Lelia N. Hawkins Facing Climate Change
Resources for teaching climate change
Online courses and open access textbooks
Bending the Curve (MOOC), free, with four short online courses aimed at the introductory level
https://bendingthecurve.ucsd.edu/
Global Warming 1: The science and modeling of climate change
https://www.coursera.org/learn/global-warming
Global Warming 2: Create your own models in Python
https://www.coursera.org/learn/global-warming-model
Climate Toolkit: A resource manual for science and action (online textbook)
https://open.umn.edu/opentextbooks/textbooks/climate-toolkit-a-resource-manual-for-science-and-action-granshaw
Community resilience to climate change (online textbook)
https://open.umn.edu/opentextbooks/textbooks/community-resilience-to-climate-change-theory-research-and-practice-hellman
Introduction to climate science (online textbook)
https://open.umn.edu/opentextbooks/textbooks/community-resilience-to-climate-change-theory-research-and-practice-hellman
Web Resources for Educators
Includes climate solutions webinars, lists of willing speakers, and discussion questions by course area
https://www.solveclimateby2030.org/
Project Drawdown: reducing carbon emissions through many interventions (interdisciplinary)
https://drawdown.org/programs/drawdown-learn
Solutions Journalism: modules for including climate solutions into your course
https://solutionsu.solutionsjournalism.org/teaching-collections?resource-filter=climate-solutions
CLEAN: Climate literacy and energy awareness network: a huge repository of curated teaching resources for all levels
https://cleanet.org/index.html
Climate.gov from NOAA: another huge repository of teaching resources, including ready-to-use activities on many topics
https://www.climate.gov/teaching
National Climate Assessment Teaching Resources: 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.
https://www.climate.gov/teaching/national-climate-assessment-resources-educators/2014-national-climate-assessment-resources
Environmental justice
This Google doc contains links to articles at the intersection of environmental decline and racism. The document is living – our team adds articles as we find them. You will also find some case studies highlighted here.
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1tJXu0ES56BPqMiKqkFbg_OIwsPI5wnSBHgTPSPjmz3M/edit