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” […]

Climate Denial: How language is used to misinform

Climate Denial: How language is used to misinform Overview Overview As a high school Humanities teacher in English or Communications, you can use this set of computer-based tools to help you teach students persuasive language techniques. It focuses on language techniques used in climate communication, specifically how climate misinformation has been used by a range […]

Introduction to Climate Change Economics

Introduction to Climate Change Economics Video A video micro lecture by David Archer, The University of Chicago, titled ‘The Economics of Climate Change’ which is a part of an e-learning course on science and modelling of climate change. This video discusses the ‘tragedy of commons’ to understand how climate change impacts society. The lecture also […]

Climate Change in the Economics Classroom

Climate Change in the Economics Classroom Video A video lecture by Rahul Chopra, TROP ICSU and IISER Pune on climate change educational resources that Economics teachers can use in their classrooms. These educational resources integrate climate change understanding with the core curriculum in Economics. This video lecture is part of an online e-learning course (MOOC) […]

Teach the Earth’s Climate System Through Simulations (Build Your Own Earth)

Teach the Earth’s Climate System Through Simulations (Build Your Own Earth) Overview Overview As an Undergraduate Earth Sciences, Environmental Sciences, or Geography teacher, you can use this lesson plan to teach the Earth’s climate system and help your students understand different aspects of Earth’s climate through the use of simulations. This lesson plan is based […]

Teach the Earth’s Climate System Through Simulations (Earth-Like)

Teach the Earth’s Climate System Through Simulations (Earth-Like) Overview As a Middle or High School Earth Sciences, Environmental Sciences, or Geography teacher, you can use this lesson plan to teach the Earth’s climate system and help your students understand different aspects of Earth’s climate using simulations. This lesson plan is based on the webbased tool […]