Teaching Climate Change Essentials
This six-week professional development program is a comprehensive online course supplying teachers with the skills and knowledge necessary to implement climate change instruction into their classrooms.
Formats: Online: Asynchronous, Online: Synchronous
Target Audiences: Curriculum Specialists, Teachers
Target Grade Levels: K-2, 3-5, 6-8, 9-12
Subjects: Career Readiness, Life Literacies, and Key Skills, Comprehensive Health and Physical Education, Computer Science and Design Thinking, English Language Arts, Mathematics, Science, Social Studies, Visual and Performing Arts, World Languages
Date(s) Offered: January 17 - February 24 2023; March 20 - April 28 2023; June 5 - July 14 2023
Length of Time: 45 hours
Topics: Climate Change Basics - Causes, Impacts, Solutions; Teaching Methods - Climate Literacy, Environmental Justice
Opportunity Type: Course
Teaching Climate
This guide is designed to help middle and high school science teachers incorporate climate topics into their classrooms.
Format: Online: Asynchronous
Target Audience: Teachers
Target Grade Levels: 6-8, 9-12
Subject: Science
Topics: Teaching Methods - Climate Literacy
Opportunity Type: Guide
Teaching Climate (Spanish)
This Teaching Climate (Spanish Translation) guide is designed to help middle and high school science teachers incorporate climate topics into their classrooms.
Format: Online: Asynchronous
Target Audience: Teachers
Target Grade Levels: 6-8, 9-12
Subjects: Science, World Languages
Topics: Teaching Methods - Climate Literacy
Opportunity Type: Guide
Teaching Energy (Spanish)
This Teaching Energy (Spanish Translation) guide is designed to help middle and high school teachers incorporate energy topics into their classrooms.
Format: Online: Asynchronous
Target Audience: Teachers
Target Grade Levels: 6-8, 9-12
Subjects: Science, World Languages
Topics: Teaching Methods - Climate Literacy
Opportunity Type: Guide
Teaching Energy
This guide is designed to help middle and high school science teachers incorporate energy topics into their classrooms.
Format: Online: Asynchronous
Target Audience: Teachers
Target Grade Levels: 6-8, 9-12
Subject: Science
Topics: Teaching Methods - Climate Literacy
Opportunity Type: Guide
Teaching Extreme Weather
This four-week program is designed to enhance K-12 science teachers’ understanding of the factors that contribute to extreme weather events and how these events are linked to climate change.
Format: Online: Asynchronous
Target Audiences: Curriculum Specialists, Teachers
Target Grade Levels: 6-8, 9-12
Subject: Science
Date(s) Offered: January 23 - March 3 2023, April 3 - April 28, 2023, June 12 - July 7, 2023
Length of Time: 15 hours
Topics: Climate Change Basics - Impacts; Teaching Methods - Place-Based
Opportunity Type: Course
Climate Change Crash Course
The interactive and engaging online course summarizes climate change into three easy-to-read chapters.
Format: Online: Asynchronous
Target Audiences: Curriculum Specialists, Teachers
Target Grade Levels: 6-8, 9-12
Subjects: Career Readiness, Life Literacies, and Key Skills, Comprehensive Health and Physical Education, Computer Science and Design Thinking, English Language Arts, Mathematics, Science, Social Studies, Visual and Performing Arts, World Languages
Length of Time: 1 hour
Topics: Climate Change Basics - Causes, Impacts, Solutions
Opportunity Type: Course
New Jersey State Climate Summary
This guide provides a climate summary for the state of New Jersey, allowing teachers, curriculum specialists, and administrators to understand the local and regional impacts of climate change.
Format: Online: Asynchronous
Target Audiences: Curriculum Specialists, School Administrators, Teachers
Target Grade Levels: K-2, 3-5, 6-8, 9-12
Subjects: Career Readiness, Life Literacies, and Key Skills, Comprehensive Health and Physical Education, Computer Science and Design Thinking, English Language Arts, Mathematics, Science, Social Studies, Visual and Performing Arts, World Languages
Topics: Climate Change Basics - Impacts
Opportunity Type: Guide
8 Ways to Teach Climate Change in Almost Any Classroom
This article includes eight tips for how to teach about climate change.
