WWF’s Earth Hour 2011 © Michel Roggo / WWF-Canon 26 March 2011 One Hour. One World. Our Future WWF’s Earth Hour 2011 PowerPoint for primary schools Climate change Coal, oil and gas are used for lots of different things, can you name any? WWF’s Earth Hour 2011 PowerPoint for primary schools Climate change Here are some of the things they are used for. They are used by factories to make things. They can be used to power cars. They can be burnt to make electricity. WWF’s Earth Hour 2011 PowerPoint for primary schools Climate change • Some of the things human do can help to make climate change even worse. • By wasting electricity or using a car all the time we are helping to make the world warmer. WWF’s Earth Hour 2011 PowerPoint for primary schools Climate change: Effects • Climate change is a really serious problem for humans and animals. • As the world gets warmer the ice at the North and South Poles could melt. • This will make it more difficult for the penguins and polar bears who live on the ice to survive. WWF’s Earth Hour 2011 PowerPoint for primary schools Climate change: Effects • Climate change could also have other serious effects on humans. • A change in the climate could make it much more difficult to grow food. • It could also lead to changes in the weather, making extreme weather like typhoons and hurricanes happen more often. WWF’s Earth Hour 2011 PowerPoint for primary schools Climate change: What can we do? There are lots of small changes which we can make to help to tackle climate change. Can you think of any? WWF’s Earth Hour 2011 PowerPoint for primary schools Climate change: What can we do? Here are a few changes we could make: • Walk or cycle instead of driving to school. • Switch televisions and computers off instead of leaving them on standby. • Put on a jumper when you are cold instead of turning on the heating. • Make sure to recycle all plastic, paper and glass instead of throwing it away. • Turn off the lights when you leave a room. WWF’s Earth Hour 2011 PowerPoint for primary schools Climate change: WWF’s Earth Hour However, it is also important that we tell important people like the government and big businesses that we think climate change is important. © istock.com It’s important that we all do our bit by making small changes to our lifestyle. WWF’s Earth Hour 2011 PowerPoint for primary schools Climate change: WWF’s Earth Hour One way of doing this by taking part in WWF’s Earth Hour. On the 26th March 2011, WWF is asking everyone to switch off their lights for 60 minutes. In 2010 hundreds of millions of people from over 128 countries joined in to make the biggest statement ever about climate change. WWF’s Earth Hour 2011 PowerPoint for primary schools Climate change: WWF’s Earth Hour Hundreds of famous buildings also switched off their lights in a show of support. Can you tell me what these famous buildings are? WWF’s Earth Hour 2011 PowerPoint for primary schools Climate change: WWF’s Earth Hour Can you tell me what these famous buildings are? WWF’s Earth Hour 2011 PowerPoint for primary schools Climate change: WWF’s Earth Hour This year we want to make the event even bigger; the world’s largest display of hope for a bright future. We will be celebrating WWF’s Earth Hour at school, but you can help by also passing the message to your friends and family and asking them to get involved. Thank you earthhour.wwf.org.uk/schools © 2011, WWF. All photographs used in this presentation are copyright protected and courtesy of the WWF-Canon Global Photo Network and the respective photographers. Presentation title can go here Secondary text can run underneath WWF IN SHORT +100 +5000 WWF is in over 100 countries, on 5 continents WWF has over 5,000 staff worldwide 1961 +5M WWF was founded In 1961 WWF has over 5 million supporters Photo: © Michel Roggo / WWF-Canon Presentation to Company Name 10 April, 2015 - 19