Teaching Resources

Lesson plans, resources, schemes of work, teacher guides and parent packs on causes and effects of climate change, exploring its local and global contexts. Note: There are free and paid resources on this site. There is also a global community of educ...

Explore these 60 ways to establish, reinforce, and streamline classroom procedures.

A quality-rated resource hub to help teachers bring environmental action into the classroom. It includes a range of resources from individual lesson plans and assemblies to full-scale year-long programs on various sustainability and environment-based...

This PDF guide draws from the firsthand experience of the authors on how to declare a climate emergency in a school. Teachers can use this guide to learn from a real-life case study and adapt the strategies to create similar initiatives in their own ...

In this video from 2015, Teach For America corps member Wisdom Amouzou and his students explore these questions in their classroom.

These resources help teach climate adaptation. The resources are aimed at students between Grade 7-10. They include an online game (My coastal futures), as well as a climate adaptation toolbox and linked activities.

In partnership with Vox Media Studios and Vox, this series of explainer videos takes viewers deep inside a wide range of culturally relevant topics, questions, and ideas. This episode, available on YouTube, delves into the global water crisis as an i...

This resource focuses on how individuals and communities prepare for, respond to, and recover from life-changing natural disasters. It also explores the causes of earthquakes using the examples of the 2015 Nepal earthquake, 2010 Haiti earthquake, and...

In this video from 2013, Teach For America alumnus Taylor Delhagen facilitates a debate to develop students’ critical thinking. Taylor provides concrete strategies for students to process information and develop their own viewpoints.

This is a disaster risk reduction and environmental education toolkit, containing creative activities including a climate change story. Teach For The Philippines alumnus Ryan Bestre helped develop this resource as fellow of Japan Foundation's Hopes a...