Workshop: Why Lagos Floods · For trained ambassadors
Bring
- Quiz sheets: one per student (each sheet is used twice, before and after)
- The sign-in sheet, filled before anything else happens
- Chalk or marker. A phone for photos, after consent.
- This guide. Nothing else. You are the material.
The 45 minutes
- 0–5 min
Pre-quiz
Hand out the quiz sheets. Students tick BEFORE, write name, class and date, answer all ten. No help, no stress: say clearly that this is not a test of them, it is a measurement of the workshop. Collect the sheets.
- 5–10 min
The hook
Ask: who here has seen a flooded street this year? Hands go up. Pick two students, let them tell it in 30 seconds each. Then say: today we find out why that keeps happening, and who is responsible. You have their attention now. Keep it.
- 10–25 min
The lesson: why Lagos floods
Three beats, in order. One: the greenhouse effect in two minutes (the suya-wrapper line works, use it). Two: the numbers on the board: 280 to 425 CO2, under 1% of emissions is Nigeria's, 320+ killed and 1.3 million displaced by the 2024 floods. Three: climate versus governance. Warmer air means more violent rain everywhere. Blocked drains decide whose street floods. Both are true. Knowing which is which tells you who to hold accountable.
- 25–35 min
Discussion: your street
Ask students to name flooding or heat problems on their own street or in this school. Write each on the board. Then sort them together into two columns: CLIMATE and GOVERNANCE. Some belong in both. The sorting argument is the learning. Do not rush it.
- 35–42 min
Post-quiz
Same sheets, same ten questions. Students tick AFTER this time. Collect. This pair of scores is the whole evidence base of the network. Guard the sheets like money.
- 42–45 min
The close
Tell them: everything from today is a free course that runs on any phone. Write the site address on the board. Say the last line plainly: finish the courses and you can be standing where I am standing next term. That sentence recruits your successor.
Facilitation rules
- You are a peer, not a lecturer. Say 'we', not 'you people'.
- No doom. The frame is injustice and agency, never guilt or despair.
- Local language is welcome. If a point lands better in Yoruba or Pidgin, use it.
- Never invent a number. If you don't know, say 'I'll check and get back to you', and do.
- Photos: only after the sign-in sheet consent is done. Skip anyone who opted out.
After the workshop
- Score both quiz rounds the same day. Record per student: before score, after score.
- Send scores, attendance count, school name and date to the Cylin coordinator.
- Collect one student or teacher quote, written down word for word, with permission.
- File the paper sheets. They are the audit trail behind every number we publish.
Answer key (keep this page)
CY-101 quiz, questions 1–10:
1-B 2-C 3-A 4-C 5-B 6-B 7-B 8-B 9-A 10-A