Ideas and tools to boost your confidence and
engage your students…explore!
This website provides an “ecosystem of resources” for teachers and other educational leaders who want children to understand global climate realities, discover the ways that human communities can help regenerate the Earth, and take action towards more desirable and equitable futures.
This new book—Teaching Climate Change: Fostering Understanding, Resilience, and a Commitment to Justice—provides foundational ideas about the science, the solutions, how to handle climate emotions, and gives examples from a range of classrooms.
A Vision of Climate Change Teaching
Students’ experiences with these have to be focused on big ideas, coherent and cumulative over time. This page suggests what our goals should be and what curriculum frameworks, tools, and experiences can be part of a trajectory of learning.
New Chapter Updates and Resources
Many new and compelling ideas never made it into the book. Look here for more on the science, interdisciplinary curriculum, talking with kids about anxiety and grief, disinformation, social justice stories, activism, climate models and visualizations.
Book Club Ideas
Ways to set up a reading group. Good questions to set up conversation, establishing participation norms, reading chapters in an order that makes sense for your needs. Using ideas from chapters to try strategies out in your classrooms.
Blog—What’s New?
Ongoing commentary about what teachers are trying, the state of CC education around the world, policy, proposed transformations of educational systems to address climate and its implications for societies.
Credible Sources of New Info and Data
Here I share trustworthy reports, information, data and podcasts. These are for you but they are also for students to explore. Don’t fish around the web for resources—try starting with some of these and see what they are linked to.