What is the c&n Summit?
What is this Resource -
The C&N Summit is a library of free online workshops that provide an inspiring space for whole school conversations on the topic of climate change and biodiversity.
The ISSN teachers have designed a suite of effective videos on a variety of topics featuring expert speakers, teacher notes, student activities and PowerPoint that are FREE for you to easily pick up and use.
In celebration of this year’s Climate and Nature Summit, we’ve designed a special series of ‘Can you believe it?’ workshops for secondary school. Click HERE to find out more.
You can access previous year’s Climate and Nature Summit sessions in our Global Citizen and Environmental Education Booklets for Primary Schools HERE and Secondary Schools HERE.
how can you get involved?
Who is this Resource for.
Sustainability Coordinators. Host a Climate and Nature Summit Day or Week in your school to foster conversations and inspire action or use this year’s summit workshops or tailor your own using present and past workshops
Junior Cycle Teachers & Leaving Certificate teachers - The topics of these workshops include mis and disinformation, biodiversity, psychology and much more. Whatever you are teaching there is something here for you to stimulate interesting discussions, foster debate and critical thinking. All of these workshops will help to develop the junior cycle key skills
CSPE Teachers. Workshops to supplement Strand II Global Citizenship: sustainability and effecting global change.
Religion teachers . Workshops to help students understand their role as stewards of the Earth.
TY Teachers / Wellbeing Teachers . Use these workshops to develop a module on Biodiversity, Climate Change, or sustainability and choose an action project that everyone can get behind.
Primary teachers. Use these workshops to host a mini Climate and Nature Summit in your own class or school. Use individual workshops as standalone lessons or use a number of them to support a weekly or fortnightly unit of work.
WHY TAKE PART?
The climate and ecological emergency is a fast-changing landscape. It’s hard to keep up! The summit will get you and your students up to speed while also covering fascinating topics delivered by industry experts.
This year’s theme for secondary schools is Can You Believe It? It plays on two meanings: wonder and doubt. In the Summit this year we invite students to be amazed by nature and inspired by human potential. But we also want you to question what (and who) we can trust in a world full of misinformation. It’s about believing in the future, and asking tough questions along the way.
So we have four core talks to cover four key themes: Knowledge, Critique, Action and Cities.
