World Food Day
World Food Day provides a useful context for exploring where food comes from, who produces it and why access to nutritious food is not equal. Learners can investigate food systems, farming, trade, climate change and sustainability, while thinking critically about the choices and structures that shape what people eat around the world.
International Day of Co-operatives
This is a chance to explore how people work together to meet shared needs.
How sustainable is your strawberry?
Use the Strawberry Compass rose to find out how sustainable your strawberry is.
Fair fashion
What choices do we make when we buy clothes?
My clothes and me
Love fashion, hate school uniform? What do you know about the clothes you wear?
Who Made my T-Shirt?
Watch the short film ‘Unravelling the Thread’ and find out about the workers involved in the journey of a t-shirt from cotton field to shop.
Dragon’s Den
What happens when you cross a group of engaged and motivated young people armed with inspiring climate-smart ideas for Earth’s future with COP26, the world’s biggest climate change conference? Katie McGeary from IDEAS reports.
Cearcal Clothes
Ben Sparham and S1 pupils from Inverness High School introduce the Geography of clothes and their prize winning social enterprise Cearcal Clothes.