Climate Change Resources

Explore a range of science-based lesson plans, activities, and ideas from NSTA to help you integrate climate change into your classroom.

Teaching Resources

FREE Lesson Plans & Science Films

Our Beautiful Planet is a series of compelling 5-7 minute science films highlighting the cutting-edge research that climate scientists are doing to solve some of the world’s most pressing issues.

NSTA, The Climate Initiative, and Kikim Media have partnered to launch these films and this collection of classroom-ready lesson plans that highlight the science and engineering practices scientists use to explain the phenomenon of climate change.

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Lesson Plans

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Why Are the Temperatures Changing?

Elementary

How Does Eating Beef Affect Climate Change?

Middle School

Why Might There Be a Future Without Coffee, and Can We Do Anything About It?

High School

Publications

NSTA Press Books & E-books

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The Changing Earth, Grade 8: STEM Road Map for Middle School

edited by: Carla C. Johnson, Janet B. Walton, and Erin Peters-Burton

Ocean's Effect on Weather and Climate

Interactive E-book

Ocean's Effect on Weather and Climate (Student Edition)

Interactive E-book Student Edition

Resources and Human Impact

Interactive E-book

Resources and Human Impact (Student Edition)

Interactive E-book Student Edition

Journal Articles

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Rain Gardens and Rain Gauges: Students get hands on with data while evaluating green infrastructure at their school

Two modules were designed for high school science students to investigate the performance of a rain garden installed on school property. The rain gard...

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Raising a Voice for Change

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Empowering Student Action Through Climate Literacy Development

In light of the International Panel on Climate Change's findings, this article underscores the detrimental effects of climate misinformation in the U....

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Exploring Climate Change through Students’ Place Connections and Public Data Sets

Climate change is a pressing societal challenge. It is also a pedagogical challenge and a worldwide phenomenon, whose local impacts vary across differ...