We are grateful to Chief Joe Pierre for sharing the Ktunaxa Creation Story and inspiring educators to help connect their students to the land. The webinar was recorded with permission and was a partnership with Classroom 2 Communities and Columbia Basin Environmental Education Network.
Is sea level rise really something we need to worry about?
As an educator, how can I teach this stuff?
In this webinar, we will look at the past and future sea-level rise, and its link to anthropogenic climate change, and how to present this topic to students and the public in an educational context. We will also address the question of predicting climate change over the next decades and centuries. We will then look at some of the expected impacts in low-lying coastal zones, in terms of coastal submersion, accelerated coastal erosion, saltwater intrusion, and how sea level rise combines with other consequences of climate change to create new risks. This webinar will be helpful for teachers and educators who are new to the subject, as well as to those with a science background hoping to improve their communication skills to the general public.
We believe educating is a tool of empowerment and that empowering educators as critical messengers of climate and energy literacy is part of the solution to climate change.
Abstract:
Climate change is an urgent global issue, with demands for personal, collective, and governmental action. Although a large body of research has investigated the influence of communication on public engagement with climate change, few studies have investigated the role of interpersonal discussion. Here we use panel data with 2 time points to investigate the role of climate conversations in shaping beliefs and feelings about global warming. We find evidence of reciprocal causality. That is, discussing global warming with friends and family leads people to learn influential facts, such as the scientific consensus that human-caused global warming is happening. In turn, stronger perceptions of scientific agreement increase beliefs that climate change is happening and human-caused, as well as worry about climate change. When assessing the reverse causal direction, we find that knowing the scientific consensus further leads to increases in global warming discussion. These findings suggest that climate conversations with friends and family enter people into a proclimate social feedback loop.
A series of colouring & activity pages created by the Conservation Council of New Brunswick’s Learning Outside project and Marine Program.
Each page features a NB habitat with key species named. They are available in English & French or are bi-lingual (English, French).
Article summarizing research on the importance of children’s relationship with nature, including the importance to full development of the child and the development of environmental values.
The Government of Canada’s action, climate future, partnerships, adaptation, health, science, emissions reporting. Carbon pricing, clean electricity, transportation, buildings, innovation, Pan-Canadian Framework.
Global Weirding is a PBS digital series that has over 30 short videos on a range of related topics including one talking about climate impacts for Canada specifically.
The Humanities for the Environment Observatories are piloting projects and research that seeks to answer questions about the role of the humanities in a time in which human activity is significantly reshaping the geological future of the planet. The aim is to identify, explore, and demonstrate the contributions that humanistic and artistic disciplines make to solving global social and environmental challenges.
LSF’s newest climate change survey aims to assess Canadians’ knowledge, understanding, and perceptions of climate change and its risks, and to explore views on climate change education in Canada. This survey compares current results to our 2019 benchmark survey and provides recommendations to all sectors to support climate learning.
These results illustrate how the general public, teachers, parents, and students view climate change education in Canadian schools. Each target group provides insights on the role schools should play and what support teachers and students require to address climate change in their classrooms. While 81 % of Canadians are aware that climate change is happening, only 55% understand that greenhouse gas emissions are the primary cause. Only 17% think that Government is doing a good job on climate change. Half of Canadians believe that climate change is causing mental health issues or worsening them.
LSF conducted this research, Leger Research Intelligence Group provided data collection and analysis. This project was undertaken with the financial support of the Government of Canada.
LSF’s Empowering Learners in a Warming World climate change inquiry guides at ClimateLearning.ca can help you tackle this complex issue with students of any age. The guides provide educators with a blend of quality content (resources, websites, books, videos, and ideas) and exemplary pedagogy to guide them through an inquiry-driven approach to climate change learning from every angle, from background science to human health, Indigenous perspectives, economic implications, and more.
This guide is designed for educators or anyone who would like to teach young people about the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals. The Sustainable Development Goals — also known as the SDGs or the Global Goals — cover a wide range of sustainability issues; highlighting local, national and international priority areas to end poverty and hunger, improve health and education, make cities more sustainable and combat climate change.
This guide will provide you with information, educational resources and other supports to help you in your efforts to educate and engage young people so that they support sustainable development and are inspired to turn that support into action. This guide will also explore how to incorporate the different topics covered by each goal into lessons across multiple subjects.
You don’t need any prior knowledge or experience of the United Nations, international development, or the Sustainable Development Goals to use this guide. It can be referred to in whole or as individual parts to suit your curriculum.
Earth scientists and communicators dealing with or studying climate change face many potential stressors. They need support and resources to maintain and improve their emotional well-being.
This report provides an estimate of the additional carbon price that would be needed to achieve Canada’s greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions target in 2030 under the Paris Agreement, as well as an estimate of the corresponding impact on the Canadian economy.
Love Your Monsters is a collection of essays that delivers tough love to greens, and it also offers hope. By 2100, nearly all of us will be prosperous enough to live healthy, free, and creative lives. Despite the claims of Malthusian pessimists, that world is both economically and ecologically possible. But to realize it, and to save what remains of the Earth’s ecological heritage, we must once and for all embrace human power, technology, and the larger process of modernization.
This episode of Tai Asks Why explores the causes of climate change and the role students can play in fighting those causes. Possible teaching connections include Social Studies, Language, Science and 21st Century Skills. This teaching guide includes a lesson plan, slideshow, ad-free audio for download, activity sheets, discussion questions and episode transcripts.
Trees of Canada: This resource allows you to explore the native and introduced trees that grow in Canada.
From board books to picture books for older readers, this collection is a selection of 100 of the best books by Indigenous authors, many illustrated by Indigenous artists, published in Canada and currently in print. The titles reflect the diverse First Nations, Métis, and Inuit cultures, languages, perspectives, and experiences from sea to sea to sea. Attention was given to including picture books that promote and support Indigenous languages. All titles reflect authentic First Nations, Métis, and Inuit voices and offer insight into their distinct histories and current realities of these communities.
Click to download this document including over 50 journal and news articles compiled by Dr. Louise Comeau to use as classroom resources and professional learning for climate change educators.
This field of Raccoon Circle training provides hundreds of activities, adventure-based learning opportunities, teachable moments and facilitated
learning, using a simple, and inexpensive prop. It is the perfect resource for day and resident camp counselors,
playground teachers, recreational therapists, group work and teamwork specialists, wilderness trip leaders,
wilderness youth-at-risk programs, corporate trainers, and rope course facilitators.