Teaching & Learning

Transformative climate education that leads to agency.

Frameworks, educator learning, stories, and resources that make climate and environmental education rigorous, relevant, justice-centered, and actionable.

Design principles

A framework for teaching climate change differently.

01

Activate Student Agency

Position young people as participants in inquiry, civic learning, and climate solutions rather than passive recipients of information.

02

Interdisciplinary

Connect science with art, history, literature, mathematics, technology, and other disciplines to make climate issues coherent and relevant.

03

Transdisciplinary

Bridge academic knowledge with Indigenous knowledge, local expertise, community experience, and other ways of knowing.

04

Intersectional

Examine how climate impacts and solutions intersect with identity, geography, opportunity, health, and social systems.

05

Center Equity & Justice

Help learners understand systemic inequities and imagine inclusive, responsive, and self-determined solutions.

06

Honor Community & Indigenous Knowledge

Recognize deep community knowledge and culturally grounded practices as essential to climate learning and action.

07

Cultivate 21st-Century Skills

Use inquiry, project-based learning, collaboration, communication, and systems thinking to prepare learners for participatory action.

Planet Connected

Where education, science, and community meet.

A video series connecting educators and young people with scientists, researchers, community knowledge, and stories of climate action.

Climate learning is stronger when students connect knowledge to people, places, and possibilities for action.

Use the series as a launch point for discussion, inquiry, storytelling, and community-connected learning.