Climate Change and Children’s Rights
UNICEF Canada is putting several resources on our Web site that will provide you with a variety of tools designed to support you in your work with students around climate change. We know you are working with your students to affect meaningful and lasting change, and we hope to assist in your efforts to inspire your students to take action at a local level.
This guide has been created to support secondary school educators in their efforts to work with youth to take action on climate change.
Through the thought-provoking activities contained here, students will have the opportunity to nurture their compassion and discover how climate change is affecting children around the world, especially children in developing countries. We aim to provide you with tools that will support your students in their efforts to affect meaningful and lasting change, and inspire them to take action at a local level.
For your ease, we have broken the guide into individual guides by theme.
Introduction
Connecting the Themes
Food Security
Health
Natural Disasters
Natural Environments
Water
Energy
Appendices
Connecting the Themes
Food Security
Health
Natural Disasters
Natural Environments
Water
Energy
Appendices
Additional Resources
Climate Change Reports
UNICEF report: Our climate, our children, our responsibility
UNICEF report: Climate Change and Children Climate
UNICEF report: Climate Change and Children Climate
Change Teacher Resources
Climate Change Lessons and Activities
Get Real on Climate: Climate change lesson plans for grades 9-12
Climate Change and Child Rights Education Kit on Climate Change and Child Rights – How to defend child rights affected by climate change
View the Climate Change and Child Rights Video
Climate Change Lessons and Activities
Get Real on Climate: Climate change lesson plans for grades 9-12
Climate Change and Child Rights Education Kit on Climate Change and Child Rights – How to defend child rights affected by climate change
View the Climate Change and Child Rights Video
Resources for Youth
Action Heat up over climate change: Peer education and action pack
Action Heat up over climate change: Peer education and action pack
YouTube links for the Children and Climate Change Resource Guide
As some students may have difficulty accessing YouTube while at school, we have provided links to the activities in the resource guide:
UNICEF: Climate change and children
As part of the United Nations Climate Change Conference in Bali, Indonesia, UNICEF held a series of events to highlight the effects of global warming on children and to ensure that young people are involved in debate on this issue.
Malaria TV
This clip shows a malaria parasite inside a red blood cell. Dr. Ian Crandall of the Laboratory for Collaborative Diagnostics - provides expert commentary about the malaria parasite.
In the Name of Progress: How Soya is Destroying the Amazon Rainforest
Soya farming is chewing up the Amazon rainforest at unprecedented rates as huge areas are cleared to make way for massive monoculture plantations. In the Name of Progress, a film produced by Greenpeace, illustrates the devastating effects that the booming soya market is having on the world's largest remaining rainforest.
