Interdisciplinary Teaching Ideas on Climate for All Subjects & Grade Levels
A reader on our website suggested we mention a recent article that focuses on ways to avoid and address curriculum-related trauma and includes many useful resources for educators. (The term ‘curriculum violence’ is used to call attention to the fact Read More
‘The Green New Deal and Our Schools’. Rethinking Schools, Summer 2019. ‘Solar Power Comes to Math Class‘. Rethinking Schools, Summer 2019. Books Bill McKibben. Falter: Is the Human Game Beginning to Play Itself Out? Macmillan (2019). David Wallace-Wells. The Uninhabitable Earth – Read More
Teachers: don’t forget to include positive stories, poetry, and art as part of your classroom! The recent article, ‘Environmental Storytelling‘ tells us that, instead of discouragement, ‘stories with positive role models and which focus on the positive outcomes of solutions Read More
A few new resources you might find useful: Being the Change: Live Well and Spark a Climate Revolution, by Peter Kalmus. New Society Publishers, 2017. Arctic Report Card 2017. NOAA [National Oceanic & Atmospheric Administration]. Short Video [3:36] on YouTube Read More
Two new resources for those helping students explore the impacts of global warming & climate change: Fourth National Climate Assessment – stand-alone report of the state of science relating to climate change and its physical impacts, prepared by the U.S. Global Change Read More
The new Climate Science Special Report confirms what most people have known for years: that climate change is happening, that it’s largely the result of human activity, and the impacts will be critical. (Catastrophic might be a better word.) The Read More
Another great issue from Rethinking Schools! This title article shows that even primary students can understand that climate deniers are wrong. Check out the magazine and A People’s Curriculum for the Earth… We have a duty to provide safe spaces for Read More
This article gives some great examples of what artists can do to help people feel the reality of climate change, in drawing, painting, murals, and performance art. “These Artists Are Trying to Make Climate Change Visceral – Ten people turning Read More