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Environmental Education

This guide contains web resources related to environmental education, biodiversity, and climate change.

Featured Books from your ATA Library

Ecologizing Education

This book explores how we can reenvision education to meet the demands of an unjust and rapidly changing world by using a pedagogical approach that seeks to instill eco-conscious and socially just change at the cultural level.

Learning from Doodoom Aki (Mother Earth) Through Children's Land-Based Play

Bring a richer way of living with the land to the children in your care in this space of meeting between Indigenous and settler worldviews. Come into a deeper understanding of the natural pattern of children's unstructured outdoor play as you learn to make connections and relationships with the land you live on.

Empowering Youth to Confront the Climate Crisis in English Language Arts

This resource provides everything teachers need to help young people understand and address the climate emergency through supportive and empowering transformational learning. While the focus is on high school and middle school English Language Arts, there are also relevant and inspiring elementary examples.

Teaching Climate Change in Primary Schools

This important and timely book provides an overview of climate change and highlights the importance of including climate change education in primary schools. It emphasises the importance of cross-curricular pedagogical approaches with a focus on climate justice, providing in-depth assistance for teaching children aged 3-13 years. Informed by up to date research, the book helps teachers to remain faithful to climate change science whilst not overwhelming children.

Plants, People, and Places

For millennia, plants and their habitats have been fundamental to the lives of Indigenous Peoples - as sources of food and nutrition, medicines, and technological materials - and central to ceremonial traditions, spiritual beliefs, narratives, and language…Plants, People, and Places argues that the time is long past due to recognize and accommodate Indigenous Peoples' relationships with plants and their ecosystems.

How to Confront Climate Denial

Climate change and climate denial have remained largely off the radar in literacy and social studies education. This book addresses that gap with the design of the Climate Denial Inquiry Model (CDIM) and clear examples of how educators and students can confront two forms of climate denial: science denial and action denial.

The Climate Book

We still have time to change the world. From climate activist Greta Thunberg, comes the essential handbook for making it happen…In The Climate Book, Greta Thunberg has gathered the wisdom of over one hundred experts - geophysicists, oceanographers and meteorologists; engineers, economists and mathematicians; historians, philosophers and indigenous leaders - to equip us all with the knowledge we need to combat climate disaster.

Rethinking Environmental Education in a Climate Change Era

This book re-situates weather in early childhood education, examining people as inherently a part of and affected by nature, and challenges the positioning of humans at the centre of progress and decision-making. This book works with the pedagogical potential in children's relations with weather as a vital way of connecting with and responding to wider climate concerns.

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