Climate Change and Literacy
Reading and Climate Change
Article: How Do We Know Climate Change Is Real?
Dig into four charts about global temperatures, emissions, and the correlation between them.
Activity: Claim Testing: Earth’s Climate Record
Practice your claim-testing skills by evaluating what you’ve read in the data exploration and making a claim of your own.
Writing and Climate Change
Article: Understanding Climate Change Disagreement
Explore the political, economic, and social reasons why it can be so difficult to agree when it comes to climate change.
Assessment: Writing: Introduction to Climate Change
Time to write! Demonstrate your understanding of this unit’s content by creating a written argument in response to a prompt.
Activity: Writing: Does It Matter?
Craft an answer to the question posed by the infographic “Does Half a Degree Really Matter?”
Activity: Optimism Personal Statement
Balance the strongest reasons for pessimism and optimism surrounding climate change, and then craft your own position. Regardless of your response, make sure you have solid evidence to support it.
Media Literacy and Climate Change
How to Teach Climate Change in ELA Classrooms
Climate News, Clear Thinking with Heatmap
Spark student curiosity and boost climate smarts with real-world stories from Heatmap journalists, the people working to tell the inside story of the race to fix the planet.
Blog: Teaching climate change in every classroom: Empowering America’s students for the future
Research shows that when students are empowered with knowledge and opportunities to act, their mental health improves. Climate education is not just about teaching facts—it’s about building hope, agency, and resilience.
OER Project: Climate FAQ
Quick answers to the most common questions about the course.
OER Project: Climate Course Guide
Everything you need to know about teaching the course.
