Transform Our World: The World We Want

The World We Want

With humans in hibernation for the last few months due to the coronavirus pandemic, nature has had a chance to flourish and our air is cleaner than it's been for years. We've seen that our actions matter, and heard stories of how some species are thriving for the first time in years because people have stayed inside.

So as we begin to emerge from lockdown, what does the world we want look like? This set of resources are about protecting nature and taking action to help the planet and build back a world we want.

WWF's Shaping Our Future

Climate focused lesson plans and supporting resources for teachers and educators of students aged 7-14.

Backyard Nature

The Backyard Nature campaign aims to get all children to spend more time enjoying and protecting nature where they live.

Education for a sustainable planet

WWF's 'Education for a sustainable planet' aims to help you further your understanding of sustainability and equip you with relevant information, tools, activities and good ideas to make Education for Sustainable Development a cornerstone of your teaching.

Social Action in Community Spaces

This free one hour online training course is an introduction to using social action to improve community spaces, and aims to support adults working with children and young people to help them make positive changes to the places where they live, in order to make them more welcoming and accessible to all.

Climate Challenge

Tools and activities to help students aged 11-14 explore the causes and human impact of climate change, and consider what action can be taken in response.

Make Space for Nature

Engage your students to act on nature loss by creating a campaign film or an impactful speech, while fostering their communication and creativity skills.

Protecting Local Habitats

A Young Citizens resource packed with activities introducing students to endangered species in Britain.

Outdoor Learning Pack

Use this to help your students engage with the natural world, through activities such as tree identification and minibeast hunting.

WildWEB

A new digital action programme designed to equip the next generation of environmental leaders with the tools and knowledge to take action for nature during the lockdown and lead a green recovery from the COVID crisis.

Learn to Love Nature: education activities to enjoy from home

This list of educational activities from WWF are updated every week. This collection is not teacher reviewed, but we think it's great!

#iwillfornature resources

Use these resources from Eden Project Communities to explore connecting with nature and taking steps to protect it.

Tree Power

This resource aims to increase awareness of the role of trees outside forests, and engage children and young people in tree planting, conservation and education activities in their local areas.

Learning Through Landscapes

These activities are designed for going to a safe outdoors space such as a garden or local park. If this is not possible every activity has an indoor adaption.

Nature's School

PECT has created a multitude of activity ideas to enhance your children’s understanding of the world around them and to enable them to discover more about the environment.

#EcoSchoolsAtHome

The #EcoSchoolsAtHome competition has now passed, but we think these exciting litter challenges are great! Suitable for nursery, primary and secondary.

Free trees for schools

The Woodland Trust are giving away hundreds and thousands of trees to schools and communities to make sure everyone in the UK has a chance to plant a tree. Request your free tree pack!

RHS Campaign for School Gardening

This campaign inspires and supports teachers and youth leaders to develop a garden as a rich resource for young people’s learning, health and wellbeing.

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