Children in a changing climate

The project will link young people in nine countries to explore and discuss the changing global climate. Participants will explore local environmental impacts, contributing factors, behavioural change and what links exist between them.
 
We anticipate that 100 schools (80 UK, 20 international) will be involved, all learning from each other and contributing to Plan’s work on child and youth engagement. Plan will facilitate children in very vulnerable communities to communicate their environmental worries, and suggest ways that young people all over the world can help each other.

Through the project, students will learn and be encouraged to take action on three key themes, laid out by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC):
 
1. Impacts of climate change – what will happen, who will it happen to?
2. Mitigation strategy – what can we do to stop it?
3. Adaptation strategies – how can we adapt to life in a changing climate?
 
Participants of the project will get the chance to speak with young people from Brazil, El Salvador, Sierra Leone, Senegal, Kenya, Malawi, Bangladesh, Philippines and Indonesia about the environmental challenges facing them.

There are a wealth of supporting resources available for Key Stages 2 to 4 about how children in vulnerable communities are coping with climate change. Please visit the climate change pages in the resource centre to access them.

A full syllabus of 14 Key Stage 3 Geography and Citizenship lesson plans is available here.

This project will also relate closely to Shoot Nations 2008 – young people all over the world documenting the changing climate around them, through the medium of photography.

Places are available on this exciting project. If your school would like to be involved, please email plan-ed@plan-international.org.uk