Is climate change good for us?
An activity for exploring how changes in climate could affect daily life and influence the economy of a region.
From the book "Teaching About Climate Change"
Posts tagged ‘climate change’
Apr 30
Counting the real costs of cars
An activity for high school students and adults
From "Teaching About Climate Change"
The Clean Air Game
A fun, active outdoor game for helping students visualize how human activities enhance the natural greenhouse effect.
FROM: TEACHING ABOUT CLIMATE CHANGE
The Carbon Dioxide Game
A fun, active outdoor game for helping students visualize how human activities enhance the natural greenhouse effect.
FROM GREEN TEACHER'S SPRING 2003 ISSUE
Apr 26
Rethinking Climate Change Education
Apart from teaching about climate change from a scientific perspective, developing attitudes and behaviors that will enable people to mitigate and adapt to climate change will require a holistic approach—the authors detail six important components which could form the basis for such an approach. (Appropriate for grades 7 and up)
Apr 26
Climate Change Education in Worcestershire Schools
Schools in Worcestershire county, England have been some of the most successful in the world in integrating climate change education into their curriculum. They used a Learning for Sustainability framework, which emphasizes a combination of outdoor learning, critical thinking, and creative responses.
Apr 26
Climate Change Treasure Hunt
An engaging, awareness-raising activity for grades 4-10 in which students learn about the positive and negative impacts on climate change of various things and places on school campuses and at nature centres and other sites. Young people are given the opportunity to think of ways of using or doing these things differently to reduce their environmental impact.
Unleashing Blessed Unrest As the Heating Happens (Activities)
Originally appears in the Fall 2011 issue
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Apr 5
Climántica: A Web 2.0 Education Project
A large, innovative climate change learning project in Spain uses online technologies to widely disseminate curriculum units and host an interactive exchange of student-led lessons and ideas.
Apr 5
Climate Change Summits for Teens
How partnering with university faculty to host climate change summits for teens in New Jersey has motivated students to educate their own communities.
