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It's about young people looking at climate change while working and learning together. Children from more than 50 schools and groups in 11 countries plus more than 50 north west schools are working and learning together over one academic year. They are sharing thoughts and ideas on climate change, and are working to develop new creative projects on the theme.
Students are learning about and taking action on key issues:
Pupils from Shorefields in a video link to Sierra Leone
Following the success of the award-winning Make the Link, Break the Chain anti-slavery project, National Museums Liverpool and Plan UK are again working together in an international school twinning project that links over 3,000 pupils in 12 countries (El Salvador, Ecuador, Brazil, Haiti, Sierra Leone, Kenya, Senegal, Malawi, Philippines, Bangladesh, Indonesia and UK). The theme this time is climate change.
By facilitating international communication between young people, we hope to foster an awareness of the need for global action on climate change. Students will learn and take action on key issues, as identified by the United Nations' Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change.
Online user interface
Until July 2009 the participating children worked together through a multi-lingual online resource (shown here) where they are creating their own profile pages, chatting in forums, posting their thoughts on a blog, uploading images and video etc. Activity is mainly classroom based and focuses on the issue of climate change, the causes, its repercussions and possible solutions. There is also an online space for teachers to access lesson plans, chat about the progress of their pupils' projects, swap ideas and share resources.
The online activity is the inspiration for creative offline projects in each participating country, which it is hoped will lead to positive local action to address climate change.
The project culminates in an online presentation of the work produced and an exhibition at National Museums Liverpool. The work will also be displayed at the United Nations Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen in 2009 (COP15, formerly the Kyoto conference) as part of the Children in a Changing Climate display.
Two newsletters have more on the project and the young people's activities:
The project kicked off with a video conference in July 2008 (shown above), linking pupils from Shorefields Technology College in Liverpool and two schools from Sierra Leone. The students talked about their hopes, hobbies and thoughts on climate change.