Climate Change Education Resource Hub

This landing page is meant to be a living, breathing space that grows and evolves as more resources become available. Take a look around!

Activity books

• Teaching Kids About Climate Change by Green Teacher
• Teaching Teens About Climate Change by Green Teacher

Frameworks for climate change education (PDFs)

• Roadmap To Excellent Climate Change Education (Alberta Council for Environmental Education):  https://www.abcee.org/sites/default/files/ACEE_Roadmaptoexcellent_climatechangeeducation.pdf
• What is Excellent Climate Change Education? (Alberta Council for Environmental Education): https://www.abcee.org/what-excellent-climate-change-education

Games

• Solutions: The Game: https://solutionsthegame.com/

Podcasts

• Talking with Green Teachers: The Environmental Education Podcast (regular episodes on climate change education from Green Teacher): https://podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/talking-green-teachers-environmental-education-podcast/id1547617440 or wherever you get your podcasts
• What On Earth (CBC): https://podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/what-on-earth/id1520725103 or wherever you get your podcasts

Recorded presentations

• 3 strategies for effectively talking about climate change with John Marshall (TED): https://www.ted.com/talks/john_marshall_3_strategies_for_effectively_talking_about_climate_change#t-7630
• How to transform apocalypse fatigue into action on global warming with Per Espen Stoknes (TED): https://www.ted.com/talks/per_espen_stoknes_how_to_transform_apocalypse_fatigue_into_action_on_global_warming?language=en#t-886028
• The most important thing you can do to fight climate change: talk about it with Katherine Hayhoe (TEDWomen 2018): https://www.ted.com/talks/katharine_hayhoe_the_most_important_thing_you_can_do_to_fight_climate_change_talk_about_it

Scholarship

• Bonnett, Michael. (2002). Education for Sustainability as a Frame of Mind. Environmental Education Research – ENVIRON EDUC RES. 8. 9-20. 10.1080/13504620120109619.
• Eaton, Emily M. & Day, Nick A. (2020). Petro-pedagogy: fossil fuel interests and the obstruction of climate justice in public education. Environmental Education Research, 26:4, 457-473. https://doi.org/10.1080/13504622.2019.1650164
• Hargis, Kristen & McKenzie, Marcia. (2020). Responding to Climate Change: A Primer for K-12 Education. The Sustainability and Education Policy Network, Saskatoon, Canada. (https://sepn.ca/resources/report-responding-to-climate-change-education-a-primer-for-k-12-education/)
• Lawson, D.F., Stevenson, K.T., Peterson, M.N. et al. (2019). Children can foster climate change concern among their parents. Nat. Clim. Chang. 9, 458–462. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41558-019-0463-3
• Wynes S, Nicholas KA. (2019). Climate science curricula in Canadian secondary schools focus on human warming, not scientific consensus, impacts or solutions. PLoS ONE 14(7): e0218305. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0218305

Websites and online programs

• An Existential Toolkit for Climate Justice Educators: https://www.existentialtoolkit.com/
• Climate Education Reform BC (CERBC): https://www.climateeducationreformbc.ca/
• Climate Solutions (The King’s University): https://climatesolutions.kcvs.ca/
• Decoding Carbon (GreenLearning): https://programs.greenlearning.ca/decoding-carbon
• Draw Down, Act Up! (from Inside the Greenhouse): https://insidethegreenhouse.org/content/draw-down-act
• The Monitoring and Evaluating Climate Communication and Education (MECCE) Project Regional Hub network (SEPN): https://sepn.ca/wp-content/uploads/2021/05/About-MECCEs-Regional-Hubs-2021-05-25-1.pdf
• Planetary Boundaries (The King’s University): https://planetaryboundaries.kcvs.ca/
• Project Drawdown: https://drawdown.org/
• Project Regeneration: https://regeneration.org/