Climate Club Curriculum
The Climate Education curriculum has been developed by CII Tamilnadu Climate Action Panel and Swechha to guide teachers and students.
- Understanding the different development perspectives
- The development model we follow – for whom, by whom, its relevance and sustainability
- Re-examining our definitions of development and of ‘developed cities’
- Understanding the global and the local water situation/crisis
- Sources of water and issues related to water management
- Water pollution
- Water crisis in India
- Water system and usage in school communities
- Use and abuse of water
- Conservation methods
- Understanding waste; establishing what waste is
- Where does it come from?
- Our relation to waste collection and disposal of the same in cities
- Reducing and recycling waste, and
- Designing innovative, creative and sustainable ways of disposing waste
- Understanding air pollution
- Combination of factors promoting pollution
- Steps to reduce air pollution and promote good practices in our community
- Where does our food come from?
- Who grows it?
- How can we be sustainable consumers?
- How can we grow our food?
- What is soil?
- Soil degradation and its causes
- Soil repair and its significance and impact
- Understanding the different sources of energy
- Knowledge of energy and natural resources crisis
- Conservation methods for communities
- What is citizenship?
- How should one become part of and/or lead citizens’ initiatives of change?
- Skills and tools that could prove beneficial
- Ideas for local action at school level and our community at large