"It is clear that a failure to address climate change is a failure to protect children."
—David Bull, UNICEF UK Director
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Thank you for your interest in teaching your students about climate change!
Luckily there are many- almost too many - resources for teachers. On this page I hope I will be able to give you a bit of an overview over some of the more interesting and important websites. I'd be happy for input - please send it to me at maikenfor350 (at) gmail.com. Thanks!
For general materials please see here.
For scientififc background information please see here.
Here you will find:
- Information specifically for teachers
- projects for schools; please also see projects for kids
If you know German, you can also find information here.
A great resoruce for exchange of general teaching resources among all European schools is at ICT.
General Info for and exchange among teachers: teachers corner.
Global Climate Change Websites at ClimateChangeNorth.
Have kids plaz with climate models to better understand what factors have which efefcts.---> Playing with climate models
The Alliance for Climate Education is working with students around the country to deepen their awareness about climate change and promote strategies for reducing greenhouse gas emissions.
Climate Choices - Children's Voices is aimed at teachers of children aged 9-11 years ( UK years 5 and 6) who want to help children begin to understand the challenging and complex issue of climate change.
ClimateClassroom.org helps educate children about global climate change in accurate, developmentally appropriate, and hopeful ways. Sections designed for parents and K-12 educators provide talking points, attractive visuals, instructional guidelines, and helpful resource links for investigating the topic with children. An additional section for school-age children offers quality learning experiences and realistic suggestions for becoming part of the global-warming solution. Links to webpages for teachers: National Wildlife Federation
The Cloud Institute equips school systems K-12 and their communities with the core content, competencies and habits of mind that characterize education for a sustainable future. We do this by inspiring teachers and engaging students through meaningful content and student-centered instruction.
Inspiring young people to think about the world, their relationship to it, and their ability to influence it in an entirely new way.
Pupils need wide competencies to meet the challenges of sustainable development - including climate change. The CO2nnect activities are designed to support learning that can provide pupils with abilities, skills, attitudes and awareness as well as knowledge and understanding of the issues.
Cool The Earth is a ready-to-run program that educates K-8 students and their families about global warming and inspires them to take simple actions to reduce their carbon emissions. The program is successful because it’s fun and empowering for the kids, and their enthusiasm is contagious!
Academic Modules—featuring teaching notes by the authors of CFR publications—are designed to assist educators in creating or supplementing a course syllabus. The modules are customized packages built around a primary CFR text, such as a book or report, and include teaching notes; additional readings; video, audio, and transcripts of CFR meetings; Foreign Affairs articles; and other online resources. Use of these modules is free of charge. They may be used in part or in their entirety.
Started in 1994, EcoKids is a free, environmental education program that offers curriculum-linked materials and activities for Canadian elementary schools to engage in environmental action. Our award-winning EcoKids web site -- the centrepiece of the program -- is an interactive environmental web site for children, their families, and educators in Canada and around the world. It offers topical information about the environment through interactive, fun, educational games and activities that utilize participants' willingness to learn. Children are encouraged to form their own opinions, make decisions, get involved and understand the impact their own actions have on the environment. Designed to inspire children to become life-long environmental stewards, EcoKids is an invaluable resource for educators, youth group leaders and parents.
GLOBE (Global Learning and Observations to Benefit the Environment) is a worldwide hands-on, primary and secondary school-based science and education program. GLOBE's vision promotes and supports students, teachers and scientists to collaborate on inquiry-based investigations of the environment and the Earth system working in close partnership with NASA and NSF Earth System Science Projects (ESSPs) in study and research about the dynamics of Earth's environment.
The Go Green Initiative is a simple, comprehensive program designed to create a culture of environmental responsibility on school campuses across the nation. Founded in 2002, the Go Green Initiative unites parents, students, teachers and school administrators in an effort to make real and lasting changes in their campus communities that will protect children and the environment for years to come.
A wonderful book for kids and adults on climate change.
" This is a necessary book. It treats kids with respect--they deserve to know what's going on. But they also deserve to know that there's much that can be done and much that is being done. In a word, It's empowering!"
Bill McKibben, author of The End of Nature
Earth Day Network's Climate Change Solutions Campaign is a three year global campaign to educate and motivate all levels of the global community including k-12 and college students, governments, corporations, and religious institutions.
Climate Change is Elementary™ is intended to help schools and families to begin to take meaningful action toward understanding and solving the Climate Crisis.
We are a volunteer organization. Most of us are either docents and interns at California science centers and museums. Or... students, scientists and staff at the University of California, Berkeley.. Hands-on science demonstrations is our specialty--our principle contribution to the body of original educational material. An example is the
Global Warming Discovery Demo -- a favorite at science centers and museums, in K 12 schools, UC classes, and at large community events. Much of our work is bridge-building, encouraging partnerships in education. The California Catalog is a web version of this.
Advancing Environmental Literacy
Climate change is a serious and real threat to children's well being. In many areas of the world children's lives are being disrupted by the shifts in temperatures and increasingly severe weather conditions. Today, they are few areas of the world that are not being impacted by climate change and these changes can also have a significant impact on a child's ability to attend school. Very sadly severe climate changes may also support conditions that impact a child's ability to survive.
