Upper Key Stage 2 Climate Change - Mini Topic - NEW LOOK

Learn, Think, Act! - NEW LOOK

Science

• Consider my existing knowledge/understanding of climate change.
• Understand what the greenhouse effect and climate change are.
• Carry out a comparative test, explaining which variables need to be controlled and why.
• Measure and record temperature changes over time.

Enquiry questions
What do we know about climate change? What is the greenhouse effect?

Outcomes
Children will:

• Discuss our existing knowledge, thoughts, and feelings about climate change.
• Use a comparative test to demonstrate the greenhouse effect.
• Measure and record temperature changes over time.
• Make predictions and draw conclusions from our results.

Geography

• Identify natural and human causes of climate change.
• Read and interpret different types of data to compare greenhouse gas emissions from foods.
• Locate countries on a world map; use a key to compare average carbon emissions per person.

Enquiry question
What are the causes of climate change?

Outcomes
Children will:

• List some natural and human causes of climate change.
• Compare greenhouse gas emissions of different food types by reading and interpreting information on a graph and in a table.
• Locate countries on a world map and complete a key to show their average carbon emissions per person.

Geography

• To identify some of the impacts of climate change.
• To retrieve and record information from the internet or information books.
• To describe in detail how a plant or animal species is being impacted by climate change.

Enquiry question
What are the impacts of climate change?

Outcomes
Children will:

• List and think critically about some of the impacts of climate change.
• Use the internet and secondary sources of information to find out how climate change is impacting some living things.
• Present information in a fact file to describe how a plant or animal species is being impacted by climate change.

Geography

• To consider what humans need to thrive.
• To identify ways in which children’s rights are being affected by climate change.
• To act in role to build empathy and understand that some people are being impacted by climate change more than others.

Enquiry question
How is climate change affecting children's rights?

Outcomes
Children will:

• List some of the things we need to ‘thrive’; collaborate to rank these in order of importance.
• Recognise some of the rights that all children have and suggest ways in which climate change is affecting these.
• Act in role to explore how some people’s lives are being impacted by climate change and how they are responding to these challenges.

PSHE and Citizenship

• To explain some different ways in which people are taking climate action.
• To identify some ‘green’ careers.
• To invent something that could help in the ‘fight’ against climate change.

Enquiry question
How are people taking action to tackle climate change?

Outcomes
Children will:

• Research a way in which people are taking climate action.
• Identify some ‘green’ careers.
• Invent something that could be used to help fight climate change.

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.