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EDUCATION (K-UNIVERSITY)

Climate touches everything. Talk Climate resource pages are designed to support justice-based climate education, to provide guidance for productive and empowering climate conversations, and to offer ways to take climate action.


Educators play an important role in guiding pro-climate behaviors, adaptation, and cultural shift.

"Everything depends on our ability to sustainably inhabit this earth, and true sustainability will require us all to change our way of thinking on how we take from the earth and how we give back."  - Deb Haaland

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Climate justice organizations for educators

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Climate Change Education Collective

Climate Reality

Educators for Climate Action

Existential Toolkit for Climate Justice Educators 

Union of Concerned Scientists


Take Action!

100% Renewable Campus

Find More Climate Action Groups

Climate Curriculum (Open access)

K-12 Climate Curriculum

Student designed Climate Crisis Mini-Unit (Seattle Public Schools)

Our Climate Our Future (Alliance for Climate Education)

Children's Environmental Literacy Foundation

iCivics

Climate Action Childhood Net

ClimeTime

Honoring the Future

Learning for a Sustainable Future

Learning in Places

Minecraft: Sustainability City

Our Children’s Trust Curriculum

Resources for Rethinking

Stanford Earth

Teachers4SocialChange

ThoughtBox

Young Voices for the Planet

*Climate Stories Map: Our Climate, Our Future (Citizen Scientist Tool)

*I See Change (Citizen Scientist Tool)


K-University Curriculum

CAMEL Climate Adaption Mitigation E-Learning

CLEAN (vetted compilation of free teaching resources)

Earth Guardians Educational Resources

CivxNow

Climate Change Education Partnership

Climate Generation

Climate Justice and Learning Resources (Deb Morrison)

Climate Reality Project

Institute for Systems Biology

National Geographic Education Resources

SDG Resources for Educators - Climate Action

STEM Teaching Tools

Teaching intersectionality and climate justice in our classrooms (NAACP)

Zinn Education Project


College and University Climate Curriculum

Climate Justice in Undergraduate STEM Incorporating Civic Engagement (C-JUSTICE)

Climate Change Curriculum (Kim Nicholas)

Native Case Studies (Evergreen College)

Videos & Podcasts

Collection of videos and podcasts with resources for incorporating climate justice into curriculum.

Link to Education Videos and Podcasts

Websites

General Websites 

Child and Nature

Climate Change Education Collective

EarthGen

Native Case Studies

North American Association for Environmental Education

Slow Factory Foundation


School Campaigns and Organizing

100% Clean Energy School District Organizing Handbook (Climate Parents, Sierra Club)

Climate Justice League (University of Oregon)

Green Schools Alliance - King County, WA

The Center for Green Schools

Zinn Teach Climate Justice Campaign

Books

General

Miseducation: How Climate Change is Taught in America (2021)

Under The Sky We Make (2021)

Communicating Climate Change (2018)

Confronting Climate Crises Through Education: Reading our way Forward (2018)

Climate Change in Practice: Topics for Discussion with Group Exercises (2017)

Teaching and Learning about Climate Change: A Framework for Educators (2017) 

The Teacher Friendly Guide to Climate Change (2017)

Teaching Climate Change in the Humanities (2017)

The Rise of the American Conservation Movement: Power, Privilege, and Environmental Protection (2016)

Teaching for Diversity and Social Justice, 3rd Ed. (2016)


Pre-K

Preschool Beyond Walls: Blending Early Learning Childhood Education and Nature-Based Learning (2019)


High School

Teaching Climate Change to Adolescents: Reading, Writing, and Making a Difference (2017)

Articles

Climate Justice Curriculum and Policy Articles 

Kids and climate change: Who's learning what - or not - and why (Frontline, 2021)

Realizing climate justice: Systemic racism and climate change (The Aspen Institute, 2021)

Climate change education: A model of justice-oriented STEM education (NSTA, 2021)

New green learning agenda: Approaches to quality education for climate action (Brookings, 2021)

State Policy Landscape 2020: K12 Climate Action (The Aspen Institute, 2020)


Climate Teaching Tools Articles 

Minecraft has a new sustainable city map to explore (Earther, 2021)

Most teachers don’t talk about climate in the classroom. WA state is changing that. (Grist, 2020) 

This professor is shedding light on energy injustice -- and how to fix it (Grist, 2020)

8 ways to teach climate change in almost any classroom (NPR, 2019)


Nature-based Education Articles 

Do experiences with nature promote learning? (Frontiers in Psychology, 2019)

Connection to nature lessens distress and behavioral problems (Science Daily, 2019)

A return to nature based education (Yes! Solutions Journalism, 2019)


Education and Climate Action Articles 

The Department of Education can help address climate change (Century Foundation, 2020)

Education’s role in building back better for the planet (Brookings, 2020)

Raise ambition at climate summit: promote quality education (Brookings, 2020)

Teaching climate in classrooms critical for children, top educators say (Guardian, 2020)


STEM Teaching Tools for Climate Justice

Let’s Talk Climate! Bridging Climate Justice Learning and Action Across School, Home, and Community

How to productively reframe eco-anxiety as a science communicator or educator

How can we confront and dismantle systemic racism through science learning 

How you can advance equity and justice through science teaching

How can environmental educators practice intersectional environmentalism

Navigating the political dimensions of climate change teaching and learning

Addressing controversial science topics in the K-12 classroom

Scientific literacy involves understanding global climate change & what people can do about it

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