Sustainability Environmental and Climate Change Education

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Overview

The Sustainability Environmental and Climate Change Education (SECCE) program is an interactive after-school curriculum designed to empower young people in schools and communities to take action against climate change and environmental degradation. Through environmental sustainability and climate change education, the program equips students with the knowledge and skills needed to make a positive impact.

The SECCE program runs throughout the academic year, with practical sessions held once a week for 45 to 90 minutes depending on the type of activity and schedule. It is designed to be accessible to everyone, regardless of their professional background or prior knowledge of environmental sustainability and climate change. However, facilitators must undergo training to effectively deliver the curriculum.

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Key Focus Areas

Climate Change & Human Rights

Inform young people about why climate change is a call for concern. Discuss the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, and how climate change impacts and hinders those rights.
Help them understand the importance of climate change education and its connection with human rights, while developing their analytical and writing skills.
Young people will also be able to describe concrete reasons why climate change must be stopped. This will strengthen their abstract thinking skills.
A green and brown rural landscape leading into a bright blue ocean and slightly cloudy sky, done in oil paints.

Environmental Sustainability

Demonstrate the benefits of sustainable living in environmental management.
Be able to describe sustainability and sustainable consumption, developing critical thinking abilities.
Understand where and how materials and resources used to produce the goods they consume come from, and how to contribute to climate action by controlling their consumption.
Practice the various aspects of Reuse, Reduce, Refuse, and Rethink.

Climate Activism & Best Practices

Teach youth how to take meaningful action through poems, songs, and games.
Understand ways to identify, adapt to, and mitigate the impacts of climate change in their neighborhoods.
Understand the different ways to take concrete climate action at all levels.
Recognize the changes in the environment and climate over time by interacting with nature.
A green and brown rural landscape leading into a bright blue ocean and slightly cloudy sky, done in oil paints.
A green and brown rural landscape leading into a bright blue ocean and slightly cloudy sky, done in oil paints.

Skill Development

Enhancing communication, activism, and decision-making skills
Increase students’ understanding of different styles of communication and their ability to formulate assertive responses; improve their analytic and dialogue skills.
Enable students to adopt behaviors that enhance communication.
Strengthen verbal and nonverbal skills necessary to communicate about climate change-related issues.
Increase students’ confidence to change the world they live in.

Outdoor Activities

Enable students to carry out outdoor activities that promote environmental and climate action.
Empower students to understand the role of nature in addressing climate change.
Teach students how to set up and manage fruit and vegetable gardens.
Help students understand the benefits of organic waste.
Increase young people’s participation in environmentally friendly activities
A green and brown rural landscape leading into a bright blue ocean and slightly cloudy sky, done in oil paints.

Where Can I apply the activities from the Curriculum

We aim to nurture current and future environmental champions by focusing on young people. We train volunteers to deliver the program effectively. However, lessons from the curriculum can also be adapted for various youth settings, including:

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Summer camps

The lessons in our afterschool program are designed for any situation. We have activities that are fun but also contribute to raising awareness on the impact of climate change and environmental degradation. Participants can learn how to take action through games, skits, debates, plays, and more.

Classrooms

All of the activities in the curriculum can be taught in classrooms as an after-school program. To engage students, it is not designed to follow the mainstream education pattern. It is designed to be fun and active with lessons focusing on what students see in their daily lives.

Close-up of dried, cracked earth.
Close-up of dried, cracked earth.

Field Trips

Some of the activities in this program are designed to focus on nature. This enables students to see and understand what they are being taught directly. This makes it suitable for field trips, irrespective of the location and setting.

Social Gatherings

Since climate change impacts everyone, we developed and designed some of the activities to focus on specific social issues. This makes it possible for some of the activities to be carried out in social gatherings, depending on the audience.

Close-up of dried, cracked earth.

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