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Climate Schools Programme

Empower your students to explore innovative solutions to climate change and develop skills with the Climate Schools Programme.

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Overview

The climate crisis is one of our biggest challenges and engineers are key to tackling it. The Climate Schools Programme gives you the resources, knowledge and confidence to address this issue with your students. It helps stimulate debate and interest and communicate a solutions-focused message. The programme is designed to make the links between curriculum subjects and real world careers.

Developed in collaboration with industry experts, it covers valuable facts and stats and showcases lots of role models who work in green jobs to inspire your students.

The curriculum-linked resources span English, science, and geography, giving you everything you need to deliver impactful lessons. Get lesson plans, activity plans, case studies, curriculum alignments, and more. Students develop essential skills such as teamwork, problem-solving, and communication – all vital for their future careers.

Plus, it’s flexible. Your school can choose to do 1 or 2 lessons, or use the resources and activities with students across all subjects.

The Climate Schools Programme is free and aimed at 11 to 14 year-olds in state-funded secondary schools in England, Wales, Scotland, and Northern Ireland.

Details

School subject
  • Chemistry
  • Engineering
  • Physics
Curriculum links
  • Biology: Material cycles and energy
  • Physics: Energy
  • Engineering
  • Design and technology
  • Sciences - Planet earth: Energy sources and sustainability
  • Sciences - Planet earth
  • Technologies - Craft, design, engineering and graphics: Application of engineering
  • Technologies - Craft, design, engineering and graphics
  • Physics: Energy transfer
  • Design thinking and engineering: Engineering
  • Sciences - Earth and universe: The environment and human influences
  • Sciences - Forces and energy
  • Technology & design - Manufacturing
  • Technology & design - Control
  • Technology & design - Design
Group size
Whole class
Participation level
Hands-on, Watching or listening, Audience participation, Independent work
Duration
Multi-session - flexible
Cost
Free
Location
In-school
  • UK-wide

Learning outcomes

  • Improve engagement, interest or enjoyment in STEM subjects
  • Attainment and progress
  • Learning what the engineering workplace is like
  • Develop engineering employability skills
  • Improve awareness and aspirations for STEM-related study and careers
  • Challenge stereotypes by showing the diversity of disciplines, people and skills involved in engineering

Frameworks

Gatsby benchmarks

The Gatsby benchmarks are a framework for good careers guidance for schools across all of England and in some areas across the rest of the UK. This experience helps your school to reach the following benchmarks:

  • 2 - Learning from career and labour market information
  • 3 - Addressing the needs of each pupil
  • 4 - Linking curriculum learning to careers

EqualEx

  • Introduce and Inspire

Essential skills

The essential skills every young person needs to succeed in education and their future career. Find out more at the Skills Builder Partnership. This experience builds the following skills:

  • Creativity - Using imagination and generating new ideas
  • Listening - Receiving, retaining and processing information
  • Problem solving - Finding solutions to challenges
  • Speaking - Transmitting information or ideas
  • Adapting - Overcoming challenges and setbacks to achieve goals
  • Teamwork - Working cooperatively with others to achieve a shared goal

Enrichment framework

  • 5 - An accessible and engagement enrichment offer
  • 7 - An outcomes-focused enrichment offer

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