Project
Student-led Climate Action Clubs build skills and enable students to take a solutions-based approach in their school or community.
Secondary
The climate crisis is one of our biggest challenges and engineers are key to tackling it. The Climate Action Club gives you the knowledge and confidence to address this issue with your students.
What is a Climate Action Club?
Developed as part of EngineeringUK's Climate Schools Programme, the Climate Action Club provides an extra-curricular activity that can be run alongside or completely separately to the programme itself.
Aimed at students aged 11 to 14, the club helps stimulate debate and interest in young people by communicating a climate-solutions focused message outside of the classroom.
The Climate Action Club takes a proactive, relatable, and solutions-based approach by giving students the opportunity to work on engineering or technology-based projects to improve their school or local community’s climate impact.
The club gives students experience and knowledge of the range of climate action activities that are possible and builds their own understanding of the skills they already possess and can develop to tackle climate change now and in the future.
With plenty of opportunities for team-working and problem solving, the Climate Action Club also gives students the chance to develop their leadership skills by conducting and leading sessions themselves outside of the classroom.
What support and resources are provided?
Capacity
The Climate Action Club is ideally suited to groups of up to 40 students.
Improve engagement, interest or enjoyment in STEM subjects
Improve attainment and progress in STEM subjects
Develop engineering employability skills
Improve awareness and aspirations for STEM-related study and careers
Challenge stereotypes by showing the diversity of disciplines, people and skills involved in engineering
The Gatsby benchmarks are a framework for good careers guidance for schools across all of England and in some areas across the rest of the UK. This experience helps your school to reach the following benchmarks:
The essential skills every young person needs to succeed in education and their future career. Find out more at the Skills Builder Partnership. This experience builds the following skills:
Aiming high - the ability to set clear, tangible goals and devise a robust route to achieving them.
Creativity - the use of imagination and the generation of new ideas.
Leadership - supporting, encouraging and motivating others to achieve a shared goal.
Problem solving - the ability to find a solution to a complex situation or challenge.
Staying positive - the ability to use tactics to overcome setbacks and achieve goals.
Teamwork - working cooperatively with others towards achieving a shared goal.
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Secondary
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Secondary
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Secondary
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