Climate change education resources
This list was produced by Ben Ballin and published by Sustainability and Environmental Education (SEEd) News.
Most, but not all, of these resources are accessible online without cost.
Teaching resources, stimulus materials and programmes
A Giant Change: http://www.skipseducational.org/a-giant-change
Association for Science Education:
Climate Change Evidence and Causes: https://www.ase.org.uk/resources/school-science-review/issue-354/climate-change-evidence-and-causes
Effective strategies for talking about climate change in the classroom: https://www.ase.org.uk/resources/school-science-review/issue-354/effective-strategies-talking-about-climate-change
The Adventures of Polo The Bear (Pay-for book): https://www.ase.org.uk/bookshop/adventures-of-polo-bear-story-of-climate-change
CBBC: In pictures, the changing world http://news.bbc.co.uk/cbbcnews/hi/newsid_4760000/newsid_4762000/4762089.stm
Climate change, local and global: https://www.tidegloballearning.net/primary-early-years/climate-change-local-and-global-enquiry-approach-feature-article
Supporting resources: https://www.tidegloballearning.net/primary-early-years/publications-support-climate-change-local-global
Climate KIC: https://www.climate-kic.org/programmes/education/
Design and Technology Association: Focus climate change (pay-for digital materials): https://www.data.org.uk/shop-products/focus-climate-change-single-licence/
Eco Schools:
Energy (Primary): https://www.eco-schools.org.uk/eyfs-primary-pathway/ten-topics/energy-2/
Geographical Association:
(Primary) https://www.geography.org.uk/teaching-resources/investigating-climate-zones-and-climate-change
(Secondary case study): https://www.geography.org.uk/teaching-resources/climate-change-bangladesh
(General) https://www.geography.org.uk/teaching-resources/weather-climate-change/investigating-climate-change
Green Teacher: https://greenteacher.com
Interclimate network: http://www.interclimate.org
Learning to choose: climate change: https://www.tidegloballearning.net/resources/learning-choose
Less CO2 (programme includes free workshops): http://www.lessco2.org.uk
School Energy Efficiency: http://www.schoolenergyefficiency.co.uk
Oxfam climate challenge 7-11: https://www.oxfam.org.uk/education/resources/climate-challenge-7-11
Peacemakers (climate workshops): https://peacemakers.org.uk
Practical Action:
Information: https://practicalaction.org/climate-change
Teaching resources: https://practicalaction.org/climate-change-resources
Royal Geographical Society with IBG):
Climate 4 Classrooms: https://www.rgs.org/schools/teaching-resources/climate-4-classrooms/
Climate Change workshop resources: https://www.rgs.org/schools/teaching-resources/climate-change/
Climate change resources (KS3): https://www.rgs.org/schools/teaching-resources/climate-change-resources-key-stage-three/
Galapagos and El Nino (GCSE resource): https://www.rgs.org/schools/teaching-resources/galapagos-(activities-for-gcse)/
Engineering our climate: https://www.rgs.org/schools/teaching-resources/engineering-our-climate/
60 second guide to climate action: https://www.rgs.org/schools/teaching-resources/60-second-guide-to-sustainable-development-goa-(4)/
Solutions for the planet: https://solutionsfortheplanet.co.uk
Thinking through climate change: http://www.wmnet.org.uk/files/ttcc
Policy and background
The Big Issue: Putting climate change on the curriculum (Part of special edition, April 2019). https://www.bigissue.com/latest/put-climate-change-on-our-curriculum-the-outraged-teens-confronting-ofsted/
The climate curriculum petition: https://www.change.org/p/get-the-climate-crisis-on-the-national-curriculum/psf/promote_or_share?source_location=petition_show
NAEE blogs:
http://naee.org.uk/from-a-cumbrian-headteacher
http://naee.org.uk/climate-change-still-challenge-english-schools
Networks, action and support
Campaign Against Climate Change: https://www.campaigncc.org/climate_youth_strikes
The Climate Coalition: https://www.theclimatecoalition.org/schools
Climate outreach: https://climateoutreach.org
The Climate Reality Project Global Education Group (Facebook):
https://www.facebook.com/GlobalClimateEducation
NAEE (Environmental Education): http://naee.org.uk
SEEd (Sustainability Education): https://se-ed.co.uk
UK student climate network: https://ukscn.org
West Midlands Sustainable Schools Network (network of organisations and individuals providing support to schools): https://westmidlandssustainableschoolsnetwork.com
WWF: https://www.facebook.com/WWFUnitedKingdom
Related issues
Hubbub: Plastic fishing: https://www.hubbub.org.uk/plastic-fishing
Plant for the planet:
https://www.facebook.com/PlantForThePlanetDeutschland
https://pftp2014-prod.plant-for-the-planet.org/en/join-in
Sussex Green Living: https://www.sussexgreenliving.co.uk/parents-zone/green-education
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