Life Based Learning ™
Delivering subject content through nine life themes
Teaching about the climate emergency
Such a powerful opinion piece in Tuesday’s Education Guardian from the paper’s environment correspondent, Fiona Harvey, about the failure of the current national curriculum adequately to address the climate crisis and sustainability more generally:
But in England, climate change barely figures on the national curriculum, and campaigners claim that schools are not required to teach it directly.
Fiona Harvey, The Guardian, 11 February 2020 (p35 of the print edition)
LBL puts our relationship with the planet at the heart of what children need to learn. World is one of LBL’s three life areas, covering Plant Life, Animal Life and Physical World.
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