Jun: Online, 2x half day (Carbon Literacy Course for Sustainability Leaders)

Our Carbon Literacy Courses is an 8 hour certified learning experience where you will learn all about climate change, carbon footprints and how you can create an impactful response to this critical issue. In addition to learning about the issues, you will also be introduced to the ‘How Bad are Bananas?’ Carbon Footprint Game. This game can be used as an addition to effectively educate your pupils/students/staff or other stakeholders on their personal carbon footprint and its impact on the planet. Games can be purchased separately. The course has been criteria checked by the Carbon Literacy Trust (CLT) and on completion of the necessary assessment, you will receive a Carbon Literacy Certificate signed off by the Trust. You can choose between: • 2x 4 hour (half days) over 2 weeks duration • 3x 2.5 hour twilight sessions over 1 week duration

Facilitators, trainers, teachers, educators and sustainability professionals with a remit to engage and teach your stakeholders about the climate crisis or net zero. Primary or secondary school teachers (Year 5 is recommended), those who work at an FE college or University or even an educational charity. We welcome teachers and learners from across the globe to our online courses. Anyone passionate about educating others in carbon literacy!

Access to 8 hours of learning with the option of face-to-face or online. Face-to-face course includes low carbon refreshments throughout the day. Travel costs to the event are not included. To be able to participate fully in the training, you will need to have access to a fully charged smart phone, I-Pad or laptop. If you are unable to access this, please notify us before the day and we will endeavour to loan you COVID-secure equipment if attending the face-to-face course or provide paper materials as necessary. A Carbon Literacy Certificate is included once you have successfully completed the assessment.

There is a big gap in knowledge on climate change and action. Our Carbon Literacy Course specifically targets those who are delivering learning on carbon footprints and climate change and helps them to understand what the issues are as well as making commitments to educate others about the issues.

This is the UK’s first ‘Carbon Literacy Course that focuses the learning specifically on others that intend to teach or train about the climate and ecological emergencies. You can then increase your impact by spreading the messages about climate change and make a bigger impact by upskilling others on the key issues.

Face-to-face course: £199 per person (special offer until 31st December 2021 of £175 per person)

Online courses: £175 per person (special offer until 31st December 2021 of £150 per person)

We’re selling a discounted bundle of 1 x learner on the ‘Carbon Literacy Course plus a small game (set A or B) with automatic access to the Carbon Academy for 1x game facilitators. This then gives you our basic small physical game which is perfect for use in schools or training events plus the Carbon Literacy course to give you the confidence to deliver the game at your learning, school, university or engagement events. For more details on costs, see the bundles section of the shop

You can substitute other members of your team right to the last day, as long as you notify the trainer by email of this change by 8am on the day. If you’re unavailable due to unforeseen circumstances on the day and can’t make the course and have no one else you can substitute, you will be given a voucher code to join an online course within 12 months.

Research has shown that children can recall far better details of games they have played than most formal learning they receive. Using games as a way of learning works very effectively as they engage players in multiple different ways simultaneously.

As Kolb (1984) outlined in his theory of experiential learning, we all learn in multiple different ways (active learning, planning, theorising, reflection) and games are very good at engaging multiple learning capacities simultaneously. Marketeers know that we love receiving prizes, recognition, badges and rewards for doing (or not doing!) stuff. This trend for gamification has taken off and is now all around us!

The only way our game is different is that it’s a game NOT JUST gamified learning. By building on societies love of games, we aim to create even more intrinsic motivation for people to engage with the game than just the extrinsic motivation to collect rewards.

No. The Carbon Literacy course must be delivered over 8 hours before you can be certified as Carbon Literate.

Our Carbon Academy focuses on teaching you specifically how to use your new games and play in a way that should be most impactful with your stakeholders or learners as well as giving you a bit of background on the climate science.

The Carbon Literacy course, will use the carbon footprint games as part of your learning and will give you an overview of how playing the game is an effective way of delivering carbon literacy. The Carbon Literacy courses are longer pieces of learning – you also get the background on climate science delivered through a group exercise, as well as giving you space to reflect on your own climate action plans. Find out more about the Carbon Literacy courses here.