Raising awareness of global climate change through a school eco-team

The importance of the topic of global climate change is on the rise, so nowadays in most schools in the world we try to implement topics related to this change into our school curricula. Other means of raising awareness of this topic can be school activities that do not take place directly in the classroom. Undoubtedly, the work of the school's eco team ranks among them.

We founded the eco team at our school two years ago. Since its establishment, our eco team organized many interesting activities for students and teachers of our school, which are connected with concepts such as sustainability, ecology and, last but not least, global climate change.

We are aware that the creation and systematic work of a school eco-team must be well thought out. With this presentation, we want to point out the pitfalls of ecoteam work and introduce colleagues to the concept for managing and cooperation within an ecoteam. We will also present the activities that the eco team can offer to the school and from which both students and teachers can profit in their subjects. The work of a high-quality eco-team certainly has a positive impact on the knowledge, skills and attitudes of pupils in matters of environmental protection.