Kids Teaching Kids

The Kids Teaching Kids Program promotes positive wellbeing and helps build resilience in young people. It raises awareness and drives action on local and global environmental issues, bringing communities together to solve common challenges and help the next generation of leaders who will take collective responsibility for our future.

We aim to

	Increase environmental literacy
	Create connections within communities
	Drive on-ground environmental projects
	Encourage engagement in STEM

Our programs have been refined over time and have 4 key change-making steps:

Kids Teaching Kids

Our Impact

We have motivated more than 146,000 students since 1999 to research important environmental and sustainability issues and bring about real positive change.

Outcomes are driven by our two flagship events: Kids Teaching Kids Week, and the Annual Conference.

At a glance, this is our impact:

Awards and Recognition

We have received recognition for our efforts through a series of awards.

2012	Telstra Australia Business Awards (VIC) – News Limited Micro-Business Awards
2010	Banksia Awards – People Choice Award
2004	World Environment Day Awards Finalist – Outstanding Service to the Environment
2003 – 2005	Banksia Awards Finalist – Education Category
2002 - 2004	Eureka Science Prize Finalist – Education Category

UN SDG Alignment

Our work is highly aligned with national and international goals towards sustainable life.

Through involvement in the Kids Teaching Kids Program sponsors, schools and other supporting organisations directly progress on two sustainable development goals (SDGs):

	Education and lifelong learning (SDG 4), and
	Promoting partnerships (SDG 17)

Through sponsorship, support and involvement in our teaching activities, participants also gain awareness and understanding of four additional goals:

	Clean water and sanitation (SDG 6)
	Sustainable cities and communities (SDG 11)
	Climate action (SDG 13), and
	Life on land (SDG 15)

Latest

Workshops

Focusing on two areas, Climate Action and Wetlands, your school can host workshops with Earthwatch program managers.
ClimateWatch

ClimateWatch is a program that aims to understand how changes in temperature and rainfall are affecting the seasonal behaviour of Australia's plants and animals by monitoring changes in flowering times, breeding cycles and migration movement. Simply by snapping a photo in your backyard or local area, ClimateWatch gives every Australian the opportunity to get involved in collecting and recording data that will help shape the country’s scientific response to climate change.
Tiny Forests

Urban forests play a critical role in maintaining the health and liveability of cities, increasing a city's resilience. Earthwatch Australia is partnering with researchers and social enterprises across Australia to deliver tiny forests, an accelerated and intensive planting process to bring biodiversity back into our cities.
Wetlands not Wastelands

In partnership with Coca Cola Australia Foundation, the Carpentaria Land Council Aboriginal Corporation, and Plastic Collective, Earthwatch provides training to 20 CLCAC Indigenous Land and Environment Rangers and 30 community volunteers to help deliver a first-of-its-kind marine pollution and wetland management program in the Lower Gulf of Carpentaria.

Student Challenge

Students can apply for full scholarships to participate in week-long research expeditions held during school holidays.
Our Impact - Kids Teaching Kids

Kids Teaching Kids makes it easy and fun for school students to learn about environmental issues and become confident, caring and informed citizens ready to take on new challenges.
Bush Blitz RV Investigator 2021

The Bush Blitz Adventure portal visits the Research Vessel Investigator over July-August 2021
Environmental Education Mentors

Become an in-school environmental mentor as part of our Kids Teaching Kids program.
Swarovski Waterschool

Joining an international water education program, Earthwatch is enabling school students in Australia to become water conservation and environmental leaders through our Kids Teaching Kids pedagogy.
Celebrating 50 years of Giving Back to Nature

Just as we need nature, the environment needs us. Earthwatch is celebrating our 50th year. Make a donation to Earthwatch today.
2021 Kids Teaching Kids Conference

Education is the key to lasting project success and a tangible cultural change in the way we view and manage our environment. The Kids Teaching Kids conference has inspired over 135,000 students since 1999.
Get Involved

Show your support by empowering kids to save the natural world.
Team Building

Staff engagement and team building with Earthwatch enhances staff wellbeing, improves scientific literacy, encourages sustainable living, and positively transforms lives, both personally and professionally.
Bush Blitz Little Desert National Park 2019

The Bush Blitz Adventure Portal visits Little Desert National Park VIC in October 2019.

Save the Reef and Oceans

From biodiversity and food supply to the livelihoods of millions, so much depends on our oceans. Coral reefs are home to one quarter of all life in the oceans, and provide humans with immense benefits such as coastal protection, fisheries, and tourism.
Global Impact

Earthwatch is committed globally to inspiring action for a net positive impact on the environment.
Plastic Pollution Solutions

By 2050 it is predicted there will be more plastic in the ocean than fish. We need to act now to stop plastics entering our oceans and we can't do it without your support.
Recovery of the Great Barrier Reef

Help Earthwatch scientists in active recovery efforts on and around Magnetic Island on Australia’s Great Barrier Reef.
Why It Matters

The global climate crisis is the most pressing environmental challenge humanity now faces. Earthwatch can help you be a part of the solution and together we can keep ahead of climate change.
Protect our Unique Wildlife

Australia is renowned for its unique wildlife, with more than 70% of our species found nowhere else on earth. We can stop the decline of our wildlife by helping people reconnect with nature.
Save the Bees

Global honey bee populations are decreasing at an alarming rate. To understand and prevent colony collapse, Earthwatch is putting tiny ‘backpacks’ on our bee friends to find out more about them.
Expedition Team Leader

Do you have a passion for science, biodiversity and education? We are looking for an Expedition Team Leader for our Bush Blitz Expedition at Fowlers Bay.
ClimateWatch

ClimateWatch is a program that aims to understand how changes in temperature and rainfall are affecting the seasonal behaviour of Australia's plants and animals by monitoring changes in flowering times, breeding cycles and migration movement. Simply by snapping a photo in your backyard or local area, ClimateWatch gives every Australian the opportunity to get involved in collecting and recording data that will help shape the country’s scientific response to climate change.
Corporate Sustainability

Earthwatch helps businesses understand their environmental impacts, build resilience and demonstrate leadership in sustainability.

Increase environmental literacy

Create connections within communities

Drive on-ground environmental projects

Encourage engagement in STEM

Our Impact

Awards and Recognition

UN SDG Alignment

Education and lifelong learning (SDG 4), and

Promoting partnerships (SDG 17)

Clean water and sanitation (SDG 6)

Sustainable cities and communities (SDG 11)

Climate action (SDG 13), and

Life on land (SDG 15)