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.

Activities, Lesson Plan

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

English

1-3 hours

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Related Goals

do your :bit (Micro:bit Educational Foundation)

do your :bit brings together the BBC micro:bit and the UN’s Global Goals to provide inspiring activities for your classroom or club and an exciting digital challenge for you to run. Use the resources on this page to introduce the Global Goals, have fun with the micro:bit and develop world-changing ideas and solutions using technology.

SDG skills covered

Valuing Sustainability: Understand and reflect on how your personal values influence your impact on sustainability and be open to challenging them.
Circular Design Thinking: Design solutions that reduce waste and reuse resources by thinking creatively and working together with others.
Exploratory Thinking: Tackle sustainability challenges by thinking holistically, creatively, and across different perspectives

Activities

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

English

1-3 hours

Check out the website here!

Visions of Tomorrow: Creating Films for a Sustainable Future (Open Planet)

In collaboration with Open Planet, this activity empowers students to create a 1-minute film envisioning the future they want to see. Using Open Planet’s free, open-source library of over 13,000 cinematic clips, students will explore climate change, nature, and solutions, crafting compelling stories that raise awareness about environmental issues.

SDG skills covered:

Futures Literacy: Imagine better futures and figure out the steps needed to make them a reality.
Exploratory Thinking: Tackle sustainability challenges by thinking holistically, creatively, and across different perspectives.

Lesson Plan

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

English

1-3 hours

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Voices of Future Generations: A Storytelling Journey for Change (VOFG)

In collaboration with Voices of Future Generations, this resource introduces students to short stories focused on sustainability and children’s rights, inspiring them to think critically about their role in shaping the future. The stories explore themes of environmental stewardship and social impact, with reflection questions that help students connect with the characters and apply the lessons to their own lives. Through stories like “The Tree of Hope,” “The Voice of an Island,” and “A Monarch Adventure,” students are encouraged to explore their potential to contribute to a sustainable world.

SDG skills covered:

Futures Literacy: Imagine better futures and figure out the steps needed to make them a reality.
Exploratory Thinking: Tackle sustainability challenges by thinking holistically, creatively, and across different perspectives.

Books and comics

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

English

< 1 hour

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Sustainability Hour (lesson plan & presentation)

Sustainability Hour is an engaging, one-hour lesson designed to help teachers introduce students to important sustainability concepts. The program provides an easy-to-teach, expert-designed lesson that requires no prior experience and is available in multiple languages.

With just one hour, teachers can guide their students through practical, interactive activities that explore key sustainability topics and inspire them to take action for a better future. Whether you’re teaching about climate change, resource conservation, or global goals, Sustainability Hour equips you with everything you need to deliver a meaningful and impactful lesson.

SDG skills covered

Valuing Sustainability: Understand and reflect on how your personal values influence your impact on sustainability and be open to challenging them.
Circular Design Thinking: Design solutions that reduce waste and reuse resources by thinking creatively and working together with others.
Exploratory Thinking: Tackle sustainability challenges by thinking holistically, creatively, and across different perspectives

Activities

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

English

1-3 hours

Download Check out the presentation deck here!