Climate Craft Mission Map

Climate Craft Mission Map

Mission 1: All aboard the climate craft
Learn about where you live

Mission 2: Weather watch
look-out
Learn what weather is

Mission 14: Share your climate story
Sharing step!
Mission 13: Call for climate
action
Sharing step!
Mission 12: Be climate ready
Choose a climate action to take forward

Mission 3: Climate clothes
dress-up
Learn what climate is
Mission 4: Climate change
colour-in
Learn that the climate is changing
Mission 5: Weather hazard
link-up
Learn how climate change effects weather

Mission 11: Climate action
storytime Explore actions from
around the world
Mission 10: Global goal, greener world
Learn about global action

Mission 9: Children's rights
stand-up
Learn about your
rights and climate
change

Mission 6: Global impacts
mind-map
Learn how climate change impacts people
Mission 7: Your home spider-
web-it
Learn that people, places and things are connected

Mission 8: Nature helps, nature-hunt
Learn how nature helps us
deal with climate change

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Learning Step Action Step Sharing Step

Missions: You will start with Learning Steps Action Steps and follow the mission map to track your climate explorer journey.

Sharing Steps

Calling all climate explorers
Your Task: Complete different missions to learn more about our world, take action and share ideas
You’ll make a ‘climate craft’ to travel in. It can take you to the future, the past, and all around the world. Using ‘weather wishes’ you can transform to see things through the eyes of others.

Construct your climate craft
Reuse materials to construct your climate craft. The climate craft is powered by energy from the sun, wind and water - can you show this? It also uses a little bit of magic! - Choose your favourite magical ingredient from nature to make weather wishes.

Your journey
Use the map to plan your climate craft journey. When you complete a mission, colour in the sun, wind or water pictures to power up your climate craft and move to the next mission.
Follow the mission map to track your climate explorer journey and check the top of each card to see the mission description

Learn about where you live
Mission 1: All aboard the climate craft
In your upcoming missions you will travel in your climate craft to visit children around the world. You will learn about the places they live and share stories.
1. Let’s start the journey by thinking about where you live
• Can you describe what your home looks like to someone else?
• Are there other houses or buildings nearby? • Is there nature near your home? • Who lives or works near where you live? • What is your favourite place in the area you live?
Can you give three reasons why?
Share your answers with friends and family. Do they answer the same or differently?
2. Look into the future
Your first mission is to travel 30 years into the future and report back to other children on what you saw
Can you work out what year it will be in 30 years time?
Imagine you could get into your climate craft and travel 30 years into the future. Set your dial for
that year and press GO...
You’ve arrived! Imagine what the place you live now looks like 30 years in the future. What might have changed?
Draw a picture of how you imagine the place you live in 30 years. Share your picture with someone else. Did they imagine something different?
Well done, you’ve completed Mission 1. Keep your picture – you’ll need it for your final mission – and power up your climate craft on the mission map by colouring
the sun energy and move to Mission 2.

Learn what weather is
Mission 2: Weather watch look-out
1. Make your weather watch
Fold a piece of paper into 6 rectangles. Ask an adult to help if you need. Write ‘weather watch’ and where you live across the top. Write ‘morning’, ‘midday’ ‘afternoon’ in the rectangles.

Weather can be sunny, cloudy, rainy, warm, cold, windy, snowy...
Weather is what’s happening outside, in the ‘atmosphere’, at a particular place and time.

2. Park your climate craft by a window and look out
What is the weather like? Is it morning, midday or afternoon? Draw the weather in the correct box for day 1. You’ve made your first weather window! Repeat this for the rest of today and tomorrow
to fill in the windows.
Look at your weather watch. Are all the pictures the same or different? What do you think we mean by ‘weather’?
Want to continue weather watching? Make some new weather windows and keep going.
Did you know...
Some weather records from around the world are hundreds of years long!
Why do people record the weather? Why is knowing what the weather is like important?
3. Do you know any songs about weather?
Can you make one up for your weather watch?

Well done you’ve completed Mission 2. Power up your climate craft on the mission map by colouring the wind energy and move to Mission 3.

