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 […]

Climate Change and the Environmental Humanities

Climate Change and the Environmental Humanities Overview Overview As an Undergraduate Humanities (Cultural Studies, Literature, History) teacher, you can use this lesson plan to teach critical analysis of a comprehensive text in climate literature. Dipesh Chakrabarty, a Lawrence A. Kimpton Distinguished Service Professor of History, South Asian Languages, Civilizations and Law, at the University of […]

Climate Fiction “Hermie”- A Case of Climate Change

Climate Fiction “Hermie”- A Case of Climate Change Overview Overview As a high school  or undergraduate English Literature teacher, you can use this climate fiction short story to teach literary analysis of fiction through narrative strategies such as dialogue, chronology, and descriptive richness as used in a short story, the use of figures of speech […]

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 […]

Poverty and Climate: An Inextricable Link

Poverty and Climate: An Inextricable Link Overview Overview As a High School or Undergraduate Economics or Social Sciences teacher, you can use this set of computer-based tools to help you in teaching about poverty, the impact of climate change on global poverty and the ways to manage it in the current and future scenarios. This […]