NEW Climate Change Inquiry Guides for K-2 & 3-6 Students
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Looking for ways to approach climate change in an age-appropriate way with your young students? Check out our two newest resources.
These resource was developed as a response to the gaps in knowledge, and requests for support that were identified in our 2019 national survey: Canada, Climate Change and Education: Opportunities for Public and Formal Education , as well as our experience delivering climate change Professional Development workshops to teachers across the country.
Empowering the Youngest Learners in a Warming World
K-2 Resource
For this age group, the focus is on connecting students to nature and the world around them, and introducing the building blocks to climate change in an age appropriate and sensitive way. Each chapter below consists of 3-4 guided inquiries that put students at the centre of their own learning.
Contributors: Nathalie Lauriault, Janice Haines and Deborah Miller.
- What is Climate Change and Why Care?
- How Does Climate Change Affect Our World?
- How Does Addressing Climate Change Make Us Healthier?
- It’s Easy Being Green
- Indigenous Ways of Knowing
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Empowering Young Learners in a Warming World
3-6 Resource
Each chapter in this guide explores climate change from a different lens. It considers age-appropriateness and creates space for educators to adapt in response to individual student and class needs. The activities in the inquiries encourage students to harness their curiosity, and take time reflect on their own thoughts, feelings, actions and spheres of influence when it comes to climate change. Each chapter uses creative prompts, useful resources and centers action. Each chapter below consists of 3 guided inquiries to help bring climate change learning to your classroom.
Contributors: Judy Halpern, Lynn Bristoll, and Deborah Miller.
- What is Climate Change and Why Care?
- How Does Climate Change Affect Our World?
- How Does Addressing Climate Change Make Us Healthier?
- It’s Easy Being Green
- Indigenous Ways of Knowing
