Climate Lesson Plans
Climate Across the Curriculum Toolkit
- The Association for the Advancement of Sustainability in Higher Education (AASHE) – Curriculum: Toolkit and lesson plan resources for educators to integrate and cover sustainability in their courses
- The Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences (CIRES) – Curriculum: Curricular units that offer a full suite of learning materials for an in-depth treatment of earth science and environmental science topics
- Climate Justice Alliance – Grounding in Just Transition Toolkit: Toolkit comprised of three curricula aimed at employing popular education for the frontlines.
- A Guide to Community-Driven Just Transition Planning: A guide for developing a local/regional Just Transition planning process
- Building Our Movement of Movements: Introduces the concept of Just Transition
- Being the Change: Aims to provide a strong foundation for communities building regenerative economies that are equitable and just, while centering race, class, and gender
- The Pulitzer Center – Lesson Plans: Standard-aligned lesson plans that encourage students to make local connections to global news stories
- NASA Wavelength: A collection of resources that incorporate NASA content to use with your audience of learners
- NOAA – The Essential Principles of Climate Literacy: This guide aims to promote greater climate science literacy by providing an educational framework of principles and concepts
- NOAA – Toolbox for Teaching Climate & Energy: Provides supportive resources and programs for those who want to teach climate and energy science
- CLEAN – Climate and Energy Educational Resource Collection: A collection of climate and energy educational resources
About Climate Across the Curriculum:
Full toolkit here: https://www.colorado.edu/ecenter/CAC
Climate Across the Curriculum (CAC) is a summer faculty training opportunity for CU faculty to broaden their knowledge of climate and plan to implement new climate action subjects into their course work. The development will focus on:
- Improving climate and sustainability competency
- Networking with and learning from peer educator
- Workshopping lesson plans in a supportive space
- Reflecting on how to navigate difficult conversations
- Touring campus as a Living Learning Lab
- Gaining climate pedagogy resources
Summer 2022 CAC Program Training Document
Mission Zero is proud to partner with the decades of climate experts at CU Boulder’s Environmental Center and the C3BC faculty to support the faculty training & development of the most cutting-edge climate curricula in the US.