Teaching Process

What to do:

1)Get your group together and watch Greenpeace’s ‘angry kid’ video (attached)

2)Ask the group how the film clip made them feel. Why do they think the boy is so angry? How does climate change make them feel? What do you understand by the term ‘inter-generational justice’?

3)Ask the group: Is it important to make your voice heard? Why?

4)Explain that the City of Copenhagen in Denmark hosted a major UN meeting in December 2009. The event, called COP15, brought together officials from all countries, along with leading scientists, activists and organisations. UNICEF worked with the City of Copenhagen to host a children’s climate forum before this meeting – 164 children aged 13 to 17 from 44 countries attended the meeting and put together a declaration which was presented to Connie Hedegaard, the EU Commissioner for Climate Change and President of the COP15 negotiations.

5)Now ask your group to work in smaller groups of around four. Ask each group to decide on one message they’d like to get across about climate change. They could choose to address their message to other children and young people, adults, parents, local councillors, the government or businesses.

6)Give each group time to prepare their message and decide how they are going to present it back to the group – they could simply speak, act it out or write it down.

7)Get the groups to film their messages, write an article or blog about them and send an email to mailto:[email protected] with information about your activities. A selection of your messages will be featured on tagd.org.uk

Take it further: For information about how your group could use their message to design a campaign or project to engage others see the ‘Do more’ section on page 13 of the action pack.