The Human Impact of Climate Change (Oxfam)

• About this resource

  These sets of resources, aimed at ages 9-11 (primary pack) and 11-16 (secondary pack) respectively each offer ways of bringing climate justice into the context through five interlinked topics.

  The topics can be used sequentially or as standalone topics.   Each topic comes with a  lesson plan, incorporating  stories, pictures, film and role play to investigate the human element of the climate crisis in age and curriculum-appropriate ways. There are clear curricular links to Citizenship, English & Literacy, Geography and PSHE. Specifically, the resources signpost links to curricula from the four nations of the United Kingdom, but these resources could be used in any other country.

  Both the primary and secondary resource packs aim to:

  • Investigate the links between climate change and human rights.

  • Develop understanding of the unequal impacts of the climate crisis: why who you are and where you are in the world matters.

  • Explore how communities around the world are being affected by climate change, and how people are responding and adapting to these challenges.

  • Build empathy and promote critical thinking, debate, and discussion.

  Both resource packs include a teacher guide and background information for educators about climate justice.

• Testimonies from educators

  “Oxfam have a lot of resources, and they set out some lesson ideas and plans that are often really interesting and useful. [They are] all about climate justice and some ideas on how to teach it in the classroom.” Newcastle-based primary educator