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Climate Change for Environmental Educators
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Teaching Climate Change . . .
                   with existing Project WET,  Project Wild, Project LearningTree activities

 
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Are you already a Project WET-, Project Wild- or Project Learning Tree-certified Educator? If so, you have some climate change education tools at your fingertips.

​Here is the climate change correlation that shows all relevant, existing activities in the three curriculum guides (with links to a few bonus activities that anyone can access).
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               with new Project WET, Project WILD and Project LearningTree Climate Curricula 

Project WET's
Climate Water and Resilience 

Completion of a Climate, Water and Resilience workshop is required to obtain the curriculum guide. Online training and the curriculum are available together for $65 here. Sample lessons from "Climate Water and Resilience" are available here. "Using Project WET to Teach Climate Resilience" pdf free here.

Project WILD's
​Climate & Wildlife

The Climate and Wildlife curriculum guide is available for $19.68 here and the corresponding online training is available for $20 here. There is also a special offer for free online Climate and Wildlife training for K-12 teachers and college professors in fall of 2022, here. 

PLT's Carbon & Climate;
SE Forest and Climate Change​

The Southeastern Forest and Climate Change e-unit, including 14 activities for high school students, is theoretically available for free, without a workshop, here (though may be out of stock). The Carbon and Climate e-unit for middle grades is $25 without training or $40 with training, here.

PRACTICES

 STEM Practice Briefs on How to Teach about Climate Change

          Dig Deeply Into the Science 
Students deserve to have a scientific understanding of climate change based on observing and examining lines of evidence. Although standards may fragment climate change concepts, an interdisciplinary approach and systems thinking is needed.

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     Explore Disproportionate Impacts
Climate change affects some communities more than others. Use local phenomena to study disproportionate impacts and to examine why  vulnerable populations are  impacted. Structured Academic Controversy is a way to teach students how to think, not what to think.

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​    Focus on Solutions and Resilience
Teaching students about climate change in isolation can contribute to eco-anxieties and disengagement. But teaching climate change in combination with environmental stewardship  opportunities can improve student well-being and environmental outcomes.

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All Climate Learning Resources from STEM Teaching Tools

 
COMING SOON . . .
​EEA's Curated Collection of Climate Change Lesson Activities
​ -   Researching Climate Change Causes and Indicators from Evidence
 -   Investigating Climate Change Effects through Field Investigations
​ -   Exploring Climate Change's Disproportionate Impacts
      -   Heat Island Effect and the Legacy of Bank Redlining Practices
 -   Implementing Climate Change Solutions 

Materials and Resources for Teaching Climate Change
 -  Climate Change Curricula and Lesson Collections
​    -  Essential Principles of Climate Literacy with related lessons for each
    -  CLEAN: Climate Literacy and Energy Awareness Network lesson collection
    -  Purdue University Dynamics of Climate Educator Toolkit and companion materials
    -  NC State's Wildlife, Weather, Climate and Change
    -  National Geographic Climate Education
Instructional Strategies for Teaching Climate Change 
  -  Surveying Primary Sources and Evaluating Evidence
  -  Making and Using Models, Simulations and Algorithms
  -  Collecting Data
      -  Citizen / Participatory Science Projects related to Climate Change
           -  Project BudBurst (phenology)
           -  Journey North
           -  Symbolic Monarch Migration
  -  Analyzing and Interpreting Data
      -  Data Nuggets Climate Change modules
      -  Project WET climate data analysis activities
  -  Student-Directed Projects and Action
      -  Purdue's What Can I Do About Climate Change? poster series