The new Climate Change, Wildlife and Wildlands Toolkit for Formal and Informal Educators is an update of the popular, award-winning Climate Change, Wildlife and Wildlands Toolkit for Teachers and Interpreters. The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, in partnership with seven other federal agencies 1, developed the kit for classroom teachers and informal educators in parks, refuges, forest lands, nature centers, zoos, aquariums, science centers, etc., to teach middle school students about how climate change is affecting our nation's wildlife and public lands and how everyone, even kids, can become “climate stewards”.
Climate Choices - Children's Voices is aimed at teachers of children aged 9-11 years ( UK years 5 and 6) who want to help children begin to understand the challenging and complex issue of climate change. Action to tackle climate change is urgent; the world's poorest people are suffering. This is not inevitable, and through this site children can discover that personal action can make a difference. In addition to introducing climate change, the site looks at how food choices impact on climate change and how climate change is affecting food supply. A range of resources, including video clips, presentations, games and worksheet-based activities are provided for you to use as appropriate.
Environmental Education to Inspire the Next Generation of Leaders. The National Wildlife Federation (NWF) is committed to creating age and developmentally appropriate curricula to educate high school students about the causes of and remedies for global warming. NWF recently partnered with the former Vice President Al Gore and the makers of the award-winning film An Inconvenient Truth (AIT) to bring the issue of climate change from the big screen to the classroom. NWF was pleased to assist as project advisors, curriculum developers and faculty for The Climate Project Training Program.
Educational information by the ecological society
Discover the wonders of nature - a project from the National Wildlife federation
IEcology.
This has nothing directly to do with climate change. But it's a great site to inspire kids about the amazing world of plants.
The Keystone Center is a non-profit organization founded in 1975 to ensure that present and future generations approach environmental and scientific dilemmas and disagreements creatively and proactively. By way of its education and public policy programs, The Keystone Center improves decisions about long-term issues by helping thought-leaders, teachers, students, and decision-makers effectively address technically complex and politically uncertain situations.
Help kids learn about and love nature by promoting gardening.
An online learning community designed to bring scientists, students and teachers from around the world together to communicate, collaborate, and contribute towards solutions to global climate change.
We are on a journey to inspire children and their families to discover and adopt healthy lifestyles through proper nutrition and exercise while motivating them to actively learn about themselves and the environment. Through hands-on, science-based activities, we encourage kids to become energetic & engaged, build a strong knowledge-base and develop the measurable lifetime skills necessary to lead healthy lives and make informed decisions.
We believe that the best youth development occurs where kids are actively involved in creating their own learning experience with their friends and family. We believe that the support of family and friends is crucial for success. We encourage parents and mentors to take a proactive approach toward the health and well-being of children and support them by offering resource material, tools, training and opportunities to network with experts and like-minded individuals.
By introducing children to the joy and wonders of nature in an informal and entertaining academic environment, we strive to enable children to internalize the knowledge, skills and values they need to build confidence in themselves and become contributing members of their community.
The objective of the Global Education Website is to increase the amount and quality of teaching of global education in Australian primary and secondary schools.
The site supports the AusAID Global Education Program which aims to raise awareness and understanding among Australian school students of international issues, development and poverty, and to prepare them to live in an increasingly globalised world and to be active citizens shaping better futures.
The strategy of the project is to provide an Internet Site and curriculum material that is of high professional standard, is attractive, teacher friendly; and accessible.
Through the formal education system, AusAID’s Global Education Program aims to raise awareness of development issues, and Australia’s overseas aid program, with young people.
In Australian schools, global education is a cross-curricular perspective that is concerned with understanding:
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international development issues and ways to reduce poverty,
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peace-building and resolving conflict,
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appreciating and valuing diverse cultures, languages and religions,
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promoting human rights and social justice, and
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working towards environmental sustainability.
The American Mathematical Society, the American Statistical Association, the Mathematical Association of America, and the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics announce that the theme for Mathematics Awareness Month, April 2009, is Mathematics and Climate.
Give kids the power of knowledge about their world. My Wonderful World is a National Geographic-led campaign—backed by a coalition of national business and non-profit organizations—to expand geographic learning in school, at home, and in communities. We want to give kids the power of global knowledge.
NASA's Education Materials Finder will help teachers locate resources that can be used in the classroom. Users may search by keywords, grade level, product type and subject. With hundreds of publications and Web sites indexed, the finder is the best way to locate NASA educational resources.
Sprout is an e-course for young people who want to grow their social or environmental project idea and learn to create lasting change that takes root in their communities. Sprout exists to help make this process simpler, more practical and less intimidating by guiding you through the project management process step-by-step.
There are currently 3 areas being covered - the earth, Middle East, and Acient Egypt.
Tide Global learning.
Tide~ global learning … a network of teachers and educators coming together to respond to the educational challenges of global dimensions, development perspectives and human rights principles.
Resources for schools on rainforest protection with videos, life webcams, fun activities and much more.
Further links are here.
Cloud Institute
Cool the Earth.
Council on Foreign Affairs. 
How we know what we know about climate change
ClimateChangeIsElementary
NOAA Education..
Climate Change, Wildlife, and Wildlands Toolkit
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