Resources

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.

Black Land Matters

Leah Penniman

Dijour Carter refused to get out of the van parked in the gravel driveway at Soul Fire Farm in Grafton, New York. The other teens in his program emerged, skeptical, […]

Teaching that Food Justice Is Racial Justice

Tim Swinehart

Swinehart highlights the work of Leah Penniman to teach about the connection between food and racial justice.