Additional K-8 Resources
You can click on the resource links below to access on-line documents, Amazon.com books, websites, news stories, music videos, youtube videos, and more. Note that URLs do break and change. We’ll fix problems as we find them, and feel free to let us know where you run into problems. And if you have other resources you’d like to suggest for the Toolbox we’d love to hear from you.
- PUBLISHED TEACHING RESOURCES
- 2011 Heffron_Teaching About Global Climate Change
- 2012 Porter_Assessing student learning about climate change
- 2013 UN CCLearn_Integrating Climate Change in Education at Primary and Secondary Level
- 2016 Anderson_Angling toward solutions in climate change education
- 2016 Plutzer_Climate confusion among U.S. teachers
- 2016 Plutzer_Mixed Messages How climate change is taught in Americas schools
- 2016 UN CCLearn_Youth Climate Dialogues - Guiding Tips to Get You All Set - A short guide for teachers and project leaders
- 2017 Beach_Teaching Climate Change to Adolescents: Reading, Writing, and Making a Difference $$
- 2017 Zabel_The Teacher-Friendly Guide to Climate Change
- 2018 Armstrong_Communicating Climate Change - A Guide for Educators
- 2019 Smith_Teaching Climate Change Science to High School Students Using Computer Games in an Inter-media Narrative
- 2021 Davenport_All the Feelings Under the Sun: How to Deal With Climate Change
- 2023 Afzaal_Teaching at Twilight: The Meaning of Education in the Age of Collapse
- USEFUL WEBSITES
- 'Losing Earth': A Climate Change Curriculum
- ACE - Alliance for Climate Education
- Beyond Doom and Gloom: Engage Students in Climate Solutions
- Climate Change Education
- Climate Crisis Education
- Climate Education Modules for K-12
- Collection of Climate and Energy Educational Resources
- Educational Resources - Climate and Energy (600 items listed)
- Energy Education - Energy encyclopedia and teaching tool
- Energy Literacy: Essential Principles and Fundamental Concepts for Energy Education
- Global Warming & Climate Change Resources
- GLOBE Teacher's Guide
- NASA's Climate Kids
- Teaching Climate
- The Teacher-Friendly Guide™ to Climate Change
- World in the Balance | Educator Role Play: Who Will Take the Heat? | PBS
- NEWS SPECIFIC TO K-12 TEACHING
- 2016/2 How American Teachers Are Miseducating Kids About Climate Change
- 2018/4 Americans Support Teaching Children about Global Warming
- 2018/6 Children's books can do more to inspire the new generation of Earth warriors
- 2018/8 Children's books about climate change
- 2018/9 Climate Change is a Thing You Should Teach It
- 2018/9 National Teachers Group Confronts Climate Denial: Keep the Politics Out of Science Class
- CLIMATE MUSIC FOR YOUNG PEOPLE
1992 Song For A Dying Planet, Joe Walsh
2008 Mother Earth with lyrics
2009 Earth Were In It Together- 2010 Wolkenfeld Seven ways to reduce carbon (to the tune of “50 Ways . . . “
2013 A Song of Our Warming Planet
2013 Climate Change Rap 1-Mr. W's Greenhouse Effect Rap- 2013 Planetary bands, warming world - Music for string quartet
2013 Wolkenfeld_Climate Change Rap 1-Mr. W's Greenhouse Effect Rap- 2013 Wolkenfeld_Climate Change Rap 3-Disrupt Climate Disruption
- 2013 Wolkenfeld_Keep Those Fossil Fuels in the Ground
2014 Sing for the Climate
2014 Wolkenfeld Carbon Cycle Song
2015 The sound of climate change from the Amazon to the Arctic- 2015 The soundtrack to COP21. Decades After Paris: a future with climate change, set to music
- 2015 Wolkenfeld_Use the Scientific Method
- 2016 Ludovico Einaudi - Elegy for the Arctic
2016 Mundy_Love in the Time of Coral Reefs- 2016 Musical Scalpel_A Good Planet Is Hard to Find
- 2016 Musical Scalpel_Exxon Knew All Along (song)
- 2016 Musical Scalpel_Only a Fool (song)
- 2016 Musical Scalpel_The Ballad of Pope Francis (song)
- 2016 Musical Scalpel_The Social Cost of Carbon
2017 Climate Rhapsody- 2018 Hear Climate Data Turned into Music
- 2018 The sound of climate change
2018 We are the world (Action Song)- 2019 In Nomine Terra Calens: In the name of a warming Earth
2019 Lyric Video - The Change of Climate- 2019 The lost seasons (ENG)
- CLIMATE BOOKS FOR YOUNG PEOPLE
- 2000 Sedgwick_Floodland
- 2008 Bertagna_Exodus
- 2008 Cherry_How We Know What We Know About Our Changing Climate: Scientists and Kids Explore Global Warming
- 2009 Berger_A Kids' Guide to Climate Change & Global Warming: How to Take Action!
