Teaching Climate Change: Preparing Students for Their Future

Join our cross-disciplinary 5-week learning community to design curriculum-aligned climate change assignments, modules, or courses. No matter your discipline or level of preparedness, the goal is to support your efforts to help prepare students for their climate-changing future.
We believe a climate-change-prepared person is climate-literate and able to address climate change anxiety in a way that leads to an action-oriented future and hope for a better world. But, how do we accomplish this in our teaching? We invite instructors looking to get started designing or refining a climate change-related course or assignment or those who are already engaging this topic but want to learn more and explore the topic across disciplines. Join us to learn from experts and each other.
According to the US Global Change Research Program (2009), “A climate-literate person: understands the essential principles of Earth’s climate system and the options to address human-caused climate change; recognizes credible information about climate change and knows where to find it; communicates about climate change in accurate and effective ways; and is able to make informed decisions related to climate change.”
*United States Global Change Research Program. (March 2009). Climate literacy: The essential principles of climate science.