Teaching Climate Across the Curriculum

Supporting students in understanding climate change and finding pathways to a sustainable future necessitates teaching about climate both in and beyond science classrooms. Most mitigation and adaptation strategies are grounded in policy change, financial incentives, workforce development, engineering solutions, and civic responses. To support these strategies, educating and training a climate-ready next generation requires teaching in subjects such as English Language Arts (ELA), Social Studies, Math, and Art. 

CLEAN's Teaching Across the Curriculum collection offers K-12 activities, lesson plans, videos, and other resources for teaching climate in a variety of subjects.

Teaching climate topics in Math classes

Math resources include lessons on topics such as data interpretation, graphing, modeling, and statistics.

Teaching climate topics in Art classes

Art resources include lessons on fine art, music, theater, and dance.

Teaching climate topics in English Language Arts (ELA) classes

ELA resources include lessons on reading, writing, language, speaking, and listening.

Teaching climate topics in Social Studies classes

Social studies resources include lessons on civics, geography, economics, and political science.