Resources

Teaching About the “Stuff That Is Actually Happening”

Moé Yonamine

Yonamine describes how learning about young people fighting against climate change energized her summer school students.

Parable of the Sower and Climate Futures

Mimi Eisen

Eisen explores themes for classroom discussion as well as disturbing similarities between our present moment and the dystopian future portrayed in Octavia E. Butler’s Parable of the Sower.

Teaching the Culprits of Climate Chaos

Bill Bigelow

Using his updated climate crisis trial, Bigelow shows how students explore the forces behind climate chaos.

Teaching for Climate Justice: My Top 10 List

Bill Bigelow

Bigelow recommends 10 essential elements of a robust climate justice curriculum.

Why We Need to Teach the History of the Environmental Justice Movement

Tim Swinehart

A high school social studies teacher discusses ways to teach the rich history of multiracial, community-based environmental organizing in the United States.

Environmental Justice Activists Look Like My Students

Moé Yonamine

High school students envision alternative uses for a planned freight distribution warehouse near their school — and challenge their own conceptions of environmental activists in the process.

Debunking False Climate Solutions in Our Classrooms

Tim Swinehart

An environmental justice teacher encourages students to critically examine proposed solutions to climate change.

Teaching the Truth About National Parks

Tim Swinehart

An environmental justice teacher engages students in an examination of the problematic history of national parks.

Baltimore Students Fight for Climate Justice — and Their Own Lives

Bill Bigelow

Bigelow discusses a recent episode of the NPR podcast Code Switch focused on student organized climate victory in Baltimore.

The Climate Crisis Has a History. Teach It.

Mimi Eisen and Ursula Wolfe-Rocca

Eisen and Wolfe-Rocca critique textbook timelines and introduce the new Zinn Education Project Climate Justice Timeline.