Civilizations and Climate Vulnerability: The Khmer Empire

Civilizations and Climate Vulnerability: The Khmer Empire Overview As a High School or Undergraduate teacher of History or Social Sciences, you can use this set of computer-based tools to teach about civilizations, decline of civilizations or empires, and societal vulnerability to climate-related extreme events. This lesson plan will help students to learn about Angkor and […]

How to Read and Analyze Poetry

How to Read and Analyze Poetry Overview As a High School English Language teacher, you can use this lesson plan to teach your students how to read and analyze poetry and to use these techniques to examine climate related poems. In this lesson plan, students will be taught how to read poetry and identify elements […]

Reading and Listening Comprehension in French (Intermediate and Advanced Levels)

Reading and Listening Comprehension in French (Intermediate and Advanced Levels) Overview As a High School or Undergraduate French language teacher or a teacher of French as a second language (intermediate or advanced level), you can use this set of computer-based tools to teach climate change-related French vocabulary through reading comprehension and listening comprehension exercises. This […]

Literary Analysis using Climate Fiction (Cli-Fi)

Literary Analysis using Climate Fiction (Cli-Fi) Overview As a High School and Undergraduate Humanities teacher in English, you can use this lesson plan to teach literary analysis of a novel (climate fiction). The recently recognized literary genre of ‘Cli-Fi’ is a valuable means by which students can engage with key concepts of climate change and […]

Teaching Verb Tenses through Climate Literature

Teaching Verb Tenses through Climate Literature Overview As a Middle or High School English teacher or a teacher of English as a second language, you can use this set of computer-based tools to teach tenses using climate literature. Global warming is causing glaciers to melt thus causing a water crisis. Satellite imagery is used to […]

Enhancing French Vocabulary: Written and Spoken Language

Enhancing French Vocabulary: Written and Spoken Language Overview As a Middle or High School French teacher or a teacher of French as a second language (basic or elementary level), you can use this set of computer-based tools to teach climate related French vocabulary and its usage in creative writing and spoken discussion. Climate change is […]

English for Academic Purposes: Note Making and Summary Writing Using Climate Literature

English for Academic Purposes: Note Making and Summary Writing Using Climate Literature Overview As a high school or undergraduate English teacher, you can use a climate change related spoken text to help you in teaching note making and summary writing, as part of English for Academic Purposes (EAP). The lesson involves training students to listen […]

William Blake’s ‘Chimney Sweeper’ Poems: Ode to the Industrial Age

William Blake’s ‘Chimney Sweeper’ Poems: Ode to the Industrial Age Overview As a high school and Undergraduate English Literature teacher, you can use two of William Blake’s poems, both titled “The Chimney Sweeper”, to teach your students how to interpret poetic texts. These poems may serve as an introduction to the genre of Romantic poetry […]

Listening Comprehension: Talk by Climate Activist, Greta Thunberg

Listening Comprehension: Talk by Climate Activist, Greta Thunberg Overview As a Middle School and High School English Language teacher, you can use a talk about climate change and an associated comprehension quiz to help you teach listening comprehension. This lesson plan uses the TED talk, “The disarming case to act right now on climate change” […]

Lesson Plan: Reading Techniques: A study of “Geology of Mankind”

Reading Techniques: A study of “Geology of Mankind” Overview Overview As a high school English teacher, you can use this lesson plan to help you in teaching reading and analysis skills as part of English Language Teaching (ELT). The lesson plan involves training students in skills such as skimming and close reading, and comprehension based […]