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For parents

This website if for your children to take part in finding out how they can play a role in tackling climate change.

 

Help your child by providing the following information:


At home – explain how the home is heated.  Do you have gas radiators, electric fires or heaters?

Shopping – find out about seasonal food with your child and look for locally produced seasonal food.

Here you can see what is in season during the competition

Travelling – support your child to investigate some alternative routes to school.

This website provides information for parents who might have questions or concerns about walking or biking to school.

Holiday plans - why not look into train journeys for your holidays?
It can be an enjoyable way for children to learn about the place you are visiting.

Excellent website to plan journeys by train

PARENTS AND TEACHERS

For information on how you can find funding to help with an eco project in the home or at school, this is a useful website.

 

For teachers

Sheffield Hallam University Centre for Science Education have provided some materials for you to support investigation of the competition during during class time.

The materials have been designed for use by teachers for:
Key Stage 2 – 7-11 year olds
Key Stage 3 – 12-14 year olds

These tasks are presented as thinking and doing activities, where there is opportunity for pupils to work with others to consider what they think and feel about this issue, and how they can change their behaviour and practice to limit their carbon footprint.

Pupils are also required to consider how they will influence their peers, their school and their community to also make a change for the better. They will need to suggest creative forms of persuasion to campaign for and communicate their thinking.

Upd8 - Teachers Site

This project is supported by the Association of School and College Leaders.

 

Using the Carbonator

Carbonator Notes for Adults

Introductory teacher notes can be downloaded here.

Download  Carbonator Notes for Adults

 

Carbon Control: Getting Started

Carbon Control Activity 1

This is a stimulus activity all about getting pupils discussing the consequences of global climate change.

Download  Carbon Control Activity 1

Carbon Control Activity 2

Gets young people engaged with using the carbon calculator and exploring how they can make meaningful changes to global climate change.

Download  Carbon Control Activity 2

Carbon Control Activity 3

Once young people have got their ideas together they need to be able to share them with others.

Download  Carbon Control Activity 3

Thinking Frame

Download  Thinking Frame

 

Activities for Carbon Control

Worksheet: advert

Worksheets are all about helping youngsters getting a message across using different media such as an advertisement. Encourage your students to use their top ideas for controlling their carbon footprint and create an advertisement to explain what they would do and why other people should get involved too.

Download  Worksheet: advert

Worksheet: podcast

Worksheets are all about helping youngsters getting a message across using different media such as a podcast. Encourage your students to use their top ideas for controlling their carbon footprint and create a podcast to explain what they would do and why other people should get involved too.

Download  Worksheet: podcast

Worksheet: presentation

Worksheets are all about helping youngsters getting a message across using different media such as a presentation. Encourage your students to use their top ideas for controlling their carbon footprint and create a presentation to explain what they would do and why other people should get involved too.

Download  Worksheet: presentation

Worksheet: webpage

Worksheets are all about helping youngsters getting a message across using different media such as a webpage. Encourage your students to use their top ideas for controlling their carbon footprint and create a webpage to explain what they would do and why... so other people could get involved too.

Download  Worksheet: webpage

 

Top tips for activities

Top tips: Advert

You are in control - making a good advert. Create an advert to explain what you will do and why other people should get involved.

Download  Top tips: Advert

Top tips: Podcast

You are in control - making a good podcast. Create a podcast to explain what you will do and why other people should get involved.

Download  Top tips: Podcast

Top tips: Presentation

You are in control - making a good presentation. Create a presentation to explain what you will do and why other people should get involved.

Download  Top tips: Presentation

Top tips: Webpage

You are in control - making a good webpage. Create a webpage to explain what you will do and why other people should get involved.

Download  Top tips: Webpage

 

The curriculum material has been produced and designed by
The Centre for Science Education Sheffield Hallam University

 

Extra Resources

For extra teaching resources, visit:
Adventure Ecology

And to find out more about Sustainable Food in schools, join up with this initiative:
http://www.foodforlife.org.uk/

 
Hope Education RSA an RSA & Hope Education project

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The age group with the lowest average emission is Adult/Teacher (0.152 tonnes per week)

 
 

The region with the lowest emission is WestMidlands (0.006 tonnes per week)

 
 

The average individual emissions per week are 0.173 tonnes of CO2.

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