Climate Education

Many organizations have developed educational resources to both inform the public about climate impacts, and support curriculum for educators. This list includes climate, environmental and scientific educational resources intended to broaden understandings of climate change and climate impacts. This page also includes links to videos and educational talks relevant to tribal climate change issues.

Title Description Geography Website
US EPA Environmental Education

This program provides information about environmental education, educational resources, career opportunities and funding opportunities for environmental education programs

Categories: Environmental Education

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Association for Science Teacher Education (ASTE): Educational Resources

ASTE keeps a list of environmental education organizations and resources for teachers.

Categories: Environmental Education

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Inflation Reduction Act IRA Investment for Tribal and Indigenous Communities

The Inflation Reduction Act of 2022 (IRA) directs over $722 million specifically to Tribal and Indigenous communities and includes another $46 billion that Tribal and Indigenous communities are eligible to apply for. For electrification, the IRA makes available over $35 billion in resources to Tribal and Indigenous communities, if they take full advantage of all the money in the IRA. This brief outlines the IRA provisions designated to help Tribal and Indigenous communities lower their energy costs, transform their energy systems and reduce pollution through efficient, beneficial electrification. Read the memo here.

Categories: electrification, energy, IRA, rebate

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National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) El Nino Theme Page

NOAA has collected a list of outside educational resources on El Nino and La Nina events.

Categories: El Nino, Climate Science, Education

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Alliance for Climate Education (ACE)

Alliance for Climate Education's mission is to educate young people on the science of climate change and empower them to take action.

Categories: Education, Youth, Climate Impacts, Adaptation, Mitigation

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National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) For Educators

NASA's Science Education Program creates products using NASA's results in Earth Science, Heliophysics, Planetary Science, and Astrophysics research. The program sponsors educational activities at all levels of formal and informal education to provide opportunities for learners to investigate their world and their universe using unique NASA resources.

Categories: Education, Science

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Earthguide

Earthguide is dedicated to providing online materials for K-14 students, teachers, and the public that enhances lifelong learning and encourages positive action related to the management of the Earth, its living and natural resources and society.

Categories: Education, Science

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State of Rhode Island Department of Environmental Management Educational Resources

Rhode Island DEM maintains a list of environmental education materials for students and teachers.

Categories: Education, Environment, Sustainability, Science

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Florida Solar Energy Center

In order educate teachers and students about renewable energy technologies, the Florida Solar Energy Center has developed several environment and energy curricula for use by teachers.

Categories: Education, Curriculum, Renewable Energy

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Cornell University: Climate Education Resources

Cornell's Department of Ornithology provides links to information materials for teaching and learning about climate change.

Categories: Education, Curriculum, Climate Impacts

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Global System Science

Global Systems Science (GSS) is an interdisciplinary, integrated course for high school students, created by the Lawrence Hall of Science at University of California, Berkeley. The course emphasizes how scientists from a wide variety of fields work together to understand significant problems of global impact.

Categories: Education, Curriculum

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ee capacity: Primer on Climate Change for Educators

ee capacity offers free resources as a primer for teachers seeking to integrate climate change into curriculum.

Categories: Education, Curriculum

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US Geological Survey (USGS) Education Resources

USGS maintains a broad range of educational resources that address a broad array of scientific disciplines and topics, including geology, biology, ecology and climate. They have developed resources for K-12 and undergraduate courses.

Categories: Education, Climate, Science

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Exploring the Environment Project

The Center for Educational Technologies at Wheeling Jesuit University has expanded the popular Exploring the Environment website with funding from the NASA Innovations in Global Climate Change Education program. The new modules provide a comprehensive problem-based learning approach to the study of climate science.

Categories: Education, Climate Science, Data, Curriculum

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US Climate Resilience Toolkit

The U.S. Climate Resilience Toolkit provides scientific tools, information, and expertise to help people manage their climate-related risks and opportunities, and improve their resilience to extreme events. The site is designed to serve interested citizens, communities, businesses, resource managers, planners, and policy leaders at all levels of government. It also includes case studies and information pertaining specifically to tribes.

Categories: Education, Climate Science, Data, Adaptation, Native American

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ARM Climate Research Facility

The Atmospheric Radiation Measurement (ARM) Program was created in 1989 by the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) to develop several highly instrumented ground stations to study cloud formation processes and their influence on radiative transfer. As part of their work, ARM provides educational resources for students and teachers.

Categories: Education, Climate Science, Data

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US EPA Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy Education Resources

This website includes lesson plans, student resources, and multimedia climate education resources.

