Nine Climate Change Books for Educators. Yale Climate Connections
The Teacher-Friendly Guide™ to Climate Change. The Paleontological Research Institution
12 new climate change books for professors and teachers. Yale Climate Connections
12 New Books Explore Fresh Approaches to Act on Climate Change. Yale Climate Connections
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Alliance for Climate Education. (2015). Climate change education program works. Author.
The Association for the Study of Literature and Environment (ASLE) online bibliography
Alexander, B. (2023). Universities on fire: Higher education in the climate crisis. Johns Hopkins University Press
Armstrong, A. K., Karsny, M. E., & Schuldt, J. P. (2018). Communicating climate change: A guide for educators. Comstock Publishing
Beach, R. (2015). Imagining a future for the planet through literature, writing, images, and drama. Journal of Adolescent and Adult Literacy, 59(1), 7-13.
Beach, R., Boggs, G., Castek, J., Damico, J., Pano, A., Spellman, R., & Wilson, N. (2020). Fostering preservice and in-service ELA teachers’ digital practices for addressing climate change. Contemporary Issues in Technology and Teacher Education, 20(1).
Beach, R., & Smith, B. (Eds.). Youth created media on the climate crisis: Hear our voices. Routledge.
Bedford, D. & Cook, J. (2017). Climate change: Examining the facts. Santa Barbara, CA: ABC-CLIO.
Bennet, J. (2016). A global warming primer. BigKidsBooks (for grades 9 and up).
Bertling, J. G. (2023). Art education for a sustainable planet: Embracing ecopedagogy in K–12 classrooms. Teachers College Press.
Bigelow, B. (2014). A peoples curriculum for the earth: Teaching Climate change and the environmental crisis. Rethinking Schools
Bigelow, B., & Swinehart, T. (Eds.). (2015). A people's curriculum for the earth teaching climate change and the environmental crisis. Milwaukee, WI: Rethinking Schools
Blaum, D., Griffin, T. D., Wiley, J. & Britt, M. A. (2017). Thinking about global warming: Effect of policy-related documents and prompts on learning about causes of climate change. Discourse Processes, 54(4).
Bowers, C. (2014). Ecological and cultural critique of the Common Core Curriculum. New York: Peter Lang.
Busch, K. C. (2015). Polar bears or people? Exploring ways in which teachers frame climate change in the classroom. International Journal of Science Education
California Department of Education, A Blueprint for Environmental Literacy.
Center for Engineering Solutions to Climate Change (2018). 21st-Century Engineering Solutions for Climate Change. Cavendish Square Publishing (textbook series)
Chang, C-H., Kidman, G., & Wi, A. (Eds.) (2020). Issues in reaching and learning of education for sustainability: Theory into practice. Routledge.
Cook, J. (2020). CRANKY UNCLE vs. CLIMATE CHANGE: How to Understand and Respond to Climate Deniers. Author.
DeMocker, M. (2018). The parents' guided to climate revolution: 100 ways to build a fossil-free future, raise empowered kids, and still get a good night’s sleep. New World Library.
Derby, M. W. (2015). Place, being, resonance: A critical ecohermeneutic approach to education. New York: Peter Lang.
Diavolo, L. (Ed.). (2021). No Planet B: A teen vogue guide to the climate crisis. GoodReads
Douglas, P. (2022). A kid's guide to saving the planet. Beaming Books
Four Arrows. (2016). Point of departure: Returning to our more authentic worldview for education and survival. Charlotte, NC: Information Age Publishing
Fretz, E. (Ed.). (2015). Climate change across the curriculum. Lanham, MD: Rowan & Littlefield.
Frontiers for Young Minds: Science Edited For Kids By Kids
Gale Group. (2015). For professors, teaching about climate change involves several fronts. Educators Reference Complete
Gardiner, L. S. (2018). Tales from an uncertain world (free opening chapter). University of Iowa Press.
Garrard, G. (Ed.) (2011). Teaching ecocriticism and green cultural studies. Palgrave.
Gildersleeve, R. E., & Kleinhesse, K. (Eds.). (2019). Special issue on the Anthropocene in the study of higher education. Philosophy and Theory in Higher Education, 1(1).
Goleman, D., Bennett, L., & Barlow, Z. (2011). Ecoliterate: How educators are cultivating emotional, social, and ecological Intelligence. San Francisco: Jossey Bass.
Goodreads: Climate Change Book Lists
Granshaw, F. (2020). Climate toolkit: A resource manual for science and action. PDXScholar
Grant, T. & Littlejohn, G. (2001). Teaching about climate change: Cool schools tackle global warming. Niagara Falls, NY: Green Teacher.
Grant, T., & Littlejohn, G. (Eds.). (2004). Teaching green: The middle years. Niagara Falls, NY: Green Teacher.
Grant, T., & Littlejohn, G. (Eds.). (2009). Teaching green: The high school years: hands-on learning in grades 9-12. Niagara Falls, NY: Green Teacher.
Grant, T., & Littlejohn, G. (Eds.). (2018). Teaching teens about climate change. Niagara Falls, NY: Green Teacher.
Hall, S., LeMenager, S., Siperstein, S. (Eds.). (2016). Teaching climate change in the humanities. New York: Routledge
Heitin, L. (2015). Textbooks out of step with scientists on climate change, study says. Education Week
Henson, R. (2019). The thinking person’s guide to climate change, 2nd edition. Boston, MA: American Meteorological Society.
Hoffman, A. (2015). How culture shapes the climate change debate. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press.
Hoysia, J., Bartosch, R., & Gurr, J. M. (2023). Climate change literacy. Cambridge University Press
Hufnagel, E. (