Lesson Planning
Designing a climate-friendly school
Topics Year 4/5
This unit is part of
Climate Change - Mini Topic - NEW LOOK Learn, Think, Act! - NEW LOOK
Objectives
Design
- To identify and compare ways in which schools can take climate action.
- To work with others to research, plan and evaluate a design of a climate-friendly school.
- To select from and use a wide range of tools and materials to construct a model of a climate-friendly school.
Enquiry Question
How can we take climate action at school?
Outcomes
Children will:
- To identify and compare ways in which schools can take climate action.
- To work with others to research, plan and evaluate a design of a climate-friendly school.
- To select from and use a wide range of tools and materials to construct a model of a climate-friendly school.
Provided Resources
You Will Also Need
Scissors
Coloured pencils
Cardboard packaging
Scrap paper and material
Empty plastic bottles and containers
White glue
Lego (optional)
Weblinks
This selection of clips from Going Green could be used to provide inspiration for the children’s climate-friendly school designs.
As an alternative to model-making, children could use this Minecraft Education sustainability kit to build their climate-friendly school!
Join Let’s Go Zero 2030 - work towards becoming a carbon-zero school by 2030