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EYFS activities - Education for Sustainability: Hot topic

The environmental crisis is a problem that is going to affect many generations to come. Dr Diane Boyd considers the Sustainable Development Goal for climate action

Taking urgent action to combat climate change and its impacts is the theme of SDG 13, and education has a place in helping children to raise awareness and understand the issues that are impacting their world.

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Birth To 5 Matters (2021)

highlights the sector’s ‘responsibility towards UNESCO Education for Sustainable Development’.

Nursery World, November 2021: ‘A Special Report on Being Sustainable.’

Characteristics of Effective Learning, EYFS (2021):

Extension activities

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Development Matters (2021)

‘Understand the effect of changing seasons on the natural world around them.’ Highlight in particular ‘seasonal features’.

Extension activities

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Birth To 5 Matters (2021). Understanding the World ‘Share stories related to pollution, climate change, habitat erosion.’

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