Climate Mental Health Support Activities

• This digital guidebook of activities enables teachers to support students as they navigate feelings of anxiety regarding climate change realities. 
• Teachers can use the information to provide positive approaches to emotional concerns about our planet, while the activities can easily be inserted into an existing science unit on climate change.
• The entire guide can be downloaded and separated into a series of lessons and discussions for a number of grade levels, and there are mental health support strategies for educators as well. 

Positives

• Included are warm-up, classroom, extra-curricular, and closing activities arranged in a clear order. 
• Each activity has an instructional overview summary so educators can quickly view learning objectives, materials needed, differentiation, and strategies. 
• There are helpful sidebars that provide educator strategies.
  

Additional Prerequisites

• Teachers may wish to have a preliminary discussion regarding the emotions involved in learning about climate change. 
• Since this guide has a social-emotional focus, teachers may wish to review state laws about SEL. 

Differentiation

• The activities contained in the resource are created for social-emotional learning in any curriculum subject. 
• Science classes can utilize some of the activities in this resource to help students remain positive and focus on solutions.
  
• Connections can be made in English classes by having students correlate eco-anxiety to climate change solutions highlighted by young people. Students can research teen environmental heroes of the 21st century to write about.
• In social studies classes, students can use the activities as a starting point to a larger study of global climate justice. 
  

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