Climate Justice Is a 21st Century Skill

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Teach Climate Justice in 2020

Lesson Spotlight: Teaching How the Movement Against Fossil Fuels Is Changing the World

This role play engages students in building solidarity among different groups from across the globe, from China to Canada, India to the United States, who are fighting fossil fuels and building an alternative future.

Teaching climate justice means putting students in the position where they can understand the importance of working for a fossil fuel-free world. This lesson helps them imagine themselves in the roles of grassroots activists. Download the lesson for free.

Visit our Teach Climate Justice site to access lessons, teaching stories, and other climate justice resources

Take the Pledge

The climate crisis is not going away.

Teaching for climate justice is

work we all need to do, all year long.

Here is what some teachers who took the pledge say about why they teach climate justice:

My students will be living with the consequences of climate change directly. They are living in flood-prone areas and poor neighborhoods.

---- Ann Milton, High School Social Studies Teacher, Tampa, Florida

The climate emergency threatens the farms where my students' families work and get their food... It matters that my students, who are just starting to feel the effects of climate disaster in these ways, understand their connections to people all over the world on the front lines of the crisis.

---- Bethany Hobbs, High School Social Studies Teacher, Greenfield, Massachusetts

You cannot separate social justice from climate change, environmental racism or the debilitating impact of climate injustice on health care and food security.

---- Joy Barnes-Johnson, High School Chemistry and Social Studies Teacher, Princeton, New Jersey

Essential Guide:

A People's Curriculum for the Earth

A People's Curriculum for the Earth is an educator's toolkit for our times."

---- Naomi Klein, author of This Changes Everything: Capitalism vs. The Climate

At a time when it's becoming increasingly obvious that life on Earth is at risk, here is a resource that helps students see what's wrong and imagine solutions.

This collection of articles, role plays, simulations, stories, poems, and graphics helps breathe life into teaching about the environmental crisis.

Order your copy at RethinkingSchools.org

Share Your Story ---- Get Three Free Books!

Describe how you used one or more of our climate justice lessons to teach about climate change, environmental activism, and issues related to land rights , to participate in the book giveaway.

The Teach Climate Justice campaign is made possible by support from individuals like you. Please donate today so that more teachers receive free lessons, books, and workshops to support Climate Justice teaching in their classrooms. The future depends on your support. Donate now!

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