About This Lesson
This teacher toolkit is designed to nurture the innate creativity of young people and channel it towards solving environmental challenges. It offers a flexible framework for creative problem solving that can be applied across different subject areas to inspire big, bold, creative ideas to repair our planet.
From September 2021 students will be able to share their work via the Generation Earthshot website and connect with others around the world, in the build up to the first ever Earthshot Prize awards which will be broadcast worldwide. Visit the website to access the resources and sign up for news.
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STAGE 1. INTRODUCE THE EARTHSHOT PRIZE AND GENERATION EARTHSHOT
Share the idea of The Earthshot Prize with students and excite them about joining in.
STAGE 2. THE PROBLEM STAGE
Discover the Earthshots and facilitate students in defining the problem they wish to solve.
STAGE 3. THE IDEAS STAGE
Help students generate ideas in an organised way. Then evaluate and refine them.
STAGE 4. THE SOLUTION STAGE
Students take on roles, present ideas and share them with others. Then they reflect and identify their next steps.
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