Trócaire, an overseas development agency of the Catholic Church in Ireland, has worked with educators to produce resource packs for primary, senior primary, and post-primary classes respectively.

The resources were designed with Irish contexts and curricula in mind, however educators outside of Ireland will have no problems adapting the resources to context where necessary. Similarly, many of the activities and thematic content can be used and adapted by educators working at different educational stages.

Reboot Education’s fully supported climate-crisis curriculum aims to empower the climate strike generation.

Lessons from ThoughtBox introduce the cause & effect of climate change, exploring some of the science and relating it to local contexts. Students will understand the impact of climate change on human and non-human communities and engage with the values and emotions that we are all experiencing, helping to inspire positive actions and empowerment moving forward.

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.

A four-part film and lesson series produced by the Fairtrade Foundation. A teachers’ guide is also available to support teachers and educators to use the film series with primary and secondary classes. 

A resource to break a problem down into its cause: The Root Cause Tree assists students in identifying the main cause of a problem and giving them a comprehensive understanding of the related causes and consequences. The tree provides a visual structure for analysis of the problem. 

World champion poet and UNHCR Goodwill Ambassador, Emtithal (Emi) Mahmoud’s wrote the poem, Di Baladna, which means Our Land in Arabic, following a series of discussions with refugees living on the front lines of the climate crisis in Bangladesh, Cameroon, and Jordan.

WaterAid provides clean water, sanitation and hygiene education to some of the world’s poorest people. Their Pupil Pipeline project is a fun and educational water delivery challenge for schools that will help bring clean water to communities around the world, like Finote Selam’s primary school.