Learn what climate is
Mission 3: Climate clothes dress-up
1. Let’s go outside
Imagine it’s a hot day. Dress up in what you might wear or take out. Ask someone to guess what time of year you are ready for.
Now imagine it’s cold. Dress up in what you might wear or take out Ask someone to guess what time of year you are ready for.
What if it was rainy? Dress up in what you might wear or take out. Ask someone to guess what time of year you are ready for.
Did they guess correctly? What do the clothes you wear say about the weather you normally experience?

Climate is what the weather is normally like, or the average over a long period of time - 30 years or more in a particular place, country, or region. Climate influences what we expect the weather to be like at different times of the year.

2. Now jump in your climate craft you’re off on an adventure around the world!
First stop is the Caribbean.
What clothes do you need to pack?
What do you think the climate (normal
weather) is like in the Caribbean?

Second stop is the Arctic. What clothes do you need to pack? What do you think the climate (normal
weather) is like in the Arctic?

It’s your choice where to go next... What do you think the climate (normal weather) is like there?

Well done you’ve completed Mission 3. Power up your climate craft on the mission map by colouring the water energy and move to Mission 4.

Learn that the climate is changing

Mission 4: Climate change colour-in

1. Let’s go back in time on your climate craft
Can you think of someone who has lived in your area for 30 years? Maybe your grandparents, parents, guardians, or neighbours?
Call, message, visit or write them a letter explaining what you’ve learnt about climate (normal weather) and ask:

Top scientists agree that the ‘normal weather’ or the ‘climate’ is changing across the world. People across the world are also noticing these changes in their normal weather over time.

“Was the climate different 30 years ago where you live?” “If the climate has changed, has it changed the way you live?”

2. What is climate change?

The Earth gets all its energy from the sun. About half of this energy hits the ground, and some bounces back
into space.

Some of the energy gets trapped by greenhouse gases in the air around us. They help keep the world at the right temperature for people, plants and animals to live.

Over the last 200 years, people’s activities have increased the amount of greenhouse gases in the air.

More greenhouse gases mean more energy is trapped in the air, which causes the world to warm up. We call this global warming.

A warmer world effects our weather systems over time. This causes our normal weather or climate to change across the world. We call this climate change.

Climate change is also causing extreme weather events to be bigger or to happen more often across the world.

Colour the pictures above or draw your own to learn about the causes of climate change.
Can you use the pictures to explain the causes of climate change to someone else? Discuss together why climate change is a challenge.

Well done, you’ve completed Mission 4. Power up your climate craft on the mission map by colouring the sun energy and move on to Mission 5.

Learn how climate change affects extreme weather and hazards
Mission 5: Weather hazard link-up
1. Let’s see how climate, weather, and hazards link
Look at the pictures of weather in the square boxes. Look at the pictures of hazards from around the world in the circles. Too much or too little of a type of weather or ‘extreme weather’, can cause hazards.
Can you link the extreme weather to the hazards it causes? • Link with a thick line if it the hazard is caused by too much rain, wind or sun • Link with a dotted line if the hazard is caused by too little rain, wind or sun.

Hazards
Wildfires

Diseases (insect & water-borne)

Rain

Weather

Climate Change

Sun

Wind

Storms & storm surge
Changes in rainfall pattern

Landslides
Melting ice & sea-level rise

Heatstroke

Top scientists agree that climate change is causing extreme weather events to become bigger and happen more often around the world. Extreme weather can lead to hazards that impact people.

Flooding

Water shortage

Drought & Desertification

2. Discuss with someone else which hazards happen where you live?
Talk about climate change making extreme weather events bigger and
happen more often.
How might this impact people around the world? What about where you live?

Well done you’ve completed Mission 5. Power up your climate craft on the mission map by colouring the water energy and move to Mission 6.

Learn how climate change impacts people

Mission 6: Global impacts mind-map
1. You’re off to meet people around the world. How might climate change impact them?

Emma, Marshall Islands
Hello. My name is Emma. I live in a town near the coast. I like playing basketball. I am at college and study science as I want to help prepare for sea level rise. There is a big storm, buildings are destroyed and roads are blocked. How might this impact Emma?
Maria, Honduras
Hola. My name is Maria. I am pregnant with my third child. We live in the city. It is hot and the rains are getting heavier causing floods. Mosquitos carry diseases. They like heat and flood water. How might this impact Maria?

