• School-wide challenges to reduce climate change (e.g., Waste Free week, Walk to School month, Lights-out lunches, etc.)
• Climate action programs are offered in all grades led by students (e.g., TerraCycle, Crayola Cycle, battery recycling, compost, and recycling programs)
• Research projects to learn about local actions for reducing community’s impact (e.g., students invest their time and effort towards real world problems and solu- tions to impact their local environment and community)
Source: Building Climate-Ready Schools in Canada: Towards Identifying Good Prac- tices in Climate Change Education, 2018
OTHER HOPEFUL RESOURCES
Drawdown.org As the world’s leading resource for climate solutions, this organization reviews, ana- lyzes and identifies the most viable global climate solutions and shares these findings with the world. The website supports us in having solution-based and hopeful conver- sations. Divided by Energy, Food, Women and Girls, Buildings and Cities, Land Use, Materials and Transport you are sure to find a solution to connect to your science or social studies curriculum.
OurWorldInData.org Maps provide an excellent visual to see the significant impact humans are having on the environment, especially over time. Our World In Data’s goal is to make progress against the world’s largest problems. Find a plethora of well-sourced, often interactive maps to analyse with your students but start with these two.
The UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) Tracker (
sdg-tracker.org) – an easy way to deepen your lessons with the SDGs providing visual and up to date informa-tion about all 17 goals.
The Greenhouse Gas Emissions by Hannah Ritchie and Max Roser – a com- prehensive article offering more than a dozen maps. CO2
emissions by fuel type
and by sector respectively allow you to look globally as well as country specific. Hit play on CO2
emissions per capita map and
watch where carbon emissions dramati- cally increased from the 1800s through the industrial revolution. In just 2.3 days the average Canadian emits as much as the average Nigerian in a year.
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