Support for teaching Climate Change in schools
Many of us have used the content from the links below in our teaching and found them to be great resources. Let us know how you are using them – and if there are others we should add.
- Teaching Climate Change to children
- Teaching Climate Change in schools
- Climate Change and Me
- Ever wondered what our curriculum teaches kids about Climate Change?
- UN Resource Guide on integrating Climate Change in primary and secondary schools
- Why integrate Climate Change into the Curriculum?
- Climate change missing in the curriculum
- Stand up for your Climate/Future: 8 Module teaching and learning sequence
- Environment Education Victoria (EEV) Resources for teachers
Climate Change content
There is so much information and content on climate change out there. We’ve found these sites are excellent sources of information about climate change. Let us know how you are using them – and if there are others we should add!
- Climate change in Australia: Comprehensive resource for information on Climate Change in Australia, including understanding climate and Climate Change, potential future analogues, impacts and adaptation measures.
- Climate Kelpie: Great, user friendly information about our climate drivers.
- NRM Climate Planning: Climate planning tool for Natural Resource Management.
- Climate Council: Climate change communication organisation with good summaries of IPCC reports.
- Agriculture Victoria: Useful resources for climate change and weather for the agricultural sector.
- Coast Adapt: Climate Change impacts and adaptation in the coastal areas across Australia.
- Adapting to climate change: Australian federal government climate change adaptation webpage including the National Climate Resilience and Adaptation Strategy.
- Climate change and rural communities: A report by the Climate Council of Australia Limited which focuses on how climate change is affecting ruralcommunities that rely on primary agricultural production.
- The conversation: Independent source of news and views, sourced from the academic and research community and delivered direct to the public.
Organisations taking action on Climate Change
- National Climate Resilience and Adaptation Strategy (2015)
- Energy efficiency building codes: Victoria’s new building codes.
- Victoria’s renewable energy roadmap
- Victorian Coastal Strategy
- Water: Integrated Water Management Planning
- ADAPT – Loddon Mallee: A community of practice developed around climate adaptation in North West Victoria.
Opportunities to take action on Climate Change
- Virtual hub for Climate Change Innovation: A portal for knowledge sharing around climate innovation through Victoria.
- Sustainability Victoria business: Support for business to mitigate and adapt to a changing climate.
- The Business Case for Action on Climate Change
United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)
The following links provide information about the United Nations Sustainable Develoment goals, including the ways they are being implemented and how they are being monitored.
- About the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals
- A learning tool to set challenges to implement the Sustainable Development Goals
- How the Australian Dairy Industry is implementing the Sustainable Development Goals
- Food and Agriculture Organisation, United Nations – implementing the SDGs in agriculture
- An inspirational video of re-focussing to the local and regional
- How Australia is rating in the Sustainable Development Goals
- Mapping our social change roles in times of crisis
Organisations, services and support for Climate Change Educators
Eastern Alliance for Sustainable Learning (EASL): Alliance between Whitehorse, Maroondah, Manningham, Knox and Yarra Ranges Councils offering services and support in incorporating sustainability into their curriculum, facilities and policies.
Environment Education Victoria (EEV): Peak body for Sustainability and Environment Education in Victoria, across early learning centres, primary schools, secondary schools and universities as well as the broader community, Local Government and the corporate sector.
Workshop and seminar resources
CCEN creates and delivers workshops, seminars and professional learning about Climate Change Education. The resources below were created by CCEN for our past events. You’re welcome to use and adapt them – but please acknowledge us (Climate Change Education Network). Contact us here to let us know how you are using them – we’d love to know!
STAVCON Council of all Beings
Ensemble task instructions Instructions for ensemble task: Choose one of your goup's being as your group's being Brainstorm your being's statement to humanity using the provocations As an ensemble, create a Statement to Humanity from your being Represent your Statement to Humanity in the google doc here [...]
Learning about location in a climate of change
Learning about Location in a Climate of Change Public Pedagogies Institute Online Seminar Series, Thursday 1 October 2020. The 2019/2020 bushfire disaster and COVID-19 have been instigators of radical changes to place and the ways we relate to location. In this period of significant ecological and social stress, these [...]
A commitment to our world
Workshop resources Workshop outline This workshop was presented at Kaleidoscope: Drama Victoria's Annual Conference in 2020. It can be delivered in 45 or 60 minutes and can be extended acros a sequence of lessons for students of all ages and learning areas, capabilities and prioritis within the Victorian [...]
Climate Change and Gippsland
Gippsland Region Climate Change Education Resources Teacher workshop presentation Click on the image to view the slides from our Gippsland-focused Teacher Workshops. Workshop 1 Workshop 2 Resources for the Gippsland region Climate projections and [...]
