Further resources:

• Sign up for a free online assembly hosted by Literacy Counts and CBeebies’ best-loved gardener Mr Bloom to celebrate World Environment Day with your EYFS pupils on 5th June.
• Join Mr Dilly and a host of best-selling authors for a World Environment Day event celebrating science, nature and the imagination. Aimed at pupils aged 7-13, the event is available to watch live on 5th June with a recording available to watch on demand.
• Find a selection of author videos, recommended booklists and activities themed around the environment from Scottish Book Trust.
• Primary experts Books for Topics have a plastic pollution booklist as well as recommendations to cover environmental sustainability and Awesome Planet Earth.
• Ensure your pupils can keep up to date with environmental issues by taking out a school subscription to a junior newspaper or nature magazine. Find a selection here.
• CLPE has created free teaching and discussion notes for a range of award-winning titles that explore environmental issues, all available to download with their free introductory membership.
• The NLT’s Plastic vs Planet resources, produced for Earth Day 2024 are still available to download. They include a booklist and teaching resources with activities to promote writing and speaking and listening for pupils in KS1-KS3 (ages 4-14). Available with free NLT membership.
• Explore news stories about plastic pollution encourage critical thinking and help students aged 10+ generate solutions with a free lesson plan from Topical Talk. You can find more news-based resources with an environmental theme here. All resources are free to download with registration.
• Register for Build the Change Tuesday, a free, weekly sustainability news worksheet from The Day and the LEGO Group that provides a news story and ready-to-go activities to prompt classroom debate and inspire young people aged 7-14 to create innovative solutions to the problems affecting our planet. You can also sign up for their Build for Belonging competition that runs until 30th June  for the chance to win 10,000 LEGO bricks.
• Discover Usborne’s Quicklinks to carefully selected websites with tips on how you and your pupils can help Save Planet Earth.
• Download free curriculum-linked teaching resources from Common Seas to help primary and secondary pupils explore the issue of marine plastic pollution.
• Sign up to become a Plastic Clever School, a school-wide challenge to reduce plastic waste with young people at the heart of the action. Free toolkits and supporting resources available for primary and secondary schools.
• The World’s Largest Lesson is an educational platform that provides free lesson plans and resources to help teach young people aged 4-18 about the Sustainable Development Goals and inspire them to take action and help build the world they would like to grow up in.
• Explore the different resources available from The Regenerators initiative from BBC Bitesize, a selection of lesson plans, activities and videos to support learning about the environment and sustainability for primary and secondary schools.
• Find curriculum linked resources and real-world activities that explore environmental issues for KS2 and KS3 pupils on the WWF website.
• Schools can sign up for the Earth School Programme from TED-Ed and the UN Environment Programme to access videos and quizzes that explore how our planet works and the action needed to protect it.