Learning in lockdown - Using the COVID-19 crisis to teach children about food and climate change
A group led by the University of Manchester has described how it used the challenges of lockdown caused by the global covid-19 pandemic to continue to deliver important messages about climate change to young people.
Nutrition Bulletin, the group, Take a Bite Out of Climate Change, related how their previously successful outreach activities, which have been run at various science festivals around the UK, as well as used in workshops in India, Brazil and Myanmar, were adapted to cope with lockdown.
When the pandemic hit, the group had plans for a summer packed full of food and climate change education activities. Rather than lose these resources, the decision was taken to move delivery of the activities online, and the group worked hard to transform face-to-face materials into online teaching videos and activities.