Looking for resources to help amplify your climate change lesson plans? We've got you covered! Find resources below on research articles, climate change educational tools, and visuals/videos for your lesson plans.
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Supporting Youth Leadership in Schools
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Climate Education in the Classroom
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Visuals and Videos
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We (AYCL) work to help bring climate to the classroom! Please reach out to have us work directly with students or teachers, lead En-ROADS climate interactive, have us work with organizations, spread the word about eco-events youth can participate in, and much more!
The National Standards for Secondary Education and Transition provides definitions for what youth leadership and youth development are. Find recommendations for how to promote youth leadership in communities, schools and families.
This article by Rehm (2014) from the Journal of Leadership Education explores how to educate and develop youth leadership in middle and high school.
Carmen Santiago Lesson Plan gives students a chance to pick a climate issue they're most interested in and work on a solution to that issue.
Climate Interactive offers free simulation tools to use in your classroom to create conversations around climate impacts and solutions.
The Climate Literacy and Energy Awareness Network provides free lesson plans, activities, webinars and workshops, and teaching tips and guides. Spanish translations are also offered for most resources!
EarthX has a compilation of virtual 5 to 10 minute field trips, exploring climate solutions. The virtual field trips are suitable for any grade, K-12.
iPlan is a free tool that allows students to simulate the urban and regional planning process, including assessment environmental impacts.
The North American Association for Environmental Education offers guidelines on working with environmental education in the classroom and in non-formal settings. Check out their website for a variety of guidelines, including K-12 and early childhood.
Skeptical Science offers a table with facts, myths, fallacies and follow-up videos to address aspects of climate change science.
The Wild Center has great resources for integrating climate education into your classroom, including links to climate science/research, ideas for lessons, news sites, and additional resources.
AYCL has created lesson plans that we can lead for your class, or you can teach to your own class. Here are two, with videos highlighting how the lesson plan was intended to go. Feel free to edit them, and reach out if you want us to guest lecture for you on these, or other topics. (sustainability video and powerpoint) (climate proxies video and powerpoint)
Through Climate Toolbox, educators can use visuals to show past and projected climate change data.
An inspiring spoken-word poem about climate change out of #Film4Climate may help introduce the topic.
The New York Times gives ways to teach about climate change using their data and graphs.
Visme offers climate change facts via eye-catching visuals and infographics.
XKCD has a timeline of earth's average temperatures, created with humor in mind.
If you would like personalized lesson plans based off of any of these or additional resources, we're here to help! Contact us at [email protected]