This list of Climate Change Educational Resources has been put together by Ben Ballin and is also available as a downloadable list. Ben is keen to include as many resources as possible and is open to any suggestions you might have for organisations or resources that can be included.
Please feel free to add to or amend this list and send your revised version to wmsussch@gmail.com
Most, but not all, of these resources are accessible online without cost.
Teaching resources, stimulus materials and programmes
A Giant Change: http://www.skipseducational.org/a-giant-change
Association for Science Education:
Climate Change Evidence and Causes: https://www.ase.org.uk/resources/school-science-review/issue-354/climate-change-evidence-and-causes
Effective strategies for talking about climate change in the classroom: https://www.ase.org.uk/resources/school-science-review/issue-354/effective-strategies-talking-about-climate-change
The Adventures of Polo The Bear (Pay-for book):
CBBC: In pictures, the changing world http://news.bbc.co.uk/cbbcnews/hi/newsid_4760000/newsid_4762000/4762089.stm
Climate change, local and global: https://www.tidegloballearning.net/primary-early-years/climate-change-local-and-global-enquiry-approach-feature-article
Supporting resources: https://www.tidegloballearning.net/primary-early-years/publications-support-climate-change-local-global
Climate KIC: https://www.climate-kic.org/programmes/education/
Design and Technology Association: Focus climate change (pay-for digital materials): https://www.data.org.uk/shop-products/focus-climate-change-single-licence/
Eco Schools:
Energy (Primary): https://www.eco-schools.org.uk/eyfs-primary-pathway/ten-topics/energy-2/
Energy (Secondary): https://www.eco-schools.org.uk/
Geographical Association:
(Primary) https://www.geography.org.uk/teaching-resources/investigating-climate-zones-and-climate-change
(Secondary case study): https://www.geography.org.uk/teaching-resources/climate-change-bangladesh
(General) https://www.geography.org.uk/teaching-resources/weather-climate-change/investigating-climate-change
Green Teacher: https://greenteacher.com
Interclimate network: http://www.interclimate.org
Learning to choose: climate change: https://www.tidegloballearning.net/resources/learning-choose
Less CO2 (programme includes free workshops): http://www.lessco2.org.uk
School Energy Efficiency: http://www.schoolenergyefficiency.co.uk
Oxfam climate challenge 7-11: https://www.oxfam.org.uk/education/resources/climate-challenge-7-11
Peacemakers (climate workshops): https://peacemakers.org.uk
Practical Action:
Information: https://practicalaction.org/climate-change
Teaching resources: https://practicalaction.org/climate-change-resources
Royal Geographical Society with IBG):
Climate 4 Classrooms: https://www.rgs.org/schools/teaching-resources/climate-4-classrooms/
Climate Change workshop resources: https://www.rgs.org/schools/teaching-resources/climate-change/
Climate change resources (KS3): https://www.rgs.org/schools/teaching-resources/climate-change-resources-key-stage-three/
Galapagos and El Nino (GCSE resource): https://www.rgs.org/schools/teaching-resources/galapagos-(activities-for-gcse)/
Engineering our climate: https://www.rgs.org/schools/teaching-resources/engineering-our-climate/
60 second guide to climate action: https://www.rgs.org/schools/teaching-resources/60-second-guide-to-sustainable-development-goa-(4)/
Solutions for the planet: https://solutionsfortheplanet.co.uk
Thinking through climate change: http://www.wmnet.org.uk/files/ttcc
Policy and background
The Big Issue: Putting climate change on the curriculum (Part of special edition, April 2019). https://www.bigissue.com/latest/put-climate-change-on-our-curriculum-the-outraged-teens-confronting-ofsted/
The climate curriculum petition: https://www.change.org/p/get-the-climate-crisis-on-the-national-curriculum/psf/promote_or_share?source_location=petition_show
David Hicks. A climate change companion (Book). https://www.teachingforabetterworld.org/
NAEE blogs:
Climate Change is still a Challenge for English Schools
Networks, action and support:
The Climate Coalition: https://www.theclimatecoalition.org/schools
Climate outreach: https://climateoutreach.org
The Climate Reality Project Global Education Group (Facebook)
NAEE (Environmental Education): http://naee.org.uk
SEEd (Sustainability Education): https://se-ed.org.uk
West Midlands Sustainable Schools Network (network of organisations and individuals providing support to schools): https://westmidlandssustainableschoolsnetwork.com
WWF: https://www.facebook.com/WWFUnitedKingdom
Related issues
Hubbub: Plastic fishing: https://www.hubbub.org.uk/plastic-fishing
Move More, Eat Well: http://movemoreeatwell.com
Plant for the planet: https://www.facebook.com/PlantForThePlanetDeutschland
Sussex Green Living: https://www.sussexgreenliving.co.uk/parents-zone/green-education
