What is climate change? What are the consequences of climate change? Which of your actions can have the biggest impact on the climate change crisis?
In this workshop we’ll determine how converting natural land for human use contributes towards climate change. Learners will evaluate the significance of human driven contributions to climate change by deciding which human actions have the greatest contribution to the climate change crisis. We’ll encourage students to judge their own contributions and assess the importance of acting sustainably to reduce this contribution.
Age group: Year 7 - 11
Duration: 45 minutes
Learning Space: Classroom layout – with tables and chairs. Access to projector, computer/laptop and sound necessary.
Curriculum Links
Geography
- Weather and climate including the change in climate
- Human geography relating to: population and urbanisation; international development; and the use of natural resources
- Understand how human and physical processes interact to influence, and change landscapes, environments and the climate; and how human activity relies on effective functioning of natural systems
Science
- The production of carbon dioxide by human activity and the impact on climate
- Evidence, and uncertainties in evidence, for additional anthropogenic causes of climate change
- Potential effects of, and mitigation of, increased levels of carbon dioxide and methane on the Earth’s climate