What's happening in schools?

You might like to have a look at 'Tiki - the Enviro-Penguin'. The link is on the front pag of www.oneclimate.net, halfway down the right hand column.

The site is for kids 7-12 years - though older kids enjoy it too, and adults love it! It has won assorted major awards, and pretty well every week an educator or educational publisher will make contact to ask permission to reprint bits of it. It has lots of Guides on Climate and related issues, like Food and Pollution. Kids write in to Tiki from all over the world.

For older pupils, you could try the OneWorld Guides, which has a series of topics like Climate Change, Water, etc. And there are some 70 Country Guides on developing countries, each related also to the world's main sustainable development and poverty-eradication goals (the Millennium Development Goals).

hope this helps!

Tim,

Here something to get children's minds working on what a carbon footprint looks like...

To quote a writer and singer that specializes in communicating with wee ones (Pete Seeger):

"You see, it's like this. Imagine a see-saw, and on one end of it there's a basket half full of big rocks. And that end is down on the ground. On the other end, there's a basket a quarter full of sand, up in the air. People are standing around putting sand in that basket with teaspoons, and you say, 'Look, how are those few people with teaspoons ever going to fill that basket and tip that scale. The sand is leaking out just as fast as it's going in. Hopeless. Why even try.' But I say, this has been going on for hundreds of years, and there are more people with teaspoons coming all the time, and one day it's going to tip, and everyone will ask, 'How did it happen so fast!'"

I'm inspired for a moment and I think, "Yes! Have teaspoon, will travel! I' can help with climate change.

Mirce, A graphic image of our Carbon Footprint puts us in that frame of mind.

Imagine a child sitting on a bus or in a car that is capable of visualizing what a teaspoon of CO2 looks like...

...headed down the road, maybe picking up lots of other children, stuck in traffic, heater or air condition running perhaps, thinking I could've taken my bike or walked, instead of puffing out teaspoons of CO2.

That's your footprint in a teaspoon...