How to put sustainability and Nature at the heart of learning: Energy and climate change

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An ever-growing body of scientific evidence confirms that across our planet, the climate is changing — and we know that our reliance on fossil fuels is playing a huge part in this. In response to this truth, we’ve developed a teaching pack to help educators explore with primary school students the link between climate change and our use of energy from carbon-emitting fossil fuels. Most importantly, the pack is brimming with ideas about the role they can play and the difference they can make in halting climate change.

In this webinar, The Harmony Project team presented this pack in more detail and shared how climate change and energy use can be explored in teaching and learning in a range of subjects across the National Curriculum. Here are just a few of the activities from the pack that the team shared:

* Maths investigations based on real-life energy use data that challenge students to identify ways in which they can save energy

* English units focused on the importance of alternative, renewable forms of energy and the habitats that are currently experiencing the most dramatic effects of climate change

* Science lesson plans showing the impact on ecosystems of changes to our climate and what would happen if this could be reversed

* Ideas to promote a whole-school approach to reducing energy use

This webinar is the first in a series of themed workshops that aim to help teachers, educators and school leaders put issues of sustainability at the heart of education, and support children in forming a deep sense of connection with the natural world.