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Earth Day 2020

Most teachers say they don’t teach climate change because they feel it’s outside their subject area. Yet we English language arts teachers know better. —Millie Davis, “Why Our Students Need Us to Teach about Climate Change

 

As we celebrate Earth Day 2020, explore the possibilities for discussion and investigation in these ¥ resources:

  • Three ¥ authors (Richard Beach, Jeff Share, Allen Webb) demonstrate how we can address this subject with “with enormous ethical, social, political, and cultural dimensions” within our own curriculum.  illustrates how the can come to life when we fit the subject into existing courses and use already available materials. The book gives teachers tools and teaching ideas to support building climate change material into their own classrooms and features a .
  • Hear the authors talk about the book in .
  • Read the Council Chronicle پ

 

 

 

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