Resources for bringing climate justice into the classroom

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We spoke to primary and secondary educators about bringing a climate justice focus into their classroom teaching. We invited them to share any resources that they had found helpful in creating this focus.

The resources include poems, images, documentaries, games and roleplays, outdoor activities, and lesson plans incorporating a range of creative ideas. Teachers also signalled directories of resources and organisations that are producing helpful resources for climate justice teaching and learning. Where possible, we have included brief testimonies of how educators have used these or similar resources in their classrooms, or how they plan to do so.

In addition, the team conducted their own web-based research for resources that directly engage with climate justice as a topic. We are open to suggestions for further resources. We would also love to hear more testimonies of using the resources listed here! For this, you can use the comments box on each resource page.

Resources are tagged to the following ages that align to key educational stages: 3-7 (pre-primary and lower primary); 5-11 (primary), 7-11 (upper primary), 11-14 (lower secondary); 14+ (upper secondary). Most of the resources could be used with multiple age groups, but they are tagged to the age group that the resource was principally designed for, or that the educator who recommended the resource had used it with.

Some resources may have been developed for specific subjects, however we have not tagged resources to a subject area, as we believe climate justice education can and should be embedded across all subjects.

Resources are organised using one or more of the following tags (the size of the text for each reflects the number of resources tagged):

Featured

Spoken word, Video, Age 7-11

Di Baladna (Our Land) by Emtithal Mahmoud

Spoken word, Video, Age 7-11

World champion poet and UNHCR Goodwill Ambassador, Emtithal (Emi) Mahmoud’s wrote the poem, Di Baladna, which means Our Land in Arabic, following a series of discussions with refugees living on the front lines of the climate crisis in Bangladesh, Cameroon, and Jordan.

Spoken word, Video, Age 7-11

Critical text, Images, Age 14 plus

Commentary: the injustice of climate change

Critical text, Images, Age 14 plus

Howard Magazine (from Howard University, USA) have produced a series of images exploring aspects of natural hazards, climate change and justice and woven them into a short critical essay on climate justice.

Critical text, Images, Age 14 plus

Game, Lesson plan, Experiential learning, Global case studies, Age 7-11

Water Aid Pupil Pipeline game

Game, Lesson plan, Experiential learning, Global case studies, Age 7-11

WaterAid provides clean water, sanitation and hygiene education to some of the world’s poorest people. Their Pupil Pipeline project is a fun and educational water delivery challenge for schools that will help bring clean water to communities around the world, like Finote Selam’s primary school.

Game, Lesson plan, Experiential learning, Global case studies, Age 7-11

Resource pack, Images, Lesson plan, Global case studies, Critical text, Age 5-11

Climate Change, Climate Justice (Trócaire)

Resource pack, Images, Lesson plan, Global case studies, Critical text, Age 5-11

Trócaire is an overseas development agency of the Catholic Church in Ireland. The teaching methodologies and classroom activities will enable students to critically examine this issue of climate change through active engagement. Classroom discussion should follow a justice-centred approach.

Resource pack, Images, Lesson plan, Global case studies, Critical text, Age 5-11

Resources for bringing climate justice into the classroom

See resources below

We spoke to primary and secondary educators about bringing a climate justice focus into their classroom teaching. We invited them to share any resources that they had found helpful in creating this focus.

Classrooms for climate justice.