ESS Higher Level Extension Lens – Subtopic HL.a Environmental Law – First Teaching 2024

A fully resourced set of teaching materials for ESS Higher Level Lens HL.a – Environmental Law. A HL lens subtopic for the new IB Diploma Environmental Systems and Societies course, first assessment 2026, which is first taught in 2024.

Created by an IB curriculum developer, examiner & workshop facilitator, this HL sub-topic is part of the Higher Level extension lenses of the ESS course.

This unit contains five lessons with PowerPoint lessons and worksheets and can be used both in-person and for online learning, added to your Google Classroom, or opened using Google Slides.

Save yourself time, all resources are ready to click and go! All my resources are informed by over 15 years of IB DP ESS teaching and examiner experience, so you can be sure you are getting a quality resource with everything you need to teach the IB ESS content.

Features:
• Lesson 1 – The role of environmental law
• Lesson 2 – The effectiveness of environmental laws
• Lesson 3 – Environmental laws at local, national, and international level
• Lesson 4 – Environmental laws, application and enforcement
• Lesson 5 – Environmental laws – legal personhood
• Worksheets to support learning tasks
• Clear lesson aims to meet the 2024 syllabus strands (HL)
• Key ESS terminology highlighted
• Engaging classroom activities
• Knowledge review questions
• Home learning tasks
• Starter and plenary activities

The resource is completely developed by me as an author with no use of Artificial Intelligence tools.