Looking After The Environment - No Prep * PowerPoint ** - Earth Day - Distance

How can we encourage our children to care about the environment around us? This presentation introduces the main environmental issues that children may have heard about in the news or at school. It explores this subject in an engaging way with the help of colorful photos, embedded videos, original artwork, speakers notes and activities. This resource packet helps children to access information about the environment and get them thinking about what impact we have made as humans and what changes they can make as individuals to show that they care about the wellbeing of our planet. ‘Looking after the environment’ is suitable for distance learning, whole class or in a small group working with tablets or computers.

The presentation is divided into different sections so that you can chose which part you want to teach at your own pace.

Presentation:

• Taking care of the environment
• Natural disasters - questions (knowledge harvest)
• Earthquakes
• Hurricanes
• Hurricane Ida
• Oil spills
• Overfishing
• Wild fires
• Flooding
• Wetlands
• Garbage
• Water pollution
• The sewer
• Wastewater and the environment
• Natural or man-made disasters?
• Exploring natural or man made and the human impact
• Ways in which we do not look after our environment discussion
• Our human impact
• We can do better - ways we can help
• Reflection / plenary
• Worksheets: Pdf

Natural or man-made disasters
Natural or man-made disasters - consequences
How to help the environment
Human impact - what do I waste?
Matching labels
Oil spills
Wildfire writing frame