Climate Change
Here you will find reading comprehension tools, activities and other resources to bring “Losing Earth,” The New York Times Magazine’s special issue on climate change, into the classroom and beyond.
NPR’s thoughts about how to broach the climate change subject with students, no matter what subject you teach.
Climate Change is a free, online textbook with a detailed overview of climate change.
Climate change is an important learning and advocacy initiative for today’s youth. This free PBL curriculum resource is an engaging and interactive curriculum tailored for grades K-12, focusing on climate change education.
In this engaging and influential program, youth will:
Learn about global climate and environmental problems, including the plastic trash crisis, pollution and its effects, the shortage of fresh water, and other health threats.
Discover how these problems affect their communities.
Explore how their personal choices affect the environment.
Create a proposal to solve a problem related to climate change or the environment in their community.
Present the proposal to experts.
Present the final version of their proposal to their peers at a culminating event
Climate Our Future is an award-winning video experience that educates young people on the science of climate change and empowers them to take action.
The lessons in this collection, originally published on TeachableMoment, aim to give K-12 teachers ideas and options for teaching on a range of climate change and related environmental issues, from the basic facts and specific climate crises to climate injustice and climate refugees.
Students will be able to determine the central ideas of a video about youth mobilization on plastic waste in the Amazon rainforest, analyze the causes of plastic pollution globally and make local connections, and use persuasive writing and visual arts skills to inspire change in their own communities
Learn more about why education is key to turning the tide and creating a safe sustainable world for generations to come in The Climate Reality Project’s latest fact sheet, Climate Science Belongs in the Classroom.
This activity engages students in examining evidence of global warming throughout the globe.
This resource offers climate change lesson plans for grades K – 12.
NASA’s Climate Kids offers content, links to games, and a discussion guide for teachers to present the evidence for climate change throughout the planet.
NASA’s Earth Math is a mathematical guide to earth science and climate change.