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!
Free

Reducing vulnerability to drought: Cambodian community members work together to improve the water supply to their village [Development Partnership in Action]

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

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Kidz Zone Interactive Desktop

Have fun exploring the Go Green interactive desktop

Drought-withered sunflowers in Zambia [Annie Bungeroth]

Climate change and sustainability (237.50 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]

Environment assembly for KS1 & KS2 (33.50 kB)

Assembly on the environment for Key Stage 1 & 2, focused on growing plants and food.

Sok Chorn (10) and Khun Rany (16) fishing on the edge of the forest [Jim Holmes]

Cambodia assembly (112.08 kB)

Drama for a primary school assembly focusing on forest conservation in Cambodia.

The CAFOD-funded Village Based Development Programme promotes eco-friendly farming [Nick Robinson]

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
Play our Caring for the Forest online game

Sau Sae is a volunteer at a Reforestation Nursery run by Buddist monks [Jim Holmes]

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.

Published on 08/04/2008, last updated on 03/07/2008
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