Format: Online: Asynchronous
Target Audience: Teachers
Target Grade Levels: K-2, 3-5, 6-8, 9-12
Subjects: Career Readiness, Life Literacies, and Key Skills, Comprehensive Health and Physical Education, Computer Science and Design Thinking, English Language Arts, Mathematics, Science, Social Studies, Visual and Performing Arts, World Languages
Topics: Teaching Methods - Climate Literacy
Opportunity Type: Guide
Climate Learning Resources
This page features many resources on many different topics.
Format: Online: Asynchronous
Target Audience: Teachers
Target Grade Levels: K-2, 3-5, 6-8, 9-12
Subjects: Mathematics, Science
Topics: Teaching Methods - Culturally Relevant Teaching, Climate Literacy, Environmental Justice
Opportunity Type: Guide
Toolbox for Teaching Climate and Energy
This website features many resources to equip teachers to teach about climate and energy.
Format: Online: Asynchronous
Target Audience: Teachers
Target Grade Levels: K-2, 3-5, 6-8, 9-12
Subject: Science
Topics: Teaching Methods - Climate Literacy
Opportunity Type: Guide
Climate Science, Risk & Solutions: Climate Knowledge for Everyone
This engaging interactive course outlines the causes, impacts, and solutions to climate change.
Format: Online: Asynchronous
Target Audiences: Curriculum Specialists, Teachers
Target Grade Levels: K-2, 3-5, 6-8, 9-12
Subjects: Career Readiness, Life Literacies, and Key Skills, Comprehensive Health and Physical Education, Computer Science and Design Thinking, English Language Arts, Mathematics, Science, Social Studies, Visual and Performing Arts, World Languages
Length of Time: 2 hours
Topics: Climate Change Basics - Causes, Impacts, Solutions
Opportunity Type: Course
Teaching Climate Justice
This four-week course allows K-12 educators to explore the important topics of climate change and environmental justice.
Format: Online: Asynchronous
Target Audiences: Curriculum Specialists, Teachers
Target Grade Levels: K-2, 3-5, 6-8, 9-12
Subjects: Career Readiness, Life Literacies, and Key Skills, Comprehensive Health and Physical Education, Computer Science and Design Thinking, English Language Arts, Mathematics, Science, Social Studies, Visual and Performing Arts, World Languages
Date(s) Offered: February 6 - March 3, 2023; March 13 - April 7, 2023; April 17 - May 12, 2023; June 19 - July 14, 2023
Length of Time: 15 hours
Topics: Climate Change Basics - Impacts; Teaching Methods - Environmental Justice
Opportunity Type: Course
Curriculum Development by Grade Band (K-2, 3-5, MS, HS) [In Person]
Teachers will explore the interdisciplinary NJSLS that specifically reference climate change to connect observable causes and effects in their communities based on the best available science and existing data regarding the current and anticipated environmental effects of climate change.
Format: In Person
Target Audiences: Curriculum Specialists, School Administrators, Teachers
Target Grade Levels: K-2, 3-5, 6-8, 9-12
Subjects: Career Readiness, Life Literacies, and Key Skills, Comprehensive Health and Physical Education, Computer Science and Design Thinking, English Language Arts, Mathematics, Science, Social Studies, Visual and Performing Arts, World Languages
Length of Time: 3 hours
Topics: Teaching Methods - Climate Literacy, Place-Based, Social-Emotional Learning
Introduction to Climate Change, Extreme Weather Events, Sustainability and Environmental Justice for HS Students (and Supervising Teachers) in Career-Technical Education in NJ
Please email the New Jersey Safe Schools Program (NJSS) team at cscbre@sph.
Format: Online: Asynchronous
Target Audience: Teachers
Target Grade Level: 9-12
Subjects: Career Readiness, Life Literacies, and Key Skills, Mathematics, Science, Social Studies
Date(s) Offered: July 11, 2022 through June 20, 2023
Length of Time: 2 hours
Topics: Climate Change Basics - Causes, Impacts; Teaching Methods - Environmental Justice
Opportunity Type: Course