Designathon Works | Global learning & exchange week

Welcome to the Global Learning and Exchange Week - one week dedicated to learning, sharing, and taking action to tackle climate change through ecosystem restoration. Children (aged 8-12) and their educators will benefit from inspirational talks from youth and industry leaders and learning and exchange opportunities to further develop their ideating, sketching, prototyping and pitching skills - positioning them as changemakers in the battle against climate change.

LEARN & INSPIRE

Children learn more from the theme experts and connect with youth changemakers. This in order to deepen their learnings and increase their agency.

EXCHANGE

Children connect with other classrooms across the world to exchange their learnings, ideas and concepts with each other. This in order to truly develop their global citizenship skills, peer to peer learning and to learn about other contexts.

DO

Children receive an opportunity to develop their ideating, sketching, prototyping and pitching skills. This in order to further develop their creative (thinking) and communication skills.

GATHER

All participating classrooms/groups will gather in one big online session for an inspiring keynote. This culminating event will be the first of its kind, representing the voices of children from across the globe, coming together for the planet.

LEARN & INSPIRE

Here you can find more resource on the links between ecosystems restoration and climate change. Meet environmental activist, Natasha Mwanza, and others as they tackle the designathon challenge with children around the world, download teaching materials on the ecosystems restoration and encourage children to play the Kahoot of the day.

Learn & Inspire

Participate

Eco-warrior session 1

Monday, 14 March 2022 @ 10h00 CET

Join us for a mini online designathon hosted by Nancy Sumari. Think through ways of restoring our ecosystems to tackle climate change with youth leader Natasha Mwanza, and young people from Tanzania, Nepal, and Ireland.

To register for the event - click here

Learn

Poster: What is an ecosystem

Video: How does restoring ecosystems help tackle climate change?

Play

This Kahoot challenges children to think deeper into the roles and responsibilities associated with restoring ecosystems and tackling climate change

Divide learners into teams of two
Click this link and let children answer the three questions in the Kahoot! (Enter this pin 01744753)
Create the space for children to compare their questions, discuss any differences in their answers and share their thoughts

EXCHANGE

Here you can engage with classrooms around the world. Join the open mic sessions to hear about innovations in insights from educators and their learners from around the world, download learning materials on digital storytelling and other impactful communication tools and don’t forget to encourage children to play the Kahoot of the day.

Learn

Video: A step by step guide to digital storytelling

Poster: Communicating climate change

Participate

Eco-warrior sessions 2

Tuesday, 15 March @ 09h00 (CET), and/or 11H00 (CET), and/or 15h00 (CET) and/or 20H00 (CET)

Register for one of our open mic to share your stories, experiences or challenges or join a session to learn more from fellow participants

To register for the event - click here

Play

This kahoot challenges children to think deeper about the impact climate change will have on their cities, neighbourhoods, and households

Divide learners into teams of two
Click this link and let children answer the three questions in the Kahoot! (Enter this pin 01744753)
Create the space for children to compare their questions, discuss any differences in their answers and share their thoughts

DO

Here you will find resources on how to design and prototype impactful innovations, and don’t forget to encourage children to play the Kahoot of the day.

Play

This kahoot stimulates children's creative thinking around ecosystems restoration

Divide learners into teams of two
Click this link and let children answer the three questions in the Kahoot! (Enter this pin 01744753)
Create the space for children to compare their questions, discuss any differences in their answers and share their thoughts

Learn

Video: A step by step guide to prototyping

Poster: Using nature to solve climate change

Participate

Eco-warrior session

Wednesday, 16 March 2022 @ 15h00 CET

Join Designathon Works founder Emer Beamer as she takes a deep dive into the doing of design.

To register for the event - click here

GATHER

Here you will find more resources on how to translate your learning into action! Join Karan Jerath, a UN climate change ambassador and ecosystems restorer, in a final event focused on taking climate action now!

Gather

Play

This kahoot challenges children to translate the weeks learning into action!

Divide learners into teams of two
Click this link and let children answer the three questions in the Kahoot! (Enter this pin 01744753)
Create the space for children to compare their questions, discuss any differences in their answers and share their thoughts

Learn

Poster: Five practical ways of taking climate action today

Participate

Eco-warrior session

Friday, 18 March at 10h00 CET

Join this online meet-up, in which climate change leaders, children and their educators, come together to share their experience in the Learning and Exchange Week's final event.

To register for the event - click here