Sep 25, 2024
As part of our 40th Anniversary celebrations, we're sharing 40 activities for you to use in your classroom. We'll add more each month during the 2024-25 academic year - click the links to access the activities.
These two activities were shared in the January 2025 edition of the e-newsletter:
- What do you see? What do I see? - This activity starts with a story and involves children seeing different things in the same picture, looking at nature in a new way and asking searching questions
- How do families really live in other countries? Find out about the everyday lives of ordinary people from different parts of the world with this online resource
These two classroom activities were shared in our November 2024 e-newsletter:
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Pass the Story - this activity helps promote active listening and supports collaboration and empathy-building while supercharging young peoples’ imaginations
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Peer Compliment Chain - this activity helps with building a caring community in the classroom
These two outdoor activities were shared in our October 2024 e-newsletter:
- Sound Landscapes promotes active listening, nature connection and critical thinking
- Trust Walk promotes cooperation, communication skills and taking care of others
These two were shared in our September 2024 e-newsletter and relate to friendship through empathy-building:
- A friend is someone who... is a series of connected activities designed to help young people identify attitudes and behaviours which are important for friendship and to encourage actions and ways of speaking that show care
- Empathy minute helps young people see the world through the experiences of others
These first two were shared in our April 2024 e-newsletter to member schools in preparation for the Youth Climate Summit in July:
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Our School’s Climate Success is a poster exhibition to showcase climate action projects in your school and to share your top tips with others
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Letters to the Earth Campaign gives your students a platform to express their thoughts and feelings about the climate crisis