Categories: Education, Climate Science

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National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) Education Resources

NOAA maintains a website of educational resources, which includes information on current climate science, funding and educational opportunities for students and educators, updates on NOAA education programs, and upcoming events and programs.

Categories: Education, Climate Science

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National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA): Climate Education Resources

This website includes multimedia, climate data, and educational unites about climate change impacts in the US.

Categories: Education, Climate Impacts, Climate Data

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Union of Concerned Scientists Climate Hotspots Map

The Union of Concerned Scientists maintain a Google Map that displays areas across the world currently experiencing notable impacts from climate.

Categories: Education, Climate Impacts

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National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) Climate Literacy Guide

In an effort to promote climate literacy, scientists, formal and informal educators, and representatives of a range of U.S. agencies participated in developing and vetting a list of the most important concepts in climate science. The document they produced — Climate Literacy: The Essential Principles of Climate Science — reflects a broad and current effort to define climate literacy.

Categories: Education, Climate Impacts

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National Center for Science Education (NCSE): Climate Education

Long respected for its work in defending and supporting the teaching of evolution in the public schools, in 2012 NCSE launched this new initiative to defend and support the teaching of climate change. This section of the website includes the four main sections of the climate change education resources here.

Categories: Education, Climate Change

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Washington State Department of Ecology Climate Change Resources

Washington State DOE maintains a list of climate change web resources.

Categories: Education, Climate Change

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National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA): National Climate Assessment (NCA) Teaching Resources

The National Climate Assessment offers a wealth of actionable science about the causes, effects, risks and possible responses to human-caused climate change. NOAA, the NCAnet Education Affinity Group, and members of the CLEAN Network have developed a series of guides for educators that focus on the regional chapters of the Assessment Report, helping to unpack the key messages of each region and point to related, high-quality online resources.

Categories: Education, Climate Assessment, Climate Science, Data

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Tribal Solid Waste Education and Assistance Program

ITEP is coordinating an onsite mentoring project as part of our Tribal Solid Waste Education and Assistance Program (TSWEAP). If your tribe is facing challenges in implementing waste diversion or source reduction activities as part of your solid waste program (for example recycling, composting, minimizing hazardous substances in your waste stream, making tribally-owned facilities more sustainable, etc.) – then this new project may be the way for you to move forward.

Categories: Education Development, Infrastructure Development, Waste Diversion, Source Reduction, Sustainability.

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Climate Literacy and Energy Awareness Network (CLEAN)

CLEAN provides a collection of over 600 free, ready-to-use resources rigorously reviewed by educators and scientists

Categories: Education

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Globalchange.gov Wildlife and Wildlands Toolkit for Informal and Formal Educators

The kit is designed for classroom teachers and informal educators in parks, refuges, forest lands, nature centers, zoos, aquariums, science centers, etc., and is aimed at the middle school grade level. The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, in partnership with six other federal agencies—National Park Service, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, NOAA, NASA, U.S. Forest Service, and Bureau of Land Management—developed the kit to aid educators in teaching how climate change is affecting the Nation’s wildlife and public lands, and how everyone can become climate stewards.

Categories: Education

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US EPA Educational Resources

The EPA maintains a list of resources for educators seeking to address climate change.

Categories: Education

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10 Things You May Not Know About Drought

Drought can have real consequences for ecosystems and human communities alike - from leading to increases in wildfire, insect outbreaks, local species extinctions, and forest diebacks, to altering rates of carbon, nutrient, and water cycling. In the future, droughts are generally expected to be hotter, longer-lasting, and larger than those of the past, potentially intensifying these impacts. Scientists from across the country are working to understand the many different impacts of drought, how they might change in the future, and how we can better predict and prepare for these events. Learn about some of our efforts to address the challenges of drought with these 10 examples from across the National and Regional Climate Adaptation Science Center network.

Categories: drought, wildfire, forest management, disaster preparedness, climate change, adaptation

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Technical Documentation on Exposure-Response Functions for Climate-Sensitive Health Outcomes

Climate change and climate variability influence human health in a variety of ways, and it may be important for the public health sector to consider these threats. Understanding the current and future burden of climate-sensitive diseases may benefit planning and response activities. As part of the Climate-Ready States and Cities Initiative (CRSCI), the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) introduced the five-step iterative Building Resilience Against Climate Effects (BRACE) Framework (Figure 1) designed to help the public health sector plan for and adapt to climate-related hazards.

Categories: disease, infection, human health, hazard, prevention, prediction, adaptation, climate change, mitigation, planning, policy, management

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