Specialist Session: Experience the Environment

Submitted by Brigitte Rudram | published 12th Nov 2019 | last updated 17th Mar 2020

Specialist Session: Experience the Environment

Specialist Session

Experience the Environment is a Y-Adapt Specialist Session.

Specialist sessions give youth an exciting opportunity to explore technical topics from the Y-Adapt curriculum, in additional detail.

Specialist sessions can be run as an integral part of the Y-Adapt curriculum to complement the learning, or they can be used as stand-alone sessions.

Implementation

Stand alone session	YES
Y-Adapt integration	YES - between sessions 5 and 6
Duration	1 hour - feasible if keep to activity time guides

Description

An ecosystem simulation game and a scavenger hunt to explain ecosystem services ending with a game to emphasise the role a well-managed environment plays in climate change adaptation

Real World Goals

To introduce environmental resources and ecosystem services
To understand the environment can increase disaster risk if badly managed
To understand environmental resources can help reduce disaster risk if well-managed

Acknowledgements

‘Experience the Environment’ is a specialist session of the Y-Adapt curriculum and is the product of a collaboration between the Red Cross Red Crescent Climate Centre, the Iranian Red Crescent Society and the International Federation of the Red Cross Red Crescent.

We also extend our gratitude to the Uganda Red Cross Society, which played a key role in the testing and finalisation of the materials.

Further resources

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