A powerpoint that includes a wide variety of activities to do with thinking about our plastic usage and how we can reduce it. The first activity is based on the BBC’s recent documentary ‘Drowning in plastic’. The other activities are based on reading and analysing text, persuasive writing, plotting plastic waste on a map, drawing a bar chart of biodegrade times, and role plays and creative activities to do with designing new purposes for plastic bottles. All resources and worksheets are included within the ppt. Resources created by The Planet Press, a teacher-written blog that encourages students to keep up to date with world environmental news

An extended powerpoint that includes a large range of activities all to do with exploring the problem of the fashion industry, based around the recent BBC documentary ‘Fashion’s Dirty Secrets’. Activities can be taken from it to make 1-2 lessons, or if watching the documentary, it could be used as a mini scheme of work. Contents: Video - slides and worksheet to accompany the documentary ‘Fashion’s Dirty Secrets’; Impacts – a statement sorting activity around the environmental, social and economic impacts of the fashion industry Glossary activity - key words and terminology from the documentary Persuasive writing activity – persuading an MP to act on the fashion industry Mapping fashion activity – plotting the areas affected by the fashion industry Bar chart activity – plotting the world’s biggest textile exporters Role play activity – looking at each person’s opinion from all aspects of the fashion industry Campaign – create and design a new item of clothing that is ecofriendly Sweatshops – a series of activities based around another controversial aspect of the fashion industry: sweatshops and child labour

A concise factfile of these two tropical storms from the 2018 storm season Contains key background facts and figures as well as primary impacts, secondary impacts, immediate responses and long term responses (also coded as environmental, social, economic) Would be a good summary for students comparing more and less developed impacts and responses of storms; would also be a good basis for a comparison lesson