Skill: Collective Action

Collective Action

Climate Action Storytelling Toolkit

This toolkit has been designed to help your students find their voices as advocates for the Earth. Students will learn how to translate environmental awareness into compelling narratives that inspire action. Whether they are imagining a hopeful future, fighting for nature restoration or reflecting on the biodiversity in their own backyard, these lessons empower young people to shift from being passive observers to active storytellers for climate action and biodiversity conservation.

What to expect in this toolkit:

  • 3 customisable lesson plans, bite-sized activities and discussion questions to help develop storytelling abilities alongside SDG skills  
    • Storytelling mediums covered in lesson plans: collage art, poetry, film
  • Extension activity for students ages 14+
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Age 14+ - (Upper Secondary/ high school), Ages 8-14 - (Upper Primary/lower secondary/middle school )
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English
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< 1 hour
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Voices of the Earth

This lesson, Voices of the Earth, uses performance poetry to bridge the gap between environmental science and creative writing. By analysing the poem: Hope by Salome Agbaroji students explore how personification (giving nature a human voice) can create an emotional connection that facts and figures often miss. Students will move from being passive listeners to active advocates, craft their own "voice for the voiceless," and perform their work in class.

Collage Art: Hopes for Our Planet

Students explore biodiversity and their hopes for the planet through a nature walk and collage-making. Outside, they collect natural materials; back inside, they combine found objects, prints, and drawings on a heart-shaped canvas to create a personal vision for a thriving 2030.

Learning Guide on Ecosystem Restoration

This module invites learners to explore the urgent need for ecosystem restoration and understand their role in shaping a more sustainable future. It includes a three-part learning journey with relevant background information, video-based contents, interactive visuals, guided research, and systems thinking activities designed to inspire reflection and action.
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Voices of the Earth

This lesson is part of WLL’s Climate Action Storytelling Toolkit.

Voices of the Earth uses performance poetry to bridge the gap between environmental science and creative writing. By analysing the poem: Hope by Salome Agbaroji students explore how personification (giving nature a human voice) can create an emotional connection that facts and figures often miss. Students will move from being passive listeners to active advocates, craft their own “voice for the voiceless,” and perform their work in class.

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Ages 8-14 - (Upper Primary/lower secondary/middle school )
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English
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< 1 hour
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Climate Action Storytelling Toolkit

This toolkit has been designed to help your students find their voices as advocates for the Earth. By exploring three distinct mediums: film, poetry, and collage art, students will learn how to translate environmental awareness into compelling narratives that inspire action.

Wild Futures for Storytelling

This World Wildlife Conservation Day (December 4th), join the World’s Largest Lesson as we bring you a storytelling lesson for nature!

Collage Art: Hopes for Our Planet

Students explore biodiversity and their hopes for the planet through a nature walk and collage-making. Outside, they collect natural materials; back inside, they combine found objects, prints, and drawings on a heart-shaped canvas to create a personal vision for a thriving 2030.
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2025 Global Goals Week Toolkit

The World’s Largest Lesson, in partnership with UNICEF and UNESCO, brings the Sustainable Development Goals to life, with free resources for teachers and children around the world.

This year’s toolkit is packed with 3 ready-to-use, SDG skills resources to help you:

  • Bring the Global Goals into your teaching in new ways
  • Explore timely topics like global trade, supply chains and peace-building
  • Foster peace, empathy, and hope in the classroom

Created in partnership with DP World, a global leader in supply chain solutions, this toolkit helps young people understand the systems that move our world and prepares them with the skills they’ll need for a sustainable future. You can explore more DP World teaching resources on their Global Education Platform.

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Age 14+ - (Upper Secondary/ high school), Ages 8-14 - (Upper Primary/lower secondary/middle school )
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< 1 hour
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SDG 16 in Action: How Peace, Justice, and Institutions Shape Our World

This interactive lesson helps students explore the links between peace, justice, strong institutions, and democracy. Through discussion, role-play, and creative projects, learners examine how fairness, trust, and empathy strengthen communities from schools to the global stage. Students investigate what happens when these elements break down, and develop ideas for restoring them. The session includes a deeper dive into peacebuilding, highlighting how creativity and collaboration can resolve conflicts and inspire hope.

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Age 14+ - (Upper Secondary/ high school), Ages 8-14 - (Upper Primary/lower secondary/middle school )
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< 1 hour
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Planet Protectors Toolkit Guide

Welcome to the Planet Protectors Toolkit Guide!

This guide is your one-stop shop for WLL’s curated climate action and sustainability resources, designed to help you easily integrate sustainability learning into your learning environment. It covers five engaging sections, each focused on developing key sustainability competencies:

  • Data Explorer: Data Explorers & Data Explorers Unplugged

  • Nature Guardian: Climate Change Dodgeball

  • Waste Warrior: Food Heroes

  • Eco Inventor: Sustainability Hour, do your :bit

  • Visionary Artist: Visions of Tomorrow, Voices of Future Generations

With bite-sized activities, discussion spaces, and classroom-ready slides, this guide empowers you to create a dynamic, customisable learning experience tailored to your students’ needs.

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Ages 8-14 - (Upper Primary/lower secondary/middle school )
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1-3 hours
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Food Heroes! (AIESEC)

Food Heroes is an engaging lesson that helps students understand Sustainable Development Goal 12 and why responsible consumption matters. They’ll explore the issue of food waste, learn about target 12.3, and discover practical ways to eat more sustainably and protect our planet.

SDG skills covered:

  • Connection to Nature: Feel part of the natural world and respect its needs to help restore and protect ecosystems.

  • Collective Action: Work together with others, using empathy, storytelling, and shared purpose to create meaningful change.

  • Individual Action: Take personal responsibility for sustainability by building healthy habits, resilience, and a commitment to lifelong learning.

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Ages 8-14 - (Upper Primary/lower secondary/middle school )
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1-3 hours
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Climate Change Dodgeball (Transform Our World)

Climate Change Dodgeball, created by our partner Transform Our World, is a fast-paced, physical game that helps students visualise how greenhouse gases trap heat in the Earth’s atmosphere. Acting as the Earth, the Sun, and greenhouse gases, students use bean bags to model the greenhouse effect and explore how increasing emissions make it harder for our planet to stay cool. It’s an active and memorable way to consolidate learning about climate change, teamwork, and the importance of taking action to protect our planet.

SDG skills covered:

  • Understanding Planetary Boundaries: Recognise how Earth’s life support systems work together and how human activity can push them beyond safe limits.

  • Collective Action: Work together with others, using empathy, storytelling, and shared purpose to create meaningful change.

  • Individual Action: Take personal responsibility for sustainability by building healthy habits, resilience, and a commitment to lifelong learning.

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Ages 8-14 - (Upper Primary/lower secondary/middle school )
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1-3 hours
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