To celebrate Green Schools Revolution Week we’ve produced these activity cards which you can use to bring green issues to life throughout the year. They focus on five themes: Waste, Energy and Science, Fairtrade and Co-operation, Biodiversity, and Healthy Living. So, no matter what your role in school or particular interest, we hope there’ll be something to help inspire your class. They’re packed full of quick and engaging activities which you can use to kick off lessons or extend into one-off activities.

This lesson and its follow-up activity helps children understand the importance of ‘homes’ for wild creatures and shows them how to be Habitat Heroes, creating different environments to encourage wildlife.

Minibeasts are small creatures that don’t have a backbone – snails, spiders, beetles, slugs, worms, ants, butterflies and more. They are an important part of any garden, are great pollinators and water purifiers, and kids love them! This activity sheet shows you how to build a fantastic minibeast motel to encourage them to take up residence safely in your school grounds.

Wind turbines are a valuable source of renewable energy and are non-polluting. A wind turbine uses large blades to catch the wind, which forces the blades to rotate. This rotation drives the generator, which sits within the nacelle, and converts the energy of the wind into electricity.

Introduction to wildlife and habitats be delivered in an assembly or lesson. With presenter notes under each slide for ideas.

Through case studies, pictures, videos and games, these engaging resources bring the Fairtrade story to life and help your pupils to explore the difference it can make to farmers and workers in developing countries. • How to use the story sort pupil activity • How to present a Fairtrade play or assembly • Holding a Fairtrade coffee morning or tea party for children and parents • Help pupils to be enterprising as they help with the Fairtrade assembly, coffee morning or tea party • Curriculum links Plus pupil worksheets and recipe cards.

A variety of fact sheets, guides to building shelters for wildlife in the school garden, and posters.

In this Fair Enterprise challenge students work together to create a marketing campaign to get more of their peers to choose Fairtrade products. Working co-operatively in small teams, students explore what makes them choose one product over another, think of messages and creative ideas that will keep Fairtrade in peoples’ minds when they make these choices, and can use a range of media to spread the word about Fairtrade across your school. You can deliver the challenge through a suspended timetable or across four or five sessions and adapt it to suit the time and resources you have.

In this lesson, your pupils will learn how honey bees are of crucial importance to the well-being of our planet. They’ll investigate why bee numbers are declining, learn how honey is made and what they can do to protect and encourage these fascinating insects!

In this lesson, your pupils will think about how a pizza is made and learn where all the different ingredients come from. They’ll also learn how to ‘cheat a margherita’ using pitta bread or make a pizza from scratch using homemade dough and fresh ingredients from as near to home as possible.

Your pupils can get involved in enterprising activities including planning and running their own co-operative Fairtrade shop and holding a Fairtrade coffee morning for parents. Through case studies, pictures, videos, games and quizzes, these engaging resources bring the Fairtrade story to life and help your pupils to explore the difference it can make to farmers and workers in developing countries.

Before The Co-operative began construction of its new head office, archaeologists investigated the site because they knew it had been at the centre of the early stages of the industrial revolution. What they found contrasted greatly with the comfortable, efficient building that soon began to take shape on the site! This lesson helps pupils to compare life in a Victorian school with life in your school today (even if you are in a Victorian building), and think about how your school could be refurbished with modern, sustainable materials to offer the building a new lease of life.

This lesson gives your pupils insight into the processes water goes through before it reaches our taps. They’ll be experimenting with different methods of purifying water and learning about how people in developing countries get their water.

Do the maths: Before you can start saving energy in school, you need to find out how much you actually use. This comprehensive energy audit will help you do the calculations.

In this lesson, your pupils will be finding out all about the fruits and vegetables that are grown here in the UK and learning when they’re ready for harvesting and eating! They’ll come to understand seasonality and learn how to cook dishes using seasonal produce.

This lesson and its follow-up activity helps children understand the importance of ‘homes’ for wild creatures and shows them how to be Habitat Heroes, creating different environments to encourage wildlife.

Crafts are cool, it’s official! So why not encourage your students to unlock their entrepreneurial talents and get them to set up a craft market to raise funds for their favourite charity. The students will develop their team working, organisational, monetary and employment skills as well as the skills involved in making and creating their craft projects.

In this lesson, we will look at how we use water, how we can harvest and use rainwater, and how we can each do our bit to save water. Your pupils will be able to review their understanding of where our drinking water comes from and how climate change makes it important to save our precious water.

In this lesson, your students will be learning all about the pH scale and how to use it to test the purity of water samples. They’ll also be investigating the causes of water pollution and debating what can be done about it.

This lesson and its follow-up activity helps children understand the importance of ‘homes’ for wild creatures and shows them how to be Habitat Heroes, creating different environments to encourage wildlife.

In this Fair Enterprise challenge students work together to plan and operate a school shop selling Fairtrade food products, to raise money that can be split between the school and communities in the developing world. Working co-operatively in small teams, students plan a range of stock to sell, which can be any combination of bought-in Fairtrade products and their own snacks made from ingredients that include Fairtrade products like cocoa, bananas, and blueberries.