Let's Act! Campaign concludes
While we will all increasingly be facing the consequences of climate change, it is today's young people that will face the worst effects of climate change and environmental degradation at all levels. They need not be passive victims in this global challenge, as we have observed when millions of students participate in the #FridaysForFuture movement that began in 2018. But action must be accompanied by adequate knowledge and understanding to have long-lasting effects.
The Let's Act! SDG project has delivered an engaging Learning Platform focusing on key topics related to "Preserving the Planet" and a series of teacher training tools. It consists of five lessons and associated subtopics that strive to give a first holistic understanding regarding how and why we have landed in this climate crisis and what can and must be done to guide our next steps to ensure prosperity and equality for all as well as a teacher manual, ICT user video's, national curriculum mapping and a best practice section.
The Let's Act! project targets students aged 12-16 and their teachers, and provides them with the tools and instruments needed to engage in the complexity of some critical global issues in a fun and engaging manner. It also allows the students to take agency around their learning while emphasising the importance of scientific enquiry. As such, the project strives to make a modest contribution to help students and teachers engage and take action concerning climate change and discover how we can all help protect our planet from future harm.
Over the past year WAME and FAEM have supported a LET'S ACT! CAMPAIGN aiming to raise awareness about some of the key topics that are tackled as part of the Let's Act project and demonstrate how the Let's Act didactic material could be used to address these topics in the classroom with 12-16 year olds.
The LET'S ACT! CAMPAIGN has included:
Official launch event of the LET'S ACT! SDG Project "Protecting the Planet": 19th May 2022 - Presenting the Let's Act! project objectives to teachers
DePlastic Exhibition: 20th Sept - 20th Oct 2022 - focusing on how we can all help reduce plastic consumption
energEtica Exhibition: 28th Oct - 20 Dec 2022 - focusing energy access in the Global South and energy poverty in the EU
ASviS Festival Del Sviluppo Sostenibile 2023: 10th May - Present the launch of the Let's Act platform with a dedicated online session
FAEM Annual Presentation of Education Activities to Teachers: 23rd May - Presenting the Let's Act! Platform and functionality to teachers
All of the LET's ACT! CAMPAIGN EVENTS have taken place in person at the Fondazione AEM's educational centre "Casa dell’Energia e dell’Ambiente" located in Milan except for the ASviS event which took place online.
If you would like to know more about the Let's Act! SDG Learning Platform and associated teacher trainign material please go to the project website: http://letsact.education/#/
For further information regarding the project please write to Pia at: pia.alessi@eui.eu