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About Climate Detectives Kids

Climate Detectives kids challenges students to make a difference by engaging with Earth’s environment to help protect it.

In this project students will complete activities focusing on Earth’s environment, collect evidence of their discoveries and earn badges for each activity!

The more we know about our planet the more we can do to protect it!

1 hour per activity

suggested for up to 12 years old

up to the whole class

Non Competitive

How to take part

Choose one of the proposed activities or create your own, and submit a description and a picture of your project.

Teams that submit one activity will receive a silver badge. If teams complete two activities, they will receive a gold badge plus a virtual certificate as a recognition of their detective work to understand and protect our home planet.

Visit the virtual gallery of your team and share your project with your family and friends!

Timeline

The project is open from 9 September 2024 to 4 April 2025. Teams can submit the activities all at once or in different moments.

Why participate

By participating in the Climate Detectives kids project, young students will learn about Earth’s science and environment through selected learning resources and hands-on activities as well as understand the importance of respecting our environment.

Who can participate

Age range: The Climate Detectives kids activities are suggested for ages 8 to 12 years old but can easily be adapted for other age groups and skill levels.
Teams: No minimum or maximum number of team members required to participate, but students are encouraged to work with at least 1 other person.
Each team must be supported by a Team Leader (teacher, mentor, educator, or parent). Family teams are welcome.
At least 50% of the team members must have the nationality of an ESA Member State. Further to the 22 Member States, also Canada, Latvia, Lithuania, Slovakia and Slovenia, based on their agreements with ESA, qualify to fully participate in the programmes of the ESA Education Office. In the framework of the current collaboration agreement between ESA and the Republic of Malta, teams from Malta can also participate in the Climate Detectives project.

Suggested activities

Explore the Climate Detectives activities and learn more about Earth’s environment and how to monitor our planet from space. You can also explore extra tools and resources in your country page.

Nose up high in the sky – Observing and measuring weather conditions

Brief description In this set of three activities, students will learn how their senses and instruments can be used to...

Is ozone good or bad? -The discovery of the Antarctic ozone hole

Brief description In this set of three activities, students will learn about ozone and the impacts – good and bad...

The ice is melting – How can we investigate the effects of melting ice?

Brief description In this set of four activities, pupils will explore the impacts of global warming and melting ice on...

Country under Threat – The prospects for life on small islands

Brief description In this set of four activities pupils will learn about the causes and potential impacts of sea-level rise...

The Water Cycle

Brief description In this set of six activities, students will learn about the water cycle and, in particular, how water...

Earth under the lid – Understanding the greenhouse effect

Brief description In this set of two activities, pupils will learn about our atmosphere and the greenhouse gases that it...

From the Ground and from the Sky- Analysing and understanding images of planet Earth taken from space

Brief description In this set of three activities, pupils are introduced to the idea of remote observation of the Earth...

Weather vs Climate – Understanding the difference between weather and climate

Brief description In this set of three activities, students will learn the difference between weather and climate. They will identify...

The Magic of Light – Using spectroscopes and colour wheels to study the properties of light

Brief description In this set of eight activities, pupils work individually or in groups to build a spectroscope that can...

One year on Earth – Understanding seasons

Brief description This resource includes two activities to foster and enhance pupils’ knowledge of seasons, and focuses on the basic...

Astro farmer

Brief description:In this set of six activities, students will investigate which factors affect plant growth, and relate these factors to...