SDGs Teaching Resources
SDG 13: Climate Action
Take urgent action to combat climate change and its impacts.Use one or more of the Generation Global resources to teach about this SDG in your learning community. Select the resource you would like to use to learn more:
Video Conferences
Schedule a live dialogue
Topic Module
Assign a self-paced online lesson
SDG Briefings
Download latest stats and facts
In-class activities
Teach in-person activities
Tips and examples for aligning this SDG with your class:
- Use dialogue to make real life connections between the content and subject you teach and what young people are experiencing regarding the issue.
- Use Dialogue as an activity that you come back to at key moments of a project to revisit the topic from various points of view and to reflect. For example, you might want to enter a dialogue on the subject before you teach a project, to help learners get personally connected, then host another dialogue at the end to help them explore what was learned and any new ideas that have come from the experience.
- Use data and facts about a topic only as a catalyst for the dialogue, not in the dialogue itself. Be sure to allow learners the space to bring their own personal experiences into the conversation and to explore instead of debating an issue.
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Math |
Calculate the increase in temperature and its impact on the earth using math modelling and variance analysis, then book a video conference where learners can dialogue about the consequences they are seeing in their own communities and others. (See this lesson plan from EarthDay Network as an example for making calculations) |
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Sciences |
Have learners create a journal to record their daily activities and carbon footprint for 1-2 weeks and then participate in a dialogue to explore the way their culture, community, and lifestyle impacts climate change. (See Generation Global Activity 'What Influences me?' to prepare for the dialogue) |
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Social Science |
Ask learners to complete the topic on Climate Change in the Ultimate Dialogue Adventure and create a question for their peers in the dialogue space about climate justice. Share back in a group dialogue what they have learned from their peers in the written dialogue space. (Use lesson plan 2.3 from the Generation Global Climate Change resource to teach about climate justice) |
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Language Arts |
Support learners in self-expression and using actionable language by asking them to complete sentence stems that articulate something they will do to address climate change. Learners can practice sharing these ideas in the written Dialogue Space of the Climate Change topic on the Ultimate Dialogue Adventure with their peers. |
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Personal Development |
Support learners in self-expression and using actionable language by asking them to complete sentence stems that articulate something they will do to address climate change. Learners can practice sharing these ideas in the written Dialogue Space of the Climate Change topic on the Ultimate Dialogue Adventure with their peers. |
Additional external activities and resources:
Libraries (videos, articles, interactive activities)
- National Geographic - https://education.nationalgeographic.org/resource/resource-library-climate-change
- NASA - https://climate.nasa.gov/for-educators/
Videos
- The Uninhabitable Present - Young Climate Advocates in South Sudan - From UNICEF https://youtu.be/jKcmAWfWMr8
- What does climate action mean to you - From UNICEF https://youtu.be/30dsGAlO3X4
- Green Ninja (short films) - from Green Ninja https://greenninja.org/Green_Ninja_Show
- Climate Change and Mental Health - from Youth Takes https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0aYIfAjPKPY