Climate Action Week 2022: Upper Primary Lesson 1

The first in our series of Live Lessons for Climate Action Week 2022 all about what is causing our planet to warm up so we can understand the problem of climate change. This lesson will explore some of the different environmental problems affecting our planet and the reasons they are happening, with a special focus on what climate change is and what does it mean to us all. We will discuss the greenhouse effect in the atmosphere, global warming, learn about greenhouse gases and which are the human-related activities that are increasing them.

00:00 - Introduction
02:40 - What will we be learning about this week?
03:31 - What would we like you to do as part of Climate Action Week?
05:38 - Lesson 1 begins: What's happening to our planet?
13:20 - How is our climate changing?
15:38 - The Greenhouse Effect
19:43 - Can we model the Greenhouse Effect?
24:14 - How do Greenhouse Gases work?
29:16 - Where are Greenhouse Gases coming from?
40:00 - How do Greenhouse Gases relate to the things we buy?
43:35 - Conclusion