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 collective 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
Climate justice organizations for educators
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
Learning for a Sustainable Future
Minecraft: Sustainability City
Our Children’s Trust Curriculum
*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
Climate Change Education Partnership
Climate Justice and Learning Resources
National Geographic Education Resources
SDG Resources for Educators - Climate Action
STEM Teaching Tools (University of Washington)
Teaching intersectionality and climate justice in our classrooms (NAACP)
College and University Climate Curriculum
Climate Justice in Undergraduate STEM Incorporating Civic Engagement (C-JUSTICE) (2-year college focused)
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.
Websites
General Websites
Climate Change Education Collective
Existential Toolkit for Climate Justice Educators
North American Association for Environmental Education
School Campaigns and Organizing
100% Clean Energy School District Organizing Handbook (Climate Parents, Sierra Club)
Climate Justice League (University of Oregon)
Books
General
The Existential Toolkit for Climate Justice Educators (2024)
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)
Realizing climate justice: Systemic racism and climate change (The Aspen Institute)
Climate change education: A model of justice-oriented STEM education (NSTA)
New green learning agenda: Approaches to quality education for climate action (Brookings)
State Policy Landscape 2020: K12 Climate Action (The Aspen Institute)
Climate Teaching Tools Articles
Minecraft has a new sustainable city map to explore (Earther)
Most teachers don’t talk about climate in the classroom. WA state is changing that. (Grist)
This professor is shedding light on energy injustice -- and how to fix it (Grist)
8 ways to teach climate change in almost any classroom (NPR)
Nature-based Education Articles
Do experiences with nature promote learning? (Frontiers in Psychology)
Connection to nature lessens distress and behavioral problems (Science Daily)
A return to nature based education (Yes! Solutions Journalism)
Education and Climate Action Articles
The Department of Education can help address climate change (Century Foundation)
Education’s role in building back better for the planet (Brookings)
Raise ambition at climate summit: promote quality education (Brookings)
Teaching climate in classrooms critical for children, top educators say (Guardian)
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