Climate Change

ring climate change to life in your classroom with this five-lesson, fully resourced teaching pack. Each PowerPoint is carefully designed with clear learning objectives, success criteria, engaging activities, and built-in opportunities for assessment. Perfect for KS3 and adaptable for KS4, these lessons cover the essential building blocks of climate change education while encouraging critical thinking and concern for society.

What’s Included:

Lesson 1 – Why is Our Climate Changing?

Introduces the difference between weather and climate.

Explains natural and historical climate changes (ice ages, medieval warm period).

Activities on temperature cycles and graph interpretation

Lesson 2 – Evidence of Climate Change

Uses fossils, ice cores, and tree rings to show how scientists measure past climates.

Explains greenhouse gases and the greenhouse effect with student-friendly diagrams.

Includes challenge questions and activities to deepen understanding

Lesson 3 – Carbon Footprint

Defines what a carbon footprint is and how daily life contributes to it.

Interactive quizzes and reflection tasks to calculate personal footprints.

Encourages learners to suggest realistic ways to reduce emissions

Lesson 4 – Impacts of Climate Change

Covers global impacts including stronger hurricanes, melting glaciers, rising sea levels, and biodiversity loss.

Real-world case studies (e.g., Arctic species, Bangladesh, Maldives).

Task-based learning with opportunities for group discussion and independent fact-files

Lesson 5 – Impacts of Rising Sea Levels

Focus on sea level change over time, with clear data interpretation tasks.

Case study: Kiribati – one of the first nations threatened with becoming uninhabitable.

Students explore social, economic, and environmental consequences of flooding

Features:

✔ Ready-to-teach PowerPoint slides (no additional planning required).
✔ Clear Learning Objectives and Success Criteria for every lesson.
✔ Activities ranging from starter quizzes and case studies to plenaries and fact-files.
✔ Stretch and challenge opportunities for higher ability students.
✔ Fully linked to geographical concepts such as climate cycles, human impacts, and societal consequences.

Who is it for?

KS3 Geography (Years 7–9) – ideal for introducing climate change.

KS4 Geography – adaptable for GCSE courses as foundation material.

Cross-curricular links with science and citizenship.