Read
“Teaching global warming in a charged political climate” (Preston, 2019)
“The Green New Deal and our schools” (Rethinking Schools, 2019)
Watch/Listen
Podcast: “Most teachers don't teach climate change; 4 In 5 parents wish they did” (Kamanetz, 2019)
Video: “School strike for climate - Save the world by changing the rules” (Thunberg, 2018)
Video: “Why humans are so bad at thinking about climate change” (Vox, 2017)
ACT
Donate to or volunteer for the 350.org, the Sierra Club, or Greenpeace.
Donate to CARE, the Climate Change Information Center, or visit their website for free courses on climate change.
Visit Union of Concerned Scientists, Friends of the Earth, and/or Earth Justice for specific actions to take against climate injustice.
Teach
“5 YA sci-fi and fantasy novels that tackle climate change” (Hill, 2020)
“8 ways to teach climate change In almost any classroom” (Kamanetz, 2019)
Environmental justice learning plan for middle school (Learning for Justice)
“Build your stack: Climate crisis and English language arts” (NCTE, 2021)
Climate change education (Stanford EARTH)
Environmental justice literacy curriculum (Groundwork USA)
"Hope in the midst of ecological dystopia: Cli-fi books for the young adult reader" (Patil, 2019)
Learn
Climate change education: Essential information for educators (National Education Association, 2020)
Composition and sustainability: Teaching for a threatened generation (Owens, 2001)
Environmental crisis in young adult fiction: A poetics of earth (Curry, 2013).
Greening media education: Bridging media literacy with green cultural citizenship (López, 2014)
“Imagining a future for the planet through literature, writing, images, and drama” (Beach, 2015)
A people’s curriculum for the earth: Teaching climate change and the environmental crisis (Bigelow & Swinehart, 2014)
Professional resources for environmental and sustainable education (Teachers College Center for Sustainable Futures)
Resources for educators (NASA)
Teaching climate change to adolescents: Reading, writing, and making a difference (Beach, Share, & Webb, 2017)
Teaching secondary English as if the planet matters (Matthewan, 2011)
Teaching climate literacy (Climate.gov)
Writing as a way of being: Writing instruction, nonduality, and the crisis of sustainability (Yagelski, 2011)