Environment Week

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• PSHE
• Geography
• Upper Secondary (Key Stage 4)
• Further Education (Key Stage 5)
• Lower Secondary (Key Stage 3)
• BTEC, GCSE

Introductie

It's Environment Week! Here is a lesson to go with it! Lots of interactions and potential discussions on this one. It can be customised to your learners and centre very easily. Enjoy!

Environment Week

Welcome to this lesson on Environment week. There a many interactive activities here as well as some facts. Feel free to modify this lesson to suit your specific learners or your centre.

What actions help protect the environment?

A word cloud starter activity.

Learning Objectives:

• Understand why everyday actions affect the environment.

• Identify practical ways you can reduce their environmental impact.

Lesson objectives page.

In what ways can humans negatively impact the environment?

Another mind map to get discussion going!

Human activities can harm the planet:

• Pollution

• Deforestation

• Climate change

• Waste and plastic

These problems affect wildlife, people, and future generations.

Information slide - if you move the text box you will see a simple trick I did to make it lok like the image is extended!

Which environmental issue worries you the most?

1

Plastic pollution

2

Climate change

3

Loss of wildlife

4

Air pollution

5

Something else

An interactive poll - the something else can be elaborated on by asking participants.

All of these issues are linked.

Example:

• Burning fossil fuels → climate change

• Climate change → habitat loss

• Habitat loss → wildlife decline

Solving problems often requires multiple actions together.

Informative slide.

Small changes can make a big difference:

1. Reduce waste

2. Save energy

3. Travel sustainably

4. Eat more plant-based foods

5. Buy less and reuse more

These actions reduce carbon emissions and environmental damage.

Another information slide

Which of these small actions will you try?

1

Reduce waste

2

Save energy

3

Travel sustainably

4

Eat more plant based foods

5

Buy less and resuse more

6

Something else

For this poll, a spinner is added to assist with cold calling questions!

Order the waste hierarchy

1

Reuse

2

Recover energy

3

Reduce

4

Landfill

5

Recycle

The higher up the list, the better for the environment.

Sorting question - the higher up the list, the better for the environment.

You might need to explain why reduce and reuse come above recycle (it takes energy to recycle, plus not everything can be recycled! Reducing lowers the demand/energy, Reusing takes no extra energy!

Complete the sentence

Reducing waste, saving energy and choosing sustainable travel can help reduce our carbon footprint and protect the planet.

carbon

planet

plastic

energy

water

30

s

+30 s

Because this is a very short fill in the blanks, there is a 30 second timer. Adjust it or ignore it. Or expand the activity.

Think of 3 actions your school could take to help the environment.

An open question - you could make groups or set the work in pairs here.

What is one action you will start doing this week to help the planet?

An open question to go from the collective to the personal.

Key Takeaways

• The environment supports all life on Earth.

• Human actions can damage ecosystems.

• Small everyday choices matter.

• Everyone can help protect the planet.

A summary.

What would you like to know more about?

1

Climate change

2

Renewable energy

3

Biodiversity and ecosystems

4

Plastic pollution in oceans

5

Sustainable cities

6

Something else

A poll with another spinner for cold calling if needed.

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