Jean, France
Bonjour. My name is Jean. I’m 75 and live on my own in the city. I enjoy being outside and gardening, but my favourite thing is when my grandchildren visit! There is a heatwave – the hottest ever in France.
How might this impact Jean?
Priya, India
Namaste. My name is Priya. I get up early everyday to fetch water from the well for my family. Then I join my brother to walk to school. I love learning. One day I hope to be a doctor. It hasn’t rained for 3 months. There is severe water shortage. It is necessary to walk further to find water. How might this impact Priya?
Ahmed, Tanzania
Salam aleikum. My name is Ahmed. I am a farmer and live with my family. I grow maize and beans to eat and cashew nuts to sell. We rely on a good harvest. Rainfall patterns are changing. This affects the growing season for crops. How might this impact Ahmed?

Climate change and extreme weather impact people around the world in different ways.
2. Can you think of any other ways climate change may impact different people differently? Why might it impact them differently?

Well done you’ve completed Mission 6. Power up your climate craft on the mission map by colouring the wind energy to move to Mission 7.

Learn that people, places, and things are connected
Mission 7: Your home, spiderweb it!
1. Let’s make a map - you can draw, craft, paint, model – be creative!
Imagine you are on a climate craft journey where you live, or go for a walk.
Add ‘places’ to your map - Think about different places where you live. Why are they important?
Add ‘people’ to your map - Think about the jobs people do where you live. Why are they important?
Add ‘things’ to your map - Think about different things where you live. Why are they important?
People, places, and things are connected and depend on each other. This is important when we think about the impact of climate change and extreme weather. If one place is impacted this may impact another place, or person, or thing. If this has further impacts this can lead to a big problem.
2. Spiderweb it!
Can you see connections between people, places and things? Draw lines to connect them on your map and create a giant spiderweb!
3. Imagine there is extreme weather - draw stars next to people places
and things at risk. Follow the spiderweb lines to see if other people, places or things might be impacted. What could you change to be better prepared?
Well done you’ve completed Mission 7. Power up your climate craft on the mission map by colouring in the water energy and move to Mission 8.

Learn how nature helps us deal with climate change

Mission 8: Nature helps, nature-hunt
1. What do you think about when we say ‘nature’?
It is important to look after nature as it helps us in lots of different ways and it can help us be ready for climate change.

1. Using natural things
Think about where the things around you come from. What materials are they made of? Plants give us fruit,
vegetables and medicines, animals give us food, trees give us wood.

2. Enjoying natural places
Lots of people enjoy natural places.
What do you do for fun in natural places?
Playing outdoor games with friends, picnics with family, walking, swimming
in rivers.

4. Keeping alive natural things and places
Nature has ways to keep all the other natural things and places alive. How do you think this helps us? Did you know… • Sunlight is used by plants
to make their own food, so that they can grow
• Dead natural materials are broken down by bacteria and turned into soil to support new life.

3. Looking after natural things and places
Nature can help look after itself. How do you think this helps us?
Did you know… • Trees can help clean the air and
water. Trees can also help to control water to reduce the risk of flooding and landslides • Bees are some of the most important animals in the world. They help pollinate flowers, fruits and vegetables. This means bees help other plants grow. • Plants can help protect land and coasts from storms and sea level rise.

2. Nature hunt

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Lead a nature hunt where you live. Search outside or around your home.

On pieces of paper write ‘Using’, ‘Enjoying’, ‘Looking after’ and ‘Keeping’.

• 10 minutes to find as many examples as you can for each way nature helps us • Be creative! A leaf could be a tree or a plant. A cup of water could be a lake river

or sea. Maybe some fruits or vegetables. A photograph of you outside

Explain your examples to someone. How many did you get?

Take a photo and keep it for later.

3. Can some of the ways nature helps us, also help us deal with climate change and extreme weather?
Can you think of ways we can help look after nature?

Well done you’ve completed Mission 8. Power up your climate craft on the mission map by colouring in the sun energy and move to Mission 9.