Communicating About Climate Change
COMMUNICATION RESOURCES
Yale Program on Climate Change Communication | https://climatecommunication.yale.edu
- Climate Change Opinion Maps | https://climatecommunication.yale.edu/visualizations-data/ycom-us/
- Why We Should Care About Climate Chang | https://climatecommunication.yale.edu/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/Why-should-we-care-about-climate-change_LF_GC-final.pdf
- CLIMATE EXPLAINED: INTRODUCTORY ESSAYS ABOUT CLIMATE CHANGE TOPICS | https://climatecommunication.yale.edu/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/Climate-Explained-pdf16_tl_LF_GC-final-rcs.pdf
Jan 11, 2024 | Climate Change in the American Mind: Beliefs & Attitudes, Fall 2023 Executive Summary | https://climatecommunication.yale.edu/publications/climate-change-in-the-american-mind-beliefs-attitudes-fall-2023/toc/2/
Climate Education in the U.S.: Where It Stands, and Why It Matters from Columbia Climate School | https://news.climate.columbia.edu/2023/02/09/climate-education-in-the-u-s-where-it-stands-and-why-it-matters/
United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO)
UNESCO at COP28: Making education the long-term solution to the climate crisis | https://www.unesco.org/en/articles/unesco-cop28-making-education-long-term-solution-climate-crisis
How We Know What We Know: Advancing climate change education | https://climatechange.stanford.edu/news/how-we-know-what-we-know-advancing-climate-change-education
Teaching Students about Climate Change, ‘Just the Facts’ Isn’t Enough: Emotions and Pathways to Action_Scientific American | https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/to-teach-students-about-climate-change-lsquo-just-the-facts-rsquo-isn-rsquo-t-enough/
Climate Change in the American Mind: Beliefs & Attitudes, Fall 2023_ Yale Climate Communication | https://climatecommunication.yale.edu/about/projects/climate-change-in-the-american-mind/
Climate Mental Health Activity Guide from CLEAN (Committed to Climate & Energy Education) | https://cleanet.org/clean/literacy/tools/empowerment/climate_mental_health_activityguide.html
Office for Climate Education | Pedagogical resources
https://www.oce.global/en/resources
- Climate Science
- Class Activities (citizen sci – tree bodyguards, greenhouse effect & human activities)
- Videos (climate models, projections, UN climate change conferences, earth’s climate systems, pathways for mitigation, emotions related to CC, oceans & climate)
- Multimedia Activities (greenhouse effect)
- PD (from knowledge to action)
Columbia Climate School
- Climate Live K12 YouTube channel https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLPmPmV9ZCh-iBvA5MHfl5ykMVQFCYqGAS
- K-12 Materials / Lesson Plans https://iri.columbia.edu/k-12materials/
- Polar Curriculum & Outreach Lesson Plans https://www.ldeo.columbia.edu/edu/polareducation/
NASA
Climate Kids website - https://climatekids.nasa.gov/
Jet Propulsion Laboratory (California Institute of Technology)
- Climate Activities / Lesson Plans (searchable)
https://www.jpl.nasa.gov/edu/teach/tag/search/Climate+Change
Stanford School of Sustainability | Climate Change Education
- Middle & high school curriculum resources https://climatechange.stanford.edu/curriculum
CLEAN (Committed to Climate & Energy Education)
- Climate Mental Health Activity Guide https://cleanet.org/clean/literacy/tools/empowerment/climate_mental_health_activityguide.html
- Bringing Climate into your Classroom (Guide & Lessons by Topic) https://cleanet.org/clean/literacy/climate/index.html
- Climate Change Education Trainings
Free Downloadable resources from the Office for Climate Education:
- Climate Change Ed: From Knowledge to Action Online Course
The Office for Climate Education (OCE) launches an innovative online course: an opportunity for teachers all over the world to learn how to teach about climate change online and for free.
Hosted on the FEE Academy platform, the online course “Climate Change Education: From Knowledge to Action” was created by the OCE to help primary and middle school teachers to develop solid scientific knowledge and useful pedagogical skills to tackle climate change in the classroom.
- Understanding the Greenhouse Effect Workshop
https://www.oce.global/en/resources/teacher-professional-development/greenhouse-effect
This resource is a guide for a professional development workshop for teachers, about the greenhouse effect. Teachers carry out different experiments in order to understand the greenhouse effect and the role of infrared radiation.
- Developing a sequence of lessons from a conceptual framework Workshop
The goal of this professional development activity is to learn how to design an educational project that uses inquiry-based learning.
This activity is aimed primarily at professional development providers, education advisors, curriculum managers, inspectors, etc. However, it can be attended by experienced teachers.
- Ocean and Climate Change Workshop
https://www.oce.global/en/resources/teacher-professional-development/ocean-and-climate-change
This resource is a guide for a professional development workshop for teachers, about the relationship between the ocean and the climate, and specifically about the consequences of climate change for the oceans. Teachers carry out experiments to investigate glacier and sea ice melting, sea level rise, ocean acidification, and its consequences for biodiversity.
- Women4Climate Workshop
Developing Skills for Women Leadership in Climate Action (4-week online certification course) https://www.c40.org/women4climate/developing-skills-for-women-leadership-in-climate-action
