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Virtual Workshop: Climate Response

Climate change has been described as a ‘wicked problem’ and it’s incredibly challenging for us to know what to do for the best.

In this Virtual Workshop pupils get the latest on climate issues and investigate the different roles and ways of responding. Are you a doer, shopper, learner or shouter?

Book a virtual workshop

Our virtual school trips are delivered online by a member of our Education Team just for your class. We’ll lead the session, delivering live activities, challenges and conversations with your class; supported by pre-recorded videos. We will provide all the resources and materials you need to support your learners in class.

Workshop overview

We begin with an activity which creates discussion amongst the students and draws out any pre-existing knowledge, understanding and experiences linked to climate change. We also put the challenge of climate change within the context of the global COVID-19 pandemic.

Following on from this we briefly review the science of climate change – the root cause of the problem and the likely impacts. We use a video of Eden’s Rainforest Biome which includes some models and analogies to help us to understand.

The majority of the session focuses on how we can all respond as individuals to the climate challenge by exploring the roles that we can take as doers, shoppers, learners or shouters. This is done using activities linked to various pieces of video content and group conversations. The focus is on efficacy – we can all do something and that doing something makes a difference.

Finally, we discuss how our own behaviour influences what other people do and that by working together we can demand that governments and business also take action and effect real change.

How it works

An Eden Teacher will be based in the Core Education Centre at Eden and will lead the live workshop. You and your class will be the only participants – it's just for you.

The Eden Teacher will introduce Eden and the session and lead your pupils through a mixture of presentation, film, short tasks, Q&A. At least one teacher will need to remain present during the workshop, either in your physical classroom or as a participant on the call if pupils are joining from multiple locations. We’ll ask for your help organising groups and selecting pupils to give feedback.

We’ll provide all the resources necessary prior to the session and ask you to make them available to pupils via individual devices or in hard copy – we keep this to a minimum.

The sessions are delivered via video conference using Zoom (our preference) or Microsoft Teams. We’ll send you your unique meeting details after your booking confirmation.

You’ll need a computer with the ability to join a videoconference with a webcam and microphone connected to or built into the computer so that the Eden Teacher can see and hear your class.

You’ll also a smartboard, screen or projector and speakers connected to the computer so that your class can see and hear the Eden Teacher.

Each event is only attended by a single class with a unique access code for each booking.
Sessions are delivered from the Eden Project in a location where no members of the public will have access to seeing the students on screen.
A minimum of two adults should always be present online, if Eden staff believe they are alone with the group they will end the call.
It is not acceptable for anyone (including school staff) to record visual or audio content, take screen shots or videos or share private information without documented permission.
If any pupils are joining from home rather than from the school classroom, participants will be held in a waiting room before the event and teachers are invited from the waiting room into the meeting first to verify they are teachers and to confirm the names of students expected in the session.