writer and broadcaster Adam Hart-Davis reports from Kenya on the threat posed by climate change. This film was produced in 2006, but with drought currently hitting Kenya, the issues remain as urgent as ever.
- download as Window Media file (WMV, 13Mb)
