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29 Mar 2021
Why 1°C Is a Big Deal

Why 1°C Is a Big Deal

Why understanding the link between small increases in the average temperature and severe climate change events is important

2 Apr 2020
The Art and Science of Teaching Climate Change

The Art and Science of Teaching Climate Change

In this webinar, educators will learn strategies to communicate climate change principles that can be applied to any classroom. Through practical, inquiry-focused activities, teachers will gain tools to navigate one of the most important environmental issues of our generation.

8 Nov 2019
Flight School

Flight School

Students creating a safe space for feathered friends

8 Nov 2019
Pollinating Hope

Pollinating Hope

Using a pollinator garden to galvanize an environmental club

8 Nov 2019
Animal Adaptations and  Climate Change

Animal Adaptations and Climate Change

A lesson plan for high school teachers

13 Feb 2018
Teaching Kids about Climate Change

Teaching Kids about Climate Change

Rather than overwhelm young people with the daunting challenges facing humanity, the book’s focus is to help them to appreciate the many solutions that individuals, organizations and governments are already implementing to mitigate climate change. The overall goal of the book is to introduce basic concepts and to help cultivate a sense of wonder about the natural world.

10 Sep 2015
Stories in the Data

Stories in the Data

What can elementary and middle school children learn about the world around them by looking at the numbers?

13 May 2013
Activity: Climate Change Denial

Activity: Climate Change Denial

Exploring the phenomenon of climate change denial, what lies behind it and the dangers it presents, and considering what might be done.
An activity from "Unleashing blessed unrest as the heating happens," Green Teacher 94, Fall 2011

13 May 2013
Activity: Weathering Climate Confusion

Activity: Weathering Climate Confusion

An activity from "Unleashing blessed unrest as the heating happens"
Clarifying the difference between climate and weather while alerting students to levels of public confusion about the two terms.

13 May 2013
Climate Change Despair and Empowerment Activity Sequence

Climate Change Despair and Empowerment Activity Sequence

An activity from "Unleashing blessed unrest as the heating happens"
Encouraging students to share their anxieties about climate change futures; helping them discover that others share their fears; fostering their disposition and readiness to take action.

13 May 2013
Activity: Guidebook for Survivors

Activity: Guidebook for Survivors

An activity from "Unleashing blessed unrest as the heating happens"
Students work within an imagined dystopian climate change scenario to develop a guidebook for climate change survivors. They then transform gloom into purposefulness and pro-activity by considering whether they and others could act on their guidebook now to avoid global warming, and to what effect.

12 May 2013
Going off-ramp: A car trip reduction plan for schools

Going off-ramp: A car trip reduction plan for schools

Any school group can use the off ramp framework to develop car trip reduction strategies suited to their community. The following are guidelines for planning and implementing a successful program. Excerpted from the book "Teaching About Climate Change"

30 Apr 2013
Is climate change good for us?

Is climate change good for us?

An activity for exploring how changes in climate could affect daily life and influence the economy of a region.
From the book "Teaching About Climate Change"

26 Apr 2013
Counting the real costs of cars

Counting the real costs of cars

An activity for high school students and adults
From "Teaching About Climate Change"

26 Apr 2013
The Clean Air Game

The Clean Air Game

A fun, active outdoor game for helping students visualize how human activities enhance the natural greenhouse effect.
FROM: TEACHING ABOUT CLIMATE CHANGE

26 Apr 2013
Rethinking Climate Change Education

Rethinking Climate Change Education

Apart from teaching about climate change from a scientific perspective, developing attitudes and behaviors that will enable people to mitigate and adapt to climate change will require a holistic approach—the authors detail six important components which could form the basis for such an approach. (Appropriate for grades 7 and up)

26 Apr 2013
Growing Behavior Change

Growing Behavior Change

Strategies for making positive changes in students’ behaviors and attitudes towards the environment, whether students are taught on a short- or long-term basis. (For all ages)

3 Apr 2013
Unleashing Blessed Unrest As the Heating Happens

Unleashing Blessed Unrest As the Heating Happens

How learning spaces can help to avoid the worst scenarios now before us for the heating of the planet, followed by four learning activities

31 Mar 2012
Climate Change and Regional Geography

Climate Change and Regional Geography

Climate change can bring an immediate and pressing relevance to the study of geography, coaxing new ideas out of worn textbooks.