What you will explore:
- What is climate and environmental change?
- What climate and environmental rights do children and young people have?
- How does the climate affect our way of living and how does our way of living affect the climate?
- What is extreme weather?
- How does the world work with climate and environment issues?
- What would you say to politicians who work with climate and environment issues?


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Welcome to The Magic Classroom on climate and the environment

Welcome

Intro movie

FACT OR FICTION: What do you know about the climate and environment?

FILM: What is climate and environmental change?

GAME: Causes of climate change

FILM: How does the world work with climate and environment issues?

GAME: Solutions to the causes of climate change

QUIZ: What have you learned about climate and environmental change?

FACT OR FICTION: What do you know about children’s climate and environmental rights?

FILM: What rights do children and young people have when it comes to climate and environmental issues?

QUOTES: How do children  and young people notice climate and environmental changes?

FILM: Children’s right to express themselves

GAME: How can children have an influence?

QUIZ: What have you learned about children’s  climate and environmental rights?

FACT OR FICTION: What do you know about climate and way of life?

TITLE: FILM: Climate and environmental changes in Norway

FILM: Climate and environmental changes in Somalia

MAP: Climate changes in the world

QUIZ: What have you learned about climate and  way of life?

FACT OR FICTION: What do you know about extreme weather?

FILM: Extreme weather in Guatemala

GAME: Extreme weather has varying impacts

FILM: Extreme weather in Nepal

QUIZ: What have you learned about extreme weather?

FACT OR FICTION: What do you know about how the  world works on the climate and environment?

FILM: Meet the Children’s Climate Panel

PHOTOS: Join the UN Climate Summit

QUOTES: What do we need to do in the future?

QUIZ: What have you learned about how the world works for the climate and environment?

Have Your Say

Quiz barns klima- og miljørettigheter

Bakgrunn barns klima- og miljørettigheter

To encourage children and young people to join organisations and clubs.

To protect children and young people under the age of 18.

To make sure that parents listen to children. 

What is the most important purpose of the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child?

Those who rule in the country and those who rule where children live. We call these the authorities. 

Schools and the teachers at the schools children attend. 

Police in the countries where children live. 

Those who rule in the country and those who rule where children live. We call these the authorities.

Who is responsible for ensuring that children are protected by the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child?

The right to attend school and get an education and the right to feel safe. 

The right to express yourself and be heard.

The right to believe and think what she wants.

The right to attend school and get an education and the right to feel safe.

Paola and her family were forced to flee when a cyclone caused flooding where they lived. Which of Paola’s rights were threatened when this happened?

The right to think and believe what you want and the right to participate in organisations and gatherings.

The right to your own identity and the right to express your opinions and be heard.

The right to attend school and get an education and the right to a future.

Which of the following rights could be particularly threatened by climate and environmental change?

What right do many children and young people exercise during school strikes for the climate?

Children and young people cannot influence  climate and environmental issues.

Children and young people do not need to have opinions about the climate and environment before they become  adults.

Children and young people can access and spread information  and knowledge. Children can express themselves and be heard in issues that affect them.

Children and young people can access and spread information and knowledge. Children can express themselves and be heard in issues that affect them.

How can children and young people influence climate and environmental issues?