Teaching About Climate

A Note from the National Offices:

Climate change is a complex topic that can be intimidating to teach. However, understanding climate, including the ways it is changing and how that impacts the environment, is crucial to making informed decisions and building resilience.

Environmental education is not isolated to water, forests or animals. It connects everything. The resources listed below are meant to help you teach about climate change in a holistic way. They will provide your students with engaging educational experiences that will help them understand climate resilience for communities and the environment. As leaders in environmental education, Project Learning Tree, Project WET, and Project WILD provide hands-on activities that grounded in our each of our environmental focuses. 

Each lesson is a stand-alone activity and can be taught by itself or as part of a larger unit. We encourage you to form lesson plans that fit your scope and sequence, using lessons from all three of our organizations to teach about the impacts of climate change on water, trees and wildlife in your local communities. We hope these lessons will inspire you and your students to develop innovative solutions to address challenges that are arising as a result of climate change. We invite you to learn more about our organizations and the unique climate changes initiatives we are working on by visiting our websites here projectwet.org, plt.org,  projectwild.org and clicking logos below for climate specific resource.

Project WET, WILD, & Learning Tree