Climate change & environment
A healthy planet can provide enough clean air and water, food, energy and shelter for everyone. Yet our world is under threat
Those with least power, wealth and resources suffer the worst effects of environmental destruction and receive less than their fair share of the planet's benefits.
Focus on climate change
An upper KS2/KS3 resource looking at how climate change is already impacting on people’s lives in developing countries. Includes climate change game for 2-6 players.
Free
Paid-for materials
Call 0207 095 5572 to order by credit card.
Or send a cheque payable to "CAFOD" to: CAFOD Resources, 2 Romero Close, Stockwell Road, LONDON. SW9 9TY (please include full name & address details)
P&P: Add 20% on orders up to £30, 10% on orders from £30 to £75, free for orders over £75
Free materials
Call 0207 095 5572 or email resources@cafod.org.uk
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(note: we do not supply orders to overseas addresses)
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Climate change and sustainability (238.50 kB)
KS2 cross-curricular scheme of work covering five daily sessions

The impact of climate change (2.12 MB)
A 22-slide powerpoint explaining possible effects of climate change, and highlighting examples from CAFOD's work around the world

The greenhouse effect worksheet (94.79 kB)
With labels to cut out and stick onto a diagram of the greenhouse effect in action

The greenhouse effect explained (132.50 kB)
Short powerpoint outlining how greenhouse gases impact on our planet

The greenhouse effect in a jar experiment (111.00 kB)
Instructions, equipment list, methodology, plus a results chart and graph

The Eighth Day - children's sketch (720.46 kB)
The earth is God’s gift to all of us, so living sustainably helps us to share responsibility for God’s creation. But we don’t always treat the Earth with the respect it deserves, as we can see with this sketch
![Drought-withered sunflowers in Zambia [Annie Bungeroth]](/var/storage/images/media_folder/cafod/images/international_images/africa/zambia/drought_affected_crops_landscape/227352-2-eng-GB/drought_affected_crops_landscape_0column75_06space_landscape.jpg)
Environment assembly for KS1 & KS2 (33.50 kB)
Assembly on the environment for Key Stage 1 & 2, focused on growing plants and food.
![The CAFOD-funded Village Based Development Programme promotes eco-friendly farming [Nick Robinson]](/var/storage/images/media_folder/cafod/images/international_images/africa/uganda/woman_carrying_bananas/4103-2-eng-GB/woman_carrying_bananas_0column75_06space_landscape.jpg)
Caring for the forest worksheet pdf (738.03 kB)
Use this worksheet to make counters for the 'Plant a Forest' game in Fairground 21, and to think about our impact on the environment.
![Sau Sae is a volunteer at a Reforestation Nursery run by Buddist monks [Jim Holmes]](/var/storage/images/media_folder/cafod/images/international_images/asia/cambodia/sau_sae_tends_seedlings/287814-1-eng-GB/sau_sae_tends_seedlings_0column75_06space_landscape.jpg)
A day in the life of the Sau family pdf (719.12 kB)
Poster illustrating the daily activities of the Sau family in Cambodia, showing them engaged in reforestation.



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![Fatna (right) brings home wood that she and some neighbours have harvested from outside the camp in Kubum, south Darfur [Paul Jeffery/ACT/Caritas]](/var/storage/images/about-cafod/where-we-work/sudan/images/fatna-right-brings-home-wood/247664-2-eng-GB/fatna-right-brings-home-wood_0column50_04space_landscape.jpg)
![Niccollette and Shrirvanie film the aftermath of the Guyanan floods, with support from CAFOD partner Guyana Human Rights Association [CAFOD]](/var/storage/images/about-cafod/what-we-do/communications/images/after-guyana-floods/679742-1-eng-GB/after-guyana-floods_0column50_04space_landscape.jpg)

![Sok Chorn (10) and Khun Rany (16) fishing on the edge of the forest [Jim Holmes]](/var/storage/images/media_folder/cafod/images/international_images/asia/cambodia/cambodian_boys_fishing/6252-2-eng-GB/cambodian_boys_fishing_0column75_06space_landscape.jpg)
![Gabriel Murwa and his wife with their last remaining cow from a herd of 100. The others have all died. [Richard Wainwright]](/var/storage/images/where_we_work/africa/kenya/images/gabriel_murwa_and_his_wife_with_their_last_remaining_cow/290005-2-eng-GB/gabriel_murwa_and_his_wife_with_their_last_remaining_cow_0column75_06space_landscape.jpg)
