Environmental Education
Schools’ Eco-Clubs
Theory of change
The Theory of Change shows how Eco-Clubs help children become environmental protectors through fun, practical learning. First, the program provides key inputs such as schools, teachers, materials, and community support. These enable engaging activities like role-play, art, tree planting, clean-up campaigns, and interactive lessons. As children participate, they produce visible outputs, including cleaner surroundings, planted trees, awareness campaigns, and school events
Through these experiences, children achieve important outcomes: they gain knowledge about the environment, develop positive attitudes like care and responsibility, and adopt eco-friendly behaviors in daily life. These changes extend beyond the classroom, influencing families and communities.
Ultimately, the impact is a greener, healthier future led by environmentally conscious children. By learning, caring, and acting, kids become agents of change who inspire others and contribute to sustainable communities and long-term environmental protection.
Ecosystem through Video and Discussion
For children at 6th grade, explaining ecosystem followed by discussing is deemed beneficial as it permits children get out of the traditional education methods and letting them compare the examples shown to their living environments.
Environmental Education
Learning Nature’s Balance: Eco-Club Activities on Food Chains and Environmental Responsibility
Environmental Education
Eco-Club activities helped children explore how nature stays balanced and why every living organism matters. In one interactive game, students learned about the food chain and the flow of energy in ecosystems. They discovered how the sun provides energy for plants, plants feed insects, insects are eaten by frogs, and frogs become prey for snakes.
By taking on different roles in the food chain, children could clearly see how all parts of nature depend on one another. The activity also showed how human actions can disturb this balance—for example, removing insects may reduce food for frogs and affect animals that rely on them.
Another activity focused on recognizing positive and harmful environmental behaviors. Children viewed images showing everyday actions such as recycling, planting trees, wasting water, or littering. In a game-style discussion, they decided whether each action was good or harmful for the environment, encouraging critical thinking and shared learning about sustainable habits.
Education Environment through handcraft and Arts
Schoolchildren are encouraged to create illustrations, images and other handcraft materials to express issues related to environment, ecosystem and other climate change issues to be presented at school shows.
Training Educators on Eco-Clubs Management
Following approval from the Sulaimaniyah Directorate General of Education and the education directorates in the eastern and western regions and other cities, IRO is continuously working to establish environmental clubs in several schools in Sulaimaniyah and surrounding areas, Bazian, Chamchamal, and Darbandikhan.
To this end, a training program will be offered, including a detailed explanation of the program for teachers and school boards, followed by an explanation of key points on how to establish and manage the clubs.
Key training topics
✓ Club management
✓ Service mapping
✓ Climate change impacts