This six-lesson program, developed with wellbeing experts and educators, builds students emotional literacy, resilience and agency. Each themed lesson includes videos, prompts, posters and educator scripts to spark discussion, support reflection and guide students in exploring emotions and positive futures.
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Video and discussion (20 minutes)
Show the students the lesson video and facilitate a guided discussion.
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Group visioning (20 minutes)
Support students to work together to imagine helpful, positive futures in response to climate change, building a shared sense of possibility, agency, and collective action.
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Stories of climate action (20 minutes)
Facilitate students to explore inspirational stories of people and communities taking climate action, helping them see how emotions can lead to agency, hope and meaningful change.
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First Nations perspective and contemplation (20 minutes)
Guide an exploration of First Nations perspectives on caring for Country.
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Reflection (10 minutes)
Guide a reflective activity to consolidate learning and personal insights.
By the end of the lesson, students will be able to:
Identify examples of positive, regenerative climate action and role models, and recognise how hopeful narratives and future-focused visions can shape feelings, motivation and a sense of possibility.
Understand how imagination, creativity and collective visioning can expand perceived options for climate action, strengthen agency, and support optimism and active hope, even within the realities and constraints of climate change.
Reflect on the experience of collaboratively creating a positive future vision, including how it affects feelings of empowerment, connection, and self-belief, and consider how these insights can inform personal and collective climate action moving forward.
A Climate of Change lesson plans
Explore the 90‑minute lesson plans designed to support learning and action:
How can staying aware, connected, and active help us respond to climate change while supporting our own and others’ wellbeing?
How can we thrive, flourish, be well and happy among all the social, economic, and environmental impacts of climate change?
How can we recognise and work with climate-related emotions in ways that support wellbeing and lead to positive action?
Big climate feelings? Help students face them.
When the scale of climate change feels overwhelming, how can we find our place, focus our efforts, and take action that aligns with our values, strengths and capacity?
How can connecting with nature support our wellbeing, and how can we practise reciprocity with Country and all living beings, even when access to natural places is limited?