If we share the same sea and the same air, we should be sharing our ideas and actions with everyone, not just each other.
Member of Children’s Parliament
Your Climate Week is a resource to help children create, and lead their own climate week activities, inspiring others to action.
Developed in collaboration with children, this resource recognises their vital role as active participants and decision-makers in climate learning. The activities and tools have been developed in response to children’s calls to action.
This resource supports adults to create the conditions for children to lead. It promotes children’s views, children’s rights, and sustainability learning, while offering activities that help children identify what matters to them, explore key issues, and develop their own projects. It also encourages children to plan next steps and consider how to involve others in their ideas and actions.
Alongside these activities, the resource includes examples from schools illustrating the growth of children’s ideas throughout the project and how teachers can support meaningful leadership in learning.
Introducing children to the importance of Climate Week. Children will explore connections to the planet and their human rights.
Helping children find inspiration for Climate Week. Children will use the Climate Week search sheet (access here) to explore ideas.
Giving children the chance to discuss and agree on what matters most to them. Children share ideas and choose themes.
Inviting children to design and plan their own Climate Week activity. Children will develop ideas and create child-led plans together.
Helping children and teachers reflect together on their Climate Week. Children and teachers will celebrate successes and continue learning beyond.
Providing links to extend learning and understanding. Children and teachers will explore resources that support deeper understanding and continued learning.
The activities above can be adapted to suit a range of classes and groups. They encourage children to share ideas, work together, and connect learning to their everyday lives and local community.
There are five sections to explore, supporting children to build on their understanding of children’s rights, climate, and environmental issues. Where possible, activities can take place outdoors, as this can help children connect more directly with the environment and consider its importance.
Children’s rights should be used as a starting point for this learning, helping children to explore climate change and wider Learning for Sustainability themes such as fairness, wellbeing, and caring for people and the planet, with learning continuing beyond Climate Week as part of everyday practice.
Thank you to all children, teachers, schools and partners who have helped make this resource and demonstrated how children can and should be at the centre of Climate Week planning and delivery.
This resource is funded by the Scottish Government.