Right now, the government is considering dropping climate change from the national geography curriculum. Join the thousands of people who have already taken action.
Teaching about climate change is crucial to ensuring a new generation of young people who understand and are able to be leaders on climate change, taking action to protect the environment and human life.
The current geography national curriculum says it is important that:
“Geography inspires pupils to become global citizens by exploring their own place in the world, their values and their responsibilities to other people, to the environment and to the sustainability of the planet”.
Compare this to the most similar aim in the new curriculum:
“..understand the processes that give rise to key physical and human geographical features of the world, how these are interdependent and how they bring about spatial variation and change over time”.
If this new curriculum is implemented younger children will come away with a very different view about their place in the world. They cannot possibly come to see that they are the change that is needed. This curriculum sees children as vessels to be filled with knowledge, not as thinking, feeling people determining their own future.
People and Planet have launched a petition asking Michael Gove to reconsider dropping climate change from the National Curriculum.
For more background information and to sign the petition please visit: http://peopleandplanet.org/teach-climate