What can you do to help the planet: an illustrated guide

The resource contains general background information on topics related to climate change and biodiversity loss. It provides information on different ways we can all help the planet, reducing waste to travelling responsibly. 

These are raw resources that have been designed to be edited and added to and used in a variety of ways, in order to best fit the needs of individual key stages, classes and students.

©Trustees of the Natural History Museum. Licensed under CC BY-NC-SA 4.0.

< 30 minutes
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Preparation

What you need
  • a copy of the slides (in the resources section)
Location

Indoors

Resources

NHM Helping the planet an illustrated guide slides.pptx 1.71 MB

Step by step

  1. Download the PowerPoint slides. 
  2. Adapt the slides for your class, setting and age-group. 

Curriculum links

This activity can be used to support curriculum knowledge and skill development in citizenship, alongside enhancing nature education, with age appropriate adaptations. 

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