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SDG Week 2026: Shows about sustainability for kids

Sustainable Development Goals Week (SDG Week) is up and running across Ireland.

So, we are letting everyone know about the great shows for kids on RTÉ Player and RTÉ Listen with sustainability at their core - check them out!

For starters, the third series of Let's Find Out is called Protecting Planet Earth. Join the crew of the spaceship Curiosity to find out about the environment and see some cool experiments too.

Click here to see all the experiments.

Watch the trailer up top and stream all episodes on RTÉ Player here now!

What's Next?

In the RTÉ KIDS show What's Next?, young brainboxes from all over Ireland, with a little help from some influencers, compete to come up with ideas that could help save Planet Earth.

Each episode focuses on a new challenge: fast fashion, food, transportation, waste and housing.

Teachers can see the lesson plans here.

What's Next? - RTÉ Player

Where the Wild Geese Go

Where the Wild Geese Go is a thrilling adventure that follows the migration of the Light-Bellied Brent Goose from Ireland to Arctic Canada, and back again. It literally is a wild goose chase!

Visit rte.ie/goose now for all the shows and resources in English and Irish!

The full series is streaming now on RTÉ Player here.

Puffin Rock

Inspired by the Irish-made Puffin Rock TV series, streaming now on RTÉ Player, and the animated feature Puffin Rock and the New Friends, this wonderful book aims to encourage a sense of wonder about biodiversity among children, educators, and parents.

Click here to get the handbook.

Puffin Rock - RTÉ Player

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Our Sustainable Village

Our Sustainable Village is an environmental Podcast for the classroom that follows kids from six schools in Cabra, Dublin, over six months as they work with experts to make their community greener and healthier.

We want schools to be inspired and we are asking - what will you do? Teachers can use the resources below on their own project. Our Sustainable Village can turn into YOUR sustainable village.

Click here to get the classroom resources.

Our Sustainable Village - RTÉ Listen

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Ecolution

Over six seasons the Ecolution podcast has brought young people stories about the environment, both local and international, meeting people who are trying to make positive changes to help save the planet.

There is a massive back-catalogue of over 100 episodes where the team look at climate change, the natural world, wildlife and much more.

Have a listen and start up a conversation in the classroom or at home.

Ecolution - RTÉ Listen

For more classroom content visit RTÉ Learn here - Sustainable Development Goals.