Climate Education Resource Page

CLIMATE EDUCATION RESOURCES

 

Skills and standards

• Guidelines for Excellence: Educating for Climate Action and Justice

• Climate Literacy Guide 

• Inner Development Goals

• Transformative Skills Guide

• STEM Teaching Tools Climate Learning

 

Teaching solutions

• En ROADS (Climate Solutions Simulation Dashboard) - An online simulator for policymakers, educators, businesses, the media, and the public to test various climate solutions.

• DRAWDOWN (Climate Solutions) - A leading resource for global climate solutions.

• All We Can Save (Essays and Poetry around the Climate Crisis) - An anthology of essays, poetry, and art for climate solutions.

• What if We Get it Right? - A book that considers inspiring climate futures.

• Gaia Scholastic Climate Education Resources

• The Zinn Education Project

 

Climate and mental health 

• Climate Mental Health Network Resources - A coalition of community advocates creating space and resources to address the impact of climate change on mental well-being. 

• Climate Emotions Wheel - A tool to help bring awareness to emotions around climate change.

• Climate Emotions Toolkit for Educators (NEEF) - A teacher-tested resource for middle school educators addressing student emotions related to climate change.

• Social and emotional learning toolkit - This toolkit includes activities, templates and tools organized around four ways to help support staff and youth in SEL.

 

Data in the classroom

• Climate Change: Vital Signs of the Planet (NASA)  - NASA’s daily updates on climate data.

• Climate.Gov  - NOAA’s data, tools, and information to help people prepare for a changing climate.

• Climate.us  -  The nonprofit successor to Climate.gov, delivering climate data and information to promote public climate literacy and to equip people to turn knowledge into meaningful conversations and climate-conscious actions. 

• Yale Climate Opinion Maps  - Social science data on American’s beliefs and attitudes on climate change. 

• Climate Explorer - Built to accompany the U.S. Climate Resilience Toolkit,  this tool has graphs and maps of observed and projected temperature, precipitation, and other climate variables for every county in the continental U.S.

• Greenhouse Gas Inventory Data Explorer  - A tool to visualize greenhouse gases by industrial sector.

• ClimateCentral Resource Library - A library of graphics for your classroom, including local data for large metropolitan areas in each state.

• NOAA Data Mysteries - NERRs educators and ecologists assembled these mysteries based on actual events. Each mystery contains background information and recommended data to use in the data-graphing tool(opens in a new tab).

 

Data visualization and climate art

• Climate Stripes

• Climate Spirals

• 3 Millimeters by Greg Kahn 

• Earth.nullschool.net 

• Artist Jill Pelto

• Climate Change Science in Haiku by Gregory Johnson

• Temperature Anomalies by Country, 1880 to 2017

• The Tempestry Project 

• The Climate Ribbon Tree Project

 

Regional climate education

• Education for Climate Action - A blog examining local climate education for action resources, going beyond a quick activity or lesson.

• Bay BackPack Climate Meaningful Watershed Educational Experience Examples - Educational experiences that center climate change.

• Climate and Resilience Education Task Force in New York

• Subject to Climate 

• NJ SEEDS (State Environmental Education Directory)

• Rutgers Climate and Energy Institute Climate Education Resources

 

Youth Leadership & Action

• Youth Climate Institute - An organization certifying the next generation of leaders in climate science and environmental justice.

• Climate Action Venn Diagram by Dr. Ayana Elizabeth Johnson to help students and/or classrooms discover the best climate action to take based on their interests & strengths

• Earth Force and its Youth Adult Partnership model

• The Wild Center’s Youth Climate Program

• The Seal of Climate Literacy: A High School Diploma Endorsement

• Mass Audubon Youth Climate Leadership Program

 

District-level support

• Prince George’s Public Schools Climate Action Plan - Prince George’s County’s plan reviews how the school system can lessen its impact on the environment and become more climate resilient.

• UndauntedK12 Climate Toolkit - A toolkit to assist school board members in driving climate solutions and collaborating with students and the community for climate action plans in their districts.

  • Lost Learning Days - A map showing school closures caused by extreme weather from 2021 to 2025. Report Maryland climate-connected lost learning days here.

 

Climate Education Policy

• The Climate Education Policy Toolkit: your guide to navigating the dynamic landscape of state and local climate education policy. Whether you're a climate professional, legislator, educator, student, young adult, parent, or just a concerned individual, the resources within this Toolkit are designed to help you instigate change in a way that is tailored to suit your specific community needs.

• State Profiles: Climate Education Policy

• Coalition for Climate Education Policy

 

Individual Impact Calculators

• Calculator and tools comparing climate impact of different foods

• Microplastics Exposure Calculator- Body Burden is an independent educational tool that estimates how many microplastic particles a person consumes and inhales each week, based on their lifestyle habits. Every figure in the calculator is derived from peer-reviewed research published in peer-reviewed scientific journals. 

 

Big Picture Concepts

• Population Connection- Viewing climate and overconsumption issues from the perspective of population growth. Excellent  data visualizations, resources, and more! Topics are often broken into sub categories, such as “population and climate vulnerability”.

  •  Educating girls is one of the most effective ways to slow population growth!

• Fashion & Climate change: an engaging topic that almost everyone can relate to. Fashion is the second most pollution industry on earth!