”Climate change is no longer some far-off problem; it is happening here, it is happening now.” Barack Obama on Climate Change President of the United States of America
Link to Climate Solutions
A solutions approach to climate change education
How to Save the Earth by the Lorax
Nature-Action Québec is pleased to present the project Climate change and me! The project aims to increase knowledge and encourage young people to learn about various phenomenons related to climate change.
We hope these capsules will teach you more about climate change and positively influence your lifestyle to help reduce greenhouse gas production and limit climate change.
We also offer four bonus scientific experiments in addition to the multiple experiments that are found in the videos and that you can redo at home. You can even test your new knowledge by answering the three questions available after each episode!
Easy to navigate with Evidence, Causes, Effects and Solutions.
A reliable source with up-to-date information.
Empowering Learners in a Warming World
Climate change inquiry guides
Climate Learning K-2
Climate Learning 3-6
Climate Learning 7-12
Essential Guide to teaching Climate Change
Check out page 6 where there is a guide to age appropriate action for grades k-6.
Student Guide to the Climate Crisis covers the emotions of climate change, the basic facts and a large section on how to take local action.
Click the image to access the downloadable PDF.
Climate change inquiry guide for 7-12 Educators
The purpose of this guide is to present opportunities to evolve students’ understanding of the climate and climate change, assess the risks and opportunities to mitigate and adapt to the changing climate, unpack ethical dimensions, and honour emotions that are part of the process of coming to understand the complexity and urgency of the issue.
Climate Change Curriculum Stages
Climate change curriculum broken down into Grades 1-2, 4 to 6, 7 to 9, and 10-12. Organized in topics of weather and climate, influence of weather and climate, human influence on climate, climate change impact, the response to climate change-social and technical.
The 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, adopted by all United Nations Member States in 2015, provides a shared blueprint for peace and prosperity for people and the planet, now and into the future. At its heart are the 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), which are an urgent call for action by all countries – developed and developing – in a global partnership. They recognize that ending poverty and other deprivations must go hand-in-hand with strategies that improve health and education, reduce inequality, and spur economic growth – all while tackling climate change and working to preserve our oceans and forests.
Planning Placemat Learning Through Action
ADST Careers Kits-reflecting SDG’s
Mason Bee House
Pollinator Box’s
Looming and Donating
Water Filtration
Bird Feeders
The Worlds leading resource for Climate Solutions
Project Drawdown is a global research organization that identifies, reviews, and analyzes the most viable solutions to climate change, and shares these findings with the world.
Consider how you can take a solutions based approach to Climate Change utilizing this amazing resource.
Teacher’s climate guide is an education package for subject teachers. It explains climate change in the context of each school subject, and provides exercises and visual material. It also contains tips for multidisciplinary climate education, tips for integrating climate change in education and activities at the primary level, and basic information about climate change and climate education.
The Gaia Project nurtures students’ natural curiosity and intelligence through inquiry-based projects about energy, waste, water, transportation and sustainability.
Gaia’s student-led approach is meaningful and memorable, instilling in youth a sense of agency and autonomy to take action in their schools, homes and communities. It also fosters the 21st-century skills that help our young people learn and grow as citizens. The action-based projects inspire them to develop practical responses to the here and now and be part of a sustainable energy future.
An wealth of climate focused resources for students. It includes inquiry guides and slide shows.
Topics include:
- Forests (old growth, fires, regional)
- Food
- Oceans
- Climate Change
- Arctic
- Salmon
- Space
- Artic
- Dinosaurs
Climate change Educators -Community Hub
Are you a teacher, professor, curriculum developer, school administrator, or environmental educator? If so this is a great platform to find high quality teaching materials, share your knowledge with other educators, and discuss the successes and challenges you face in climate change education.
A detailed kit of lessons to support Climate Action and engage students around the COP26-meeting. Included within this pack are all the resources you will need to introduce and reinforce the significance of climate change, COP26 and the role of schools in shaping the future, with customized age-appropriate resources provided for different age groups from 7-16.
Full kits available for:
- Ages 5-7
- Ages 7-9
- Ages 9-11
- Ages 11+
Talking Climate Change
Talking Climate change-Handbook. How to have a conversation about climate change in your daily life.
Talking about climate change, especially beyond the green bubble, is hard. That’s why we’ve produced an evidence-based, practical guide to help make those conversations easier and more meaningful – and to come out of them feeling inspired and connected.
Decoding Carbon:
Grades: 10-12, BC/Canadian content
A Climate Policy Quest explores how policy is used to build a low carbon future. Developed with support from Environment and Climate Change Canada, this program aims to empower youth to become informed and active citizens for tackling climate change.
Sample of some of the lesson plans and activities included in the FREE program:
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HOW IS CLIMATE CHANGE SHAPING THIS WORLD?
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GLOBAL IMPACTS OF CLIMATE CHANGE
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WHAT ROLE CAN POLICY PLAY IN BUILDING A LOW CARBON FUTURE?
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HOW DOES CANADA CONTRIBUTE TO GLOBAL GHG EMISSIONS?
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WHAT ROLE CAN CANADA PLAY IN GLOBAL CLIMATE ACTION?