- 2011 Child_Look After Your Planet
- 2012 Berkes_Over in the Ocean: In a Coral Reef
- 2012 Fry_GrandPa's Garden
- 2012 Walsh_10 Things I Can do to Help My World
- 2013 Block_Love in the Time of global Warming
- 2013 Morgan_The Smallest Carbon Footprint in the Land and other eco-tales
- 2013 Okimoto_Winston of Churchill: Pne Bear's Battle Against Global Warming
- 2013 Seuss_The Lorax (Classic Seuss)
- 2014 Cole_The Magic School Bus and the Climate Challenge
- 2015 Fleischman_Eyes Wide Open
- 2015 Kurlansky_World Without Fish
- 2015 Torday_The Last Wild
- 2016 Heos_It's Getting Hot in Here: The Past, Present, and Future of Climate Change
- 2017 Clinton_It's Your World: Get Informed Get Inspried and Get Going
- 2017 Olson_The Sandcastle Empire
- 2018 Herbert_The Tantrum that Saved the World
- 2018 Herman_What is Climate Change?
- 2018 Le_The Lonely Polar Bear - A Subtle Way to Introduce Youg Kids to Climate change Issues
- 2018 Steele_Analyzing Climate Change Asking Questions Evaluating Evidence and Designing Solutions
- 2021 Jahren_The Story of More (Adapted for Young Adults): How We Got to Climate Change and Where to Go from Here
- VIDEO CHANNELS FOR YOUNG PEOPLE
- CARBON101x Essential tools for the low carbon economy YouTube Channel
- CarbonVisuals YouTube Channel
- ClimateAdam YouTube Channel
- Denial101x YouTube Channel
- Global Weirding with Katharine Hayhoe YouTube Channel
- John Cook Youtube Channel
- Just Have a Think YouTube Channel
- Kurzgesagt – In a Nutshell
- MinuteEarth YouTube Channel
- Yale Climate Connections YouTube Channel
- VIDEOS FOR YOUNG PEOPLE
2011 What is Climate Change?- 2013 A History of Earth’s Cimate
2013 Climate For Change Eco Action Team- 2014 Climate Change Animation Shows Devastating Effects
- 2014 Climate Science: What You Need to Know
- 2014 Why People Don’t Believe in Climate Science
- 2015 Climate Change (according to a kid)
- 2015 Greenhouse Effect for Kids
- 2015 Wood_The Children's Climate Crusade
2015 Youth Climate Dialogues- 2016 Climate Change - Crash Course Kids
- 2017 The Tantrum That Saved The World
- 2018 I’m Only a Kid - I Can’t Do Anything About Climate Change - Right?
- 2021 A Closer Look at COP 26 According to a Kid
- CLIMATE GAMES
- 60 Second Sustainability! – EarthGames
- A Caribou’s Tale – EarthGames
- Can You Keep the Earth in Balance?
- Can You Reach Net Zero by 2050?
- Cards Against Calamity
- Climate Call - a fun and learning card game about climate impact
- Climate Cards
- Climate Quest – EarthGames
- ClimateConversations – EarthGames
- EcoChains: Arctic Crisis
- Infrared Escape – EarthGames
- NASA Climate Kids - Play Games
- Save the Climate Game
- The Climate Time Machine
- World Rescue Game
- CLIMATE QUIZZES
- Ben and Jerry's The Ultimate Climate Change Quiz
- Can You Guess What America Will Look Like in 10,000 Years? A Quiz
- Carbon cycle quiz
- Carbon dioxide quiz
- Climate Change Impacts Quiz
- Climate Change Quiz
- Global temperature quiz
- NASA Vital Signs of the Planet Quizzes
- Quiz: How much do you really know about climate change?
- Quizizz - Greenhouse effect and climate change (6th grade)
- What can we do about climate change?
- What do you know about climate change?
- What do you think about climate change?
- What’s your climate IQ? - Conservation International