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Sally Foster-Fulton, Head of Christian Aid Scotland, urges educators to follow the lead of young people and swap fundraising for activism.
Use these tools to find out about your pupils’ attitudes and understanding around charitable activities.
Aims
- To critically evaluate charitable activities
- To reflect on what is the best action to take about an issue
Holly Gillibrand, activist and school pupil urges us all to act now to halt climate change before it’s too late.
Explore some of the possible actions that pupils can take to mitigate climate change with this diamond 9 ranking activity.
Aims
- Explore different types of activities, their advantages and disadvantages
- Create a diamond 9 to agree which is the best action to take
Listen to activist poet, Kathy Jetner-Kijiner’s poem ‘Dear Matafele Peinem’ and create your own activist poem on the need for us to take action on climate change.
Aims
- Increase knowledge and understanding of climate change and the issues those affected face.
- Develop our skills in writing a poem.
Young climate activist, Shay MacKay from Boroughmuir HS in Edinburgh, explains why she has been joining 1000’s of other young people worldwide in striking for climate change.
Ell Merchant, #YOYP Ambassador for Aberdeen, explains what responsible consumption means to her and why young people should be leading the way towards positive change.
Given the growing profile of teacher-led practitioner enquiry in Scotland, how relevant is Learning for Sustainability to teachers in developing their enquiry skills? Kim McCauley from Wosdec finds out.
Tanya Wisely, director of IDEAS and author of new report, Understanding the impact of Global Citizenship Education, reports on the importance of why we should measure progress in this area.
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This activity is designed to find out the extent to which pupils are able to empathise with people whose lives may seem different from their own. It also considers the extent to which pupils understand their place in an interconnected world and how they can make a change.
Aims
This activity is designed to find out the extent to which:
- Young people are able to make connections between their lives and the lives of others locally and globally
- Young people think they can make a difference
