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?


For each activity, you will receive a star. You can get a total of 36 stars. You will lose all your stars if you close your browser window.

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 ekstremvær

Bakgrunn ekstremvær

Weather that corresponds to the weather we expect at the time of year.  

Weather that can cause major harm to people and the environment.  Droughts, hurricanes and heatwaves are examples of extreme weather.

Weather that can cause major harm to people and the environment. Droughts, hurricanes and heatwaves are examples of extreme weather.

Extreme weather with large amounts of rain, pollution in the form of litter in  nature and rivers and forests being felled.

Extreme weather such as droughts and flooding. 

Extreme weather such as sandstorms that force people to stay inside  all day.

Extreme weather with large amounts of rain, pollution in the form of litter in nature and rivers and forests being felled.

How are children in Guatemala affected by climate and environmental change?

Extreme weather with either a lot of or very little water. This causes the soil  to become damaged by flooding or droughts. This makes it impossible to grow food.

There is a lot of litter in nature, which causes red pandas to eat  litter.

Extreme weather such as blizzards means that they are unable to attend  school.

Extreme weather with either a lot of or very little water. This causes the soil to become damaged by flooding or droughts. This makes it impossible to grow food.

How are children in Nepal affected by climate change?

Politicians need to act to stop climate and  environmental change.

Do not throw your rubbish away in nature. We must recycle so that things can be  reused. We can also plant more trees.

There is nothing that can be done to stop climate and  environmental change.

Do not throw your rubbish away in nature. We must recycle so that things can be reused. We can also plant more trees.

What do Jenifer, Jakinto, Mariell and Alexander in Guatemala believe we can do to stop climate and environmental change?

They are members of a children’s club working on climate and  environmental change in the area where they live.

They protest against climate and environmental change. 

They write letters to the editor and use social media to  say what they think about climate and environmental change.

They are members of a children’s club working on climate and environmental change in the area where they live. 

What do Chanika and Ganesh in Nepal do to fight climate and environmental change?

They plant trees in areas that have experienced landslides, they ask people to  stop felling trees and they talk to politicians to encourage them to stop felling trees and to secure funding to plant new trees.

They tell other children about climate and environmental change. 

They gather the red pandas in a single area. 

They plant trees in areas that have experienced landslides, they ask people to stop felling trees and they talk to politicians to encourage them to stop felling trees and to secure funding to plant new trees.

How does Chanika and Ganesh’s children’s club work to stop climate and environmental change?