Schools
Working with Schools
WWW is passionate about helping young people to understand about climate change. One of the main ways we do this is working with schools to support teachers with all the resources they need to make climate change and it’s related topics as fun and engaging as possible in the classroom and beyond.
To make children’s learning experience come alive, WWW links directly with explorers and scientists who have first hand experience of the Arctic and other places experiencing climate change. Most of our teaching resources use first hand information and data from these experts, enabling us to produce truly unique and inspiring materials for use in schools.
We are developing partnerships with schools across the Arctic region so that children across different countries can be in touch and find out more about how climate change is affecting the people and land in those areas.
Take a look at our SCHOOLS LEAFLET to find out how WWW can support your school.
WWW works together with other organisations to promote learning about climate change and gather information and data to develop our materials. Visit our partner page to find out more.
Teaching resources
Here teachers can sign in to access curriculum linked resources and other materials to support teaching in the classroom.
Get involved with Show the Love – Feb 6th-14th
Celebrate the Life You Want to Protect from Climate Change
Many of the people, places and things we care deeply about are being affected by climate change here and now — but your school can show the love to help protect them. By being part of the annual Show The Love campaign, you’ll join TV presenters, community groups, Premiership football clubs, and hundreds of thousands of people across the UK in showing the love for all the things you want to protect from climate change.
Download the handy school guide and corresponding activities for creative and crafty ways to get your KS1 and KS2 pupils involved. Through the fun activities, your pupils will explore the world around them, learn about how climate change affects the everyday things they love, and share the message in their community.
showthelove.org.uk/schools #showthelove
WWW is a member of The Climate Coalition – a group of over 130 organisations across the UK working together to act on climate change, and to ask politicians to put aside their differences and commit to doing whatever is necessary to protect our planet. Show The Love is an annual celebration of all that we love but could lose to climate change.
NEWS FROM SCHOOLS
On Friday 5th Jan 2018, Yr 2 children at Linden Primary school had an exciting start to the new term. Local explorer and WWW volunteer Hazel Richards popped into the school to tell 60 children all about her experiences of Antarctica to help launch their new topic for the term.
Talking about her visit, Hazel said “the children were a joy with the questions they asked and the questions they answered! They sat for over 1 1/2 hours full of enthusiasm and interest, keen to try all my explorer gear on…I know the teachers took photos and all said they learnt something new!”
Ruth Williams, Yr 2 teacher was delighted with the visit: “The children (and staff) absolutely loved it! As part of our follow up we have
written a fictional newspaper article about Hazel’s visit [main pic] and created our own Newspaper reports about Shackleton.”
If you would like a Polar adventurer to speak at your school, please contact schools@wickedweatherwatch.org.uk.
WWW and British Science Week: Exploration and Discovery
It’s been a busy couple of weeks for WWW! To celebrate #BSW18, which this year had the theme ‘Exploration and Discovery’, we delivered some exciting new school sessions trying out exciting experiments and looking at Arctic Ocean expeditions dating back as far as 1845...
read moreSixty (60) key stage 2 pupils treated to an Arctic Adventure.
After attending a CPD event organised for Geography/Humanities Subject Leaders and KS2 Curriculum Coordinators last June where previous Arctic-themed workshops and WWW materials were showcased, a request was made by Liz Price for a similar day at Longney C of E Primary Academy on 29th September 2017. The day was expertly delivered by Emma Espley and Sarah Shaw.
The first challenge for the children was to piece together WWW’s Arctic puzzle map to find out where they might be going for the rest of the day.
They were then split into two groups: those with Sarah created a fabulous Arctic-themed dance: arriving in Greenland by boat, donning their cold-weather gear, skiing to a glacier before making their way across and pitching tents. The final scene saw the children portray ice shelves and glaciers, melting away – a striking representation of the impact of climate change in the Arctic region.
Emma’s session asked: “What are the challenges facing the Arctic today?: and “What will the Arctic look like in the future?”. A card sort to look at ‘true’, ‘false’ and ‘unsure’ facts; a matching exercise of images, mainly taken during the Polar Ocean Challenge with their appropriate captions; the generation of an Arctic word cloud and a ‘spot the difference’ challenge looking at how the Greenland ice sheet has changed over 20 years or so. When asked if there was anything that surprised them, pupils mentioned the huge size of a polar bear and that around 4 million (10% of which are indigenous peoples, such as the Sami and Inuits), live within the Arctic Circle.
The final session of the day was a talk and Q&A by Digby Rawlins, Greenland expedition crew member. The children asked a lot of challenging questions, and were fascinated to meet someone who had travelled to the amazing place they’d been learning about in the morning.
If your school would like to hold a similar event please contact us – we’d love to support more schools with this awesome adventure day!
A more detailed look at the activities can be found in Emma’s blog.
If you’d like to register your school’s interest in Wicked Weather Watch and find out more about how we can work together, please get in touch using our Schools Contact Form.
Or, if you already know that you want your school to join the WWW community and have access to all our teaching materials and resources, sign up using the JOIN NOW button!
We’d love to hear from teachers using WWW or other materials to teach about climate change, and showcase examples of pupils’ work on this page. If you would like to share your ideas and example, and inspire more young people to get involved in climate change then email: info@wickedweatherwatch.org.uk or use the Schools Contact Form.
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Sixty (60) key stage 2 pupils treated to an Arctic Adventure.
After attending a CPD event organised for Geography/Humanities Subject Leaders and KS2 Curriculum Coordinators last June where previous Arctic-themed workshops and WWW materials were showcased, a request was made by Liz Price for a similar day at Longney C of E Primary Academy on 29th September 2017. The day was expertly delivered by Emma Espley and Sarah Shaw.
The first challenge for the children was to piece together WWW’s Arctic puzzle map to find out where they might be going for the rest of the day.
They were then split into two groups: those with Sarah created a fabulous Arctic-themed dance: arriving in Greenland by boat, donning their cold-weather gear, skiing to a glacier before making their way across and pitching tents. The final scene saw the children portray ice shelves and glaciers, melting away – a striking representation of the impact of climate change in the Arctic region.
Emma’s session asked: “What are the challenges facing the Arctic today?: and “What will the Arctic look like in the future?”. A card sort to look at ‘true’, ‘false’ and ‘unsure’ facts; a matching exercise of images, mainly taken during the Polar Ocean Challenge with their appropriate captions; the generation of an Arctic word cloud and a ‘spot the difference’ challenge looking at how the Greenland ice sheet has changed over 20 years or so. When asked if there was anything that surprised them, pupils mentioned the huge size of a polar bear and that around 4 million (10% of which are indigenous peoples, such as the Sami and Inuits), live within the Arctic Circle.
The final session of the day was a talk and Q&A by Digby Rawlins, Greenland expedition crew member. The children asked a lot of challenging questions, and were fascinated to meet someone who had travelled to the amazing place they’d been learning about in the morning.
If your school would like to hold a similar event please contact us – we’d love to support more schools with this awesome adventure day!
A more detailed look at the activities can be found in Emma’s blog.