• Why Teach Climate Change?

• Ways to Introduce Climate Change: Instead of burdening educators with additional stand-alone, complex areas to study, the good news is that Environmental Literacy can become a part of subjects and activities already in your state’s core curriculum standards in science, math, social studies, and language arts.
• Climate Fiction: As Earth’s changing climate becomes an ever-increasing concern, young readers are turning to climate fiction as a way to engage their imaginations and deal with their fears in the safety of their present environment. The teens in these climate fiction stories demonstrate courage, tenacity, compassion, imagination, and foresight. So, although the events may be upsetting, the reader empathizes with the main characters and finish the last page feeling informed, hopeful, resolute, and inspired.

• Connecting Scientific Concepts with Fiction/Storytelling can be a powerful way to make future consequences more immediate to ourselves and our students. Fiction can be woven into teaching environmental science and climate change as outlined in the core curriculum standards

• After reading appropriate fiction, Language Arts teachers can Inspire Lively discussions by interweaving the Theme of Climate Change.

• Social Studies Teachers and can Inspire Lively discussion around the impact of Climate change on marginalized groups in their own communities and around the globe (Social Justice).

Tags: claire Datnow, Enviornmental Fiction, Environmental Education , climate change, Environment and Ecology

Tags: Adventures of The Sizzling Six, claire Datnow, National Environmental Education , Eco Mystery, Eco Mystery series, Project-Based Learning, Environmental Education , Environmental Fiction in the Classroom, Environmental Literacy, Environmetal Literacy, Monarch Butterflies, Red-cockaded woodpecker, Who Stole The Cahaba Lily, Fresh water mussels, Who Kidnapped the Koala, the Lone Tree, Ecological awareness through fiction, eco Detective