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WHAT MAKES A GOOD CLIMATE CHANGE POLICY?CLIMATE CHANGE POLICY AND INDIGENOUS RELATIONS
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Climate Change
Lessons & Activities
A handful of ready to use lessons and activities on the energy cycles and greenhouse gases, geared towards grades 7-12. All aligned with the current BC curriculum.
Teacher Guide and Class Set
Recommended Age: Grade 8
Each book in ISSUES 21 is built upon an inquiry framework with three main components: an essential question, a sequence of instruction that provides modeling, mentoring, and monitoring; and a culminating writing activity. Students are introduced to the topic via an open-ended inquiry question. Students are challenged to investigate, analyze, and demonstrate knowledge of the real-world issues.
NOTE: all ISSUES 21 resources are booked through the LRC OR your Teacher Librarian.
Citizen’s Coolkit on Climate Change & Urban Forestry
The Neighbourhood Urban Forestry Coolkit is a visual and fun guide for people to engage with family, friends, and neighbours on issues and solutions related to urban forestry and climate change on their block. Created locally by UBC gradute students.
Since 2008, more than half of the world’s population is living in urbanized areas. In cities, people consider green spaces as an important indicator of their living environment and quality of life, given their values and services such as shading in a hot summer day or beautifying a street nearby.
This amazing kit provides a full set of lessons to explore trees on your local school ground and local school neighbourhood.
Lessons include: Mapping, measuring, and experiential observations.
Consider: The city of Courtenay has an active Urban Forest Plan in place, it s encouraged to get a hold of the city planner to see how they might be able to support your lessons and student learning.
Contact the SD71’s Environmental and Outdoor Leaning Teacher for help with local field trip suggestions and speakers to compliment these lessons. serina.allison@sd71.bc.ca
Circular Economy Lessons & Resources
To accelerate the transition to a circular economy, the Ellen MacArthur Foundation works across five areas to bring positive economic change on a global level. Engaging with decision makers from government, business and academia, the Foundation aims to inspire and transmit circular economy thinking through insights & analysis, learning activities, and collaborative business opportunities.
Design Thinking for a Circular Economy
A ppt to walk you through the Design Thinking process for a Circular Economy and linking it to the UN Sustainability Goals.
Resources for Rethinking provides immediate access to more than 1000 quality classroom resources. It connects teachers to lesson plans, books, videos and other materials that explore the environmental, social and economic dimensions of important issues and events unfolding in our world today. This resources has been reviewed by experienced classroom teachers and matched to relevant curriculum outcomes for each province and territory. Use the search engine to find resources and read the reviews. Most of these materials can be downloaded immediately.
Be The Change Earth Alliance is a Vancouver-based charitable organization that empowers individual and collective change for a resilient, just, connected, and sustainable world. We provide interactive educational programming that engages citizens in understanding their role in fostering global sustainability solutions.
Be The Change Earth Alliance currently fulfills our mandate through providing
(FREE) curriculum resources, professional development and capacity building opportunities for teachers and students, and environmental education services to schools, school districts, and municipalities.
Click HERE to register and have FULL access to all their online resources
Grade Level: 11-12
Understanding Food and Climate Change: A Systems Perspective explores the links between food systems and our changing climate with an emphasis on systems thinking. A systems approach helps to illuminate how seemingly disconnected phenomena are often dynamically linked and can be understood best when viewed in a larger context. This collection of essays contains an extensive bibliography that provides resources for further investigation.
Cool It! empowers young sustainability champions in the region to learn about climate change and how to take action, and supports teachers to deliver climate education activities through the provided teachers guide.
- engaging 90 minute workshop in your classroom
- 4-week challenge
- prizes and certificates
- winning class in the region will receive a celebration!
The program is free for classes, thanks to generous support by the Comox Valley Regional District, and is linked to the BC curriculum. We are taking bookings for Fall now, please email cool-it@bcsea.org for more information or to register.
Lessons for Transformation
The Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives and the BC Teachers’ Federation have teamed up to create free classroom-ready materials that help students engage with the two great inconvenient truths of our time: climate change and rising inequality. Consisting of eight modules designed for students in grades 8 to 12 (adaptable for intermediate), the package explores climate justice within the context of BC’s communities, history, economy and ecology.
Climate Change Resource
A online database with teaching resources related to climate change and that are relevant to the BC K-12 curriculum.
Climate Education
Free online education programs about climate change and empower students to create positive change.
Climate Change Adaptation
For grades 6 to 9 for classes in a variety of disciplines. This lesson plan encourages students to think about climate change adaptation and mitigation through a variety of activities that teachers can choose from, from simpler activities like a value line, to a major final project where students create their own exhibit on climate change.
Climate Atlas of Canada
Combines climate Science and story telling to bring the global issue of climate change closer to home for Canadians.
Treepedia
As cities around the world race to implement green canopy strategies, we’ve developed a metric—the Green View Index—by which to evaluate and compare canopy cover. In collaboration with the World Economic Forum’s Global Agenda Council on the Future of Cities and the World Economic Forum’s Global Shapers community, we will continue to grow this database to span cities all over the globe. Click the image to explore the green canopy tool.
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