Learning Objectives

-To make the link between climate change and the effects it has on the world’s most vulnerable communities.

Teaching Process

What to do:

1)Ask everyone in your group to think about any words they associate with ‘climate change’. Ask them to note these words down on the scraps of paper. Use blu-tac and ask everyone to stick their words up on a wall. Go around the group and get everyone to share their words. This will give you a good idea about what the group already knows.

2)Now get your group together and watch a short film ‘UNICEF: Climate change and children’ on You Tube. http://tinyurl.com/climatevideo

3)If you don’t have access to the internet, ask the group to have a look at the flowchart on page 3 of the action pack.

4)After watching the film (or looking at the flowchart), ask your group if anything surprised them. Was there anything in the film/flowchart they hadn’t thought related to climate change, if so, what?

5)Now ask everyone to take a sheet of paper and use all the material provided to get creative and show at least three ways that climate change can affect the world’s most vulnerable children. If people are struggling to find three effects, here are some starting points: hunger, education, healthcare, shelter, water and sanitation.

Some talking points:

Why can the most vulnerable children be more at risk to the effects of climate change?

How does climate change affect children’s rights? What are children’s rights?