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What is climate change and how will it affect our city?
Help to future proof our planet through fun activities that investigate how we can respond to climate change.
Students will learn about the role of transport, energy, food and clothing, and leave the programme feeling empowered to make a difference.
Year level | 5 to 13 |
Curriculum level | 2 to 8 |
Availability | Available year-round |
Times | 9.30am to 12 noon or 12.15pm to 2.30pm |
Sites | By arrangement – please enquire |
Cost | Free |
Number of students | Maximum of 35 |
What is climate change and how will it affect our city? Help to future proof our planet through fun activities that investigate how we can respond to climate change.
Students will learn about the role of transport, energy, food and clothing, and leave the programme feeling empowered to make a difference.
Students may be able to:
Learning area | Strand | Curriculum level | Achievement objectives |
Social Science | 2 | Understand how people make choices to meet their needs and wants. | |
Social Science | 3 | Understand how people make decisions about access to and use of resources. | |
Social Science | 4 | Understand how exploration and innovation create opportunities and challenges for people, places, and environment. Understand that events have causes and effects. Understand how formal and informal groups make decisions that impact on communities. Understand how people participate individually and collectively in response to community challenges. |
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Social Science | 5 | Understand how people’s management of resources impacts on environmental and social sustainability. | |
Social Science | 6 | Understand how people interact with natural environments and that this interaction has consequences. | |
Social Science | 7 | Understand how the processes that shape natural and cultural environments change over time, vary in scale and from place to place, and create spatial patterns. Understand how people’s perceptions of and interactions with natural and cultural environments differ and have changed over time. |
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Social Science | 8 | Understand how policy changes are influenced by and impact on the rights, roles and responsibilities of individuals and communities. | |
Science | Planet Earth and Beyond – Interacting Systems | 2 | Describe how natural features are changed and resources affected by natural events and human action. |
Science | Living World - Ecology | 3 and 4 | Recognise that living things are suited to their particular habitat and how they respond to environmental change, both natural and human-induced |
Science | Planet Earth and Beyond – Interacting Systems | 5 | Investigate how heat from the Sun, the Earth and human activities is distributed around Earth by the geosphere, hydrosphere and atmosphere. |
Science | Planet Earth and Beyond – Interacting Systems | 6 | Develop an understanding of how the geosphere, hydrosphere, atmosphere and biosphere interact to cycle carbon around Earth. |
Science | Planet Earth and Beyond –Earth Systems and Interacting systems | 7 | Develop an understanding of the causes of natural hazards and their interactions with human activity on Earth. |
Science | Planet Earth and Beyond –Earth Systems and Interacting systems | 8 | Develop an in-depth understanding of the interrelationship between human activities and the geosphere, hydrosphere, atmosphere and biosphere over time. |