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.
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 | Go green with CAFOD poster pack
This fun poster and activity pack includes stories from CAFOD partners and loads of activity ideas for how your school can take action for sustainability. Includes sunflower seeds! |
![Reducing vulnerability to drought: Cambodian community members work together to improve the water supply to their village [Development Partnership in Action]](/var/storage/images/media_folder/cafod/images/campaign_images/stop_climate_chaos_campaign_images/cambodians_build_canal/232641-2-eng-GB/cambodians_build_canal_0column75_06space_landscape.jpg) |
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. |
 | Climate justice assembly (920.86 kB) Create a climate for justice! An assembly explaining how climate change affects poor communities in the developing world. |
 | Climate justice images (2.93 MB) Images to go with climate justice assembly that explores how climate change affects poor communities in the developing world. |
 | Climate change game for assembly (93.48 kB) Climate change game to accompany the Climate Justice assembly |
 | Get Handy: Action for young people (2.10 MB) Get involved with the Climate Justice campaign by writing a message to Gordon Brown! Send your messages to CAFOD in time for The Wave! |
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Have fun exploring the Go Green interactive desktop |
![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) | Climate change scheme of work (237.50 kB) Climate change cross-curricular scheme of work covering five daily sessions for KS2 |
 | 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 to accompany the climate change scheme of work. |
 | The greenhouse effect worksheet (94.79 kB) Workheet to use with the climate change scheme of work, 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 to use with the climate change scheme of work 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 to use with the climate change scheme of work. |
 | 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 |
| Environment assembly for KS1 & KS2 (33.50 kB) Assembly on the environment for Key Stage 1 & 2, focused on growing plants and food. |
 | Caring for the forest assembly (85.00 kB) A primary school assembly drama looking at forest conservation in Cambodia |
![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. |
