Climate Trunk for Schools is being piloted in 28 UK secondary schools in partnership with the University of Oxford's NetZeroEd initiative. Special thanks to Amelia Farber and the NetZeroEd team for helping bring the project into classrooms.
Climate change is a huge subject. It can feel overwhelming. Climate Trunk helps students make sense of it, one visual at a time.
Each week, schools can get a new Trunk visual exploring a different aspect of climate science, energy, economics, nature or the net zero transition. Over time, the Trunk's rings connect all those pieces together, helping students see how they fit into the bigger picture.
Use the visuals on classroom walls, in lessons or as a starting point for discussion. They can help students understand the evidence, spot common climate myths and deflection arguments, and make sense of a subject they encounter in textbooks and on TikTok.
Climate Trunk is aimed at secondary schools, with visuals that can be used across:
The aim is to explain. Students can explore how the climate system works, what's happening in the energy transition and the evidence behind many of the world's biggest climate debates.
Climate Trunk grows every week. It's a living resource.
Each new infographic adds another piece to the picture. Over the course of a year (going on three), schools can build up a visual guide to climate change and the global energy transition – one that shows the connections between topics rather than treating each as an isolated lesson.
If you're a teacher, school leader, academy trust or education organisation, we'd love to hear from you. Or ping John on LinkedIn.
