Last Updated - April 2025
The purpose of this page is to provide resources for teachers who want to use the data from this initiative with their students, and to provide access to resources that support integrating environmental and climate literacy into ones teaching practice.
Solutionary Data Unit Example: Exploring Ecological Overshoot and Data for Environmental and Climate Action in Schools
This unit exemplar contains a guiding blueprint and a series of standards-aligned solutionary learning segments and activities that support teachers to explore the concept of ecological overshoot, and use data to catalyze environmental and climate action in schools.
Solutionary Data Unit Example: Climate Impacts and Data for Environmental and Climate Action in Schools
This unit exemplar contains a guiding blueprint and a series of standards-aligned solutionary learning segments and activities that support teachers to explore climate impacts, and use data to catalyze environmental and climate action in schools.
Additional Environmental and Climate Literacy Resources
Seeds to Solution: Access Seeds to Solutions Curriculum
Seeds to Solutions™ is a set of free instructional resources on climate change and environmental justice for grades K–12. Developed in response to teacher and community demand, the lessons empower students to address California-specific environmental challenges, from food waste to water use to wildfire management. Students’ real-world questions drive the lessons, fostering critical thinking and problem-solving. Age-appropriate, culturally relevant, and trauma-informed, Seeds to Solutions prepares students to be environmentally literate, engaged community members.
Education and the Environment Initiative (EEI): Access EEI Curriculum
The California EEI Curriculum is a powerful, state board of education-approved instructional resource that helps educators teach to state standards in science* and history–social science using the environment as context. Select units and unit materials are featured in Spanish. Ten Strands has partnered with California’s Office of Education and the Environment at CalRecycle to increase access to the curriculum.
SoCal Earth: Access SoCal Earth
Empowering communities through education, SoCalEarth offers accessible, science-based resources for students, educators, and lifelong learners. Explore climate, ecology, and sustainability topics tailored for Southern California—whether you're in a classroom, at home, or out in the field. Start learning, start teaching, and join us in building a more informed and resilient future. Explore teaching and learning resources and explore individual web pages which have dashboards, maps, apps, games. Help your students take the first steps into how spatial thinking can inform environmental change. The website is geared toward Southern California but is applicable to all of California. SoCal Earth is curated through the Robert Redford Conservancy for Southern California Sustainability at Pitzer College. The SoCal Earth team is available for walkthroughs and tutorials for teachers who want to incorporate it into their classrooms or districts.
