Please follow the links below to schools and teaching resources for climate change and sustainability:
The Department for Children, Schools and Families Sustainable Development Homepage can be accessed here.
Energy Project Plus
Energy Project Plus deliver presentations to students and staff at schools in Merseyside and Cheshrie promoting energy efficiency at home and within their school. They are working in Local Authority Partnership Areas and targeting schools in socially deprived areas with the aim of running longer term projects. For further information please visit their website here
Trucking with Climate ChangeTrucking with Climate Change is a fully interactive, mobile, Northwest-focused multimedia exhibition which can visit your school. The exhibition is suitable for the Geography and Science curriculum for upper KS2 and KS3 and has strong links to English, PSHE, Citizenship and several other aspects of the curriculum including, Business Studies and Art. Click here for further details.
United UtilitiesUnited Utilities provide a network of environmental education centres, available free to every school in the Northwest. Full-time teaching and support staff offer a range of interactive and stimulating programmes on subjects such as the water cycle, water conservation, environmental protection, electricity, climate change and energy awareness. Click here for further details.
World Wildlife FundWorld Wildlife Fund support learning for sustainability through wwflearning. The site has a wealth of information for teachers and students wishing to put Education for Sustainable Development (ESD) at the heart of school life.
CREATE is a not-for-profit group helping organisations to reduce the effects of climate change and build a sustainable future. CREATE supports Sustainable Learning, an energy and water management programme just for schools. Click here for further details of CREATE's work.
To visit the Environment Agency environmental games page click here.
Visit Cheshire County Council's Schools Energy Homepage for useful examples and links to other resources.
North West Schools: Climate Change & Sustainable
Energy Regional Teaching Resource
The Field Studies Council (Brockhole Centre) have successfully
tendered to deliver the above titled project. This project will
seek to build on existing materials and resources to ensure that
students at Key Stages 2 and 3, throughout the region, receive
knowledge and information on climate change and sustainable energy,
across the curriculum.
The project will deliver the development of a targeted skills and education teaching resource to introduce regionally specific sustainable energy and climate change programmes into schools, incorporating the following tasks:
- A desk review of existing national and regional climate change and sustainable energy educational resources available to North West schools.
- A feasibility study of the curriculum opportunities for embedding climate change and sustainable energy education into Key Stages 2 & 3 (7-14 years) in North West schools.
- Production of a database of sustainable energy and climate change information sources for the North West.
- Production of a targeted teaching resource on climate change and sustainable energy for Key Stages 2 & 3.
- Outline a proposal for development of the teaching resource for additional Key Stages and HEI's.
The project is scheduled to be completed by 25th January 2008 with the intention of offering a baseline of activities to further regional funding to introduce regionally specific sustainable energy and climate change programmes in schools and HEIs. Anyone interested in the project or joining the steering group should contact Ailsa Gibson at 4NW. Further information is also available at the 4NW website .
