This activity helps to highlight climate justice issues using carbon emission and vulnerability data for a selection of countries using ‘Top Trump’ cards. Students compare countries’ historical carbon emissions and their vulnerability to climate change, revealing that nations with lower emissions often face greater climate impacts. This activity emphasises the need for equitable climate policies and international support for vulnerable countries, underscoring the importance of addressing climate justice by helping those who have contributed least to the problem but suffer the most.

The creators of these resources write: 

“Educating children on the impact of their food choices is essential in nurturing future generations that are both health and environmentally conscious. With this in mind,  ProVeg UK have developed a brand-new educational programme – Canteen to Classroom – in order to teach children about the food they eat: where it comes from, how it is made, and its impact on our health and the planet. With 24 high-quality, evidence-based free lesson plans, we save teachers precious time and effort.”

As feelings of eco-grief and climate anxiety grow, educators are grappling with how to help students learn about the violent systems causing climate change while simultaneously navigating the emotions this knowledge elicits. This book provides resources for developing emotional and existential tenacity in college classrooms so that students can stay engaged.

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.

Christian Aid has produced a set of interactive activities for small groups to critically explore the impacts of weather-related disasters in different contexts.

The worksheets and assembly resources use real world examples and images to explore how the impacts of disasters differ and how this relates to pre-existing inequalities. This can be a segway into introducing climate justice.

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.