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A Week in the Future: Day 4 – The Planet
What can we do to help secure the future of planet Earth?
- Project page
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GALWAD: A story from our future
- Ages
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7-8 8-9 9-10 10-11
- Topic
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Identity and diversity Sustainability and our future Wellbeing and resilience
It’s not enough to look after ourselves and our communities – we also need to consider our planet. This free set of learning resources invites pupils aged 7–11 to think about what we can all do to take better care of planet Earth: taking on some of the biggest environmental challenges facing the planet, exploring the importance of fungi to our lives, designing and building a miniature ‘story garden’, and taking on the Fungi or Seaweed? quiz.
These resources are part of A Week in the Future, five sets of themed learning resources inspired by GALWAD: A story from our future – a multiplatform, multilingual story set in a possible future world of 2052. Each resource can be presented as standalone lessons or across a full week of learning, and includes background information, links, curriculum mapping and ideas for practical activities.
You can access each set of resources for free via the main GALWAD learning page, and through the individual pages dedicated to Day 1 – The Past, Day 2 – People, Day 3 – Place, Day 4 – The Planet and Day 5 – The Future. Each of these pages contains links to download free PDF and PowerPoint files, and to stream free online films hosted on YouTube.
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Curriculum links
Story Gardens
England:
PSHE: Living in the Wider World - carrying out shared responsibilities for protecting the environment.
Personal, Social & Health Education, Science
Key Stage: KS2
Northern Ireland:
The World Around Us: Place, Change over Time.
Personal Development and Mutual Understanding: Mutual understanding in the local and wider community.
Key Stages: KS2
Scotland:
Social studies: People, place and environment.
Levels: Second Level
Wales:
Expressive Arts, Humanities, Mathematics & Numeracy, Science & Technology
Progression Steps: PS3
Future Fungi
England:
PSHE: Living in the Wider World - carrying out shared responsibilities for protecting the environment.
Science: Living things and their habitats.
Personal, Social & Health Education, Science
Key Stage: KS2
Northern Ireland:
The World Around Us: Place, Change over Time.
Personal Development and Mutual Understanding: Mutual understanding in the local and wider community.
Personal Development & Mutual Understanding, The World Around Us
Key Stages: KS2
Scotland:
"Social studies: People, place and environment.
Sciences: Planet Earth - Biodiversity and interdependence." Sciences, Social Studies
Levels: Second Level
Wales:
Expressive Arts, Humanities, Mathematics & Numeracy, Science & Technology
Progression Steps: PS3
Future Innovators
England:
PSHE: Living in the Wider World - carrying out shared responsibilities for protecting the environment, the different groups that make up their community; what living in a
community means.
Personal, Social & Health Education, Science
Key Stage: KS2
Northern Ireland:
The World Around Us: Place, Change over Time.
Personal Development and Mutual Understanding: Mutual understanding in the local and wider community.
Key Stages: KS2
Scotland:
Sciences, Social studies: People, place and environment.
Levels: Second Level
Wales:
Expressive Arts, Humanities, Mathematics & Numeracy, Science & Technology
Progression Steps: PS3