Secondary workshops
‘can you believe it?’ series
In celebration of this year’s Climate and Nature Summit, we’ve designed a special series of Can you Believe It? workshops. These sessions offer a comprehensive overview of key topics such as climate change, mis-and disinformation, climate psychology and biodiversity. Each workshop is tailored to help you take meaningful action within your schools.
WHAT TO EXPECT:
ENGAGING WORKSHOPS: 4 workshops in total - Two new workshops with fresh content, expert guest speakers, and engaging activities and two returning workshops.
INTERACTIVE LEARNING : Each session comes with worksheets and activities for your class.
ACTION-ORIENTATED: Learn practical steps you can implement to make a difference in your school.
HOW IT WORKS:
CHOOSE one of the 4 workshops below.
DOWNLOAD the teacher resources, student activity sheet, slides and walking debate questions
CLICK play and enjoy
COME BACK EACH DAY to try another workshop.
FEEDBACK- Don’t forget to let us know how your class found the workshops.
This year’s theme for secondary schools is Can You Believe It? It plays on two meanings: wonder and doubt. In the Summit this year we invite students to be amazed by nature and inspired by human potential. But we also want you to question what (and who) we can trust in a world full of misinformation. It’s about believing in the future, and asking tough questions along the way.
So we have four core talks to cover four key themes: Knowledge, Critique, Action and Nature.
Workshop Description. This session helps us consider KNOWLEDGE: Can You Believe It? – Disinformation, Misinformation, and What’s Real Anymore?
This is a brand new talk – delivered by Alex Whyatt from GAP. In an age of fake news, AI and conspiracy theories, this talk helps students navigate information chaos, understand how climate disinformation spreads, and develop tools to assess credibility and build media resilience.
RESOURCES FOR THIS SESSION: Presentation, Worksheet, Walking Debate, Follow-On Task, Feedback
Workshop Description. This session helps us to CRITIQUE: Can You Believe It? – The House That Modernity Built. This is also a brand new talk by Susie & Charlotte from STAND
In this critical workshop they draw on the work of Vanessa Andreotti, examining systems of colonialism, capitalism, and complicity.
They deliver it through a creative, zine-making format.
This session supports students in exploring deep questions of identity, responsibility, and transformation
RESOURCES FOR THIS SESSION: PowerPoint, Teacher Resources, Feedback
Workshop Description. This session helps us reflect on ACTION: Can You Believe It? – Why Are We All Weirdos?
This is a returning talk from the 2022 Climate and Nature Summit where we hear the really engaging conversation between Patrick Kirwan and psychologist Eoin Galavan.
It delves into the contradictions of human behaviour - why we understand the urgency of climate action, yet often struggle to act. It explores the psychological barriers that get in the way, and how we might move past them.
RESOURCES FOR THIS SESSION: Worksheet, Walking Debate, Feedback
OTHER RESOURCES: Read more about the PSI SIG ACEE group. Clover Hogan talks about how to rewrite your climate story
Good News Story, RTE Climate Heroes The Bakers
TAKE ACTION:
Join the 5 Minutes of Sustainability Initiative for Schools
Open up a climate café in your school
Workshop Description. This talk examines NATURE: Can You Believe It? The Amazon isn’t the only rainforest
This is also a returning talk from the 2022 Climate and Nature Summit delivered by Patrick Kirwan and Eoghan Dalton
This session builds our understanding of local nature by exploring Ireland’s own temperate rainforests. This talk provokes wonder, a love and appreciation of nature that underpins our desire to restore it. Did you and your students know that Ireland is home to its own rainforest? Eoghan Daltun, a farmer on the Beara peninsula, Co. Cork is doing a fantastic job of conserving a native Atlantic temperate rainforest. Eoghan helps us to understand what makes a rainforest, the impact of invasive species, and why we should use the word ‘plantation’ instead of forest when we talk about monocultures of Sitka Spruce.
RESOURCES FOR THIS SESSION: Worksheet, Walking Debate, Feedback
TAKE CLIMATE ACTION:
Take part in our Plant a Planet Campaign. Encourage students to plant native trees in their own gardens at home. All the resources you need to set this up can be found here.
Get Bitesize Biodiversity into your school, let’s learn together.
