To accompany the exhibition and provide opportunities for children and young people to engage with the themes, people and places it contains, we are developing resources for teachers.
Worksheets
- Worksheet (Levels 1 and 2) (pdf)
- Worksheet (Levels 1 and 2), with answers (pdf)
- Worksheet (Levels 3 and 4) (pdf)
- Worksheet (Levels 3 and 4), with answers (pdf)
Further resources on peatlands
- Interview with Dr Katy Roucoux for Attalea, the outreach magazine of the Research Institute of Peruvian Amazon (IIAP)
- Interview with Dr Katy Roucoux about the tropical peatlands of Peru, as part of the Royal Geographical Society’s (RGS) resources for schools
- International Union for the Conservation of Nature (IUCN): Issues Brief on Peatlands and climate change
- IUCN UK Peatlands Programme
- UN Environment Programme (UNEP) article: Peatlands store twice as much carbon as all the world’s forests
- UNEP Decade of Restoration information on peatlands
- UNEP article: Protecting peatlands for people and planet
- Global Peatlands Initiative
- International Peatland Society
- RE-PEAT youth-led collective
- British Ecological Society: Special Interest Group on Peatlands Research
- The Extraordinary Story of Peat and Carbon animation (video from the IUCN UK Peatland Programme)