Module 1 | Best Practices

Teacher’s climate guide is a an education package from a Finnish project. It explains climate change in the context of each school subject, and provides exercises and visual material. 

It also contains tips for multidisciplinary climate education, tips for integrating climate change in education and activities at the primary level, and basic information about climate change and climate education.

This guide provide six guidelines that suggest how to concretely include climate action in school governance, teaching and learning, campus and facility management, and partnerschips with the community. 

The guidelines are accompanied by examples showing how schools around the world are taking action.

The guidelines and examples are based on a survey looking at climate action project at 55 schools in 12 countries. 

A rainwater harvesting project was established in 2010 in the Seychelles to address the problem of water scarcity and at the same time demonstrate adaptation to climate change in schools. 

The rainwater collection can be a good idea in order to understand the phenomenon con waterbomb, and the importance of rain for agriculture. Together with a school garden, for example, it can help to sensibilize students to the necessity to save water.

The project called “Educate for the Future” was developed to engage Italian schools in implementing development cooperation projects with Africa on issues such as climate change, new technologies and responsible consumption. 

The project entails creating multidisciplinary teaching materials and publishing educational products on web-based multimedia with the goal of establishing a "national network of schools for a sustainable future.” 

This is an example of the ways that a school can use in order to make cooperation project on Sustainability even with not European areas, like Africa. 

This Interactive Platform can also be extended to schools which the schools of ClimART2.0 will cooperate with.

A pilot project was launched in January 2014 with three São Paulo State public schools located in vulnerable areas to build a research base for climate change and disaster-based risk at local level in schools. 

The focus of the project is to build resilience and explore new means towards healthier and more sustainable lifestyles. 

Not all the areas have the same "rate" of danger to climate change extreme events. 

Schools can make walks through their own territories, in order to understand and map (through the mapping tools in the Forum) which areas are most vulnerable to climate change, also becoming a fundamental actor for the communities.

The National Centere for Science Education gives teachers the tools and skills to help students overcome misconceptions and misinformation about climate change, evolution, and the nature of science.

In particular, the Climate Change Lesson Sets is composed by:
LESSON SET 1 - Scientific Consensus: A Tsunami of Evidence
LESSON SET 2 - Understanding Climate Modeling
LESSON SET 3 - Back to the Future: Climate Edition
LESSON SET 4 - Climate Change in Your Own Backyard
LESSON SET 5 - Climate Super Solutions

Within project Art For Change, taking place in 2018, 25 students of the Antonio Arroio Art High School in Lisbon were engaged in an experiment with change: to choose a sustainable behavior and adopt it for 30 days.

After completing the 30 days, each of the students developed an art project about their experience with change: a poster and a booklet. 

The posters and booklets were curated in an exhibition .

At Interlochen Arts Academy (Michigan, 2017) students were given a digital storytelling workshop to make a photo essay as a creative respon.

They watched a film and viewed the photo essay Melting Away which documents icebergs in the polar regions from Native American photographer, Camille Seaman. 

After discussing these multimedia stories in depth, students were challenged to create a photo essay as a creative response to climate change. 

A not-for-profit organisation in London provides ideas & resources for teaching students about the impacts of human activity on the environment and solutions to tackle it.

"Nature inspired design" is one of their Teaching for Creativity resouces. The resource encourages students to turn to nature to find solutions to problems, while learning the creative habit of being collaborative.

Climate Change Education Exchange is a web-portal to free on line climate change education resources including lesson plans, curricular units, teacher training, data, games and media for climate change and associated topics: green jobs, energy, water, climate actions, visuals, environmental education, natural resources use and more. 

Global Oneness Project  aims to connect the local human experience to global meta-level issues, such as climate change, water scarcity, food insecurity, poverty, endangered cultures, migration, and sustainability

Using stories as a pedagogical tool for growing minds, it brings the world’s cultures alive in the classroom, offering -for free with no ads or subscriptions- a rich library of multimedia stories comprised of award-winning films, photo essays, and essays. 

Companion curriculum and discussion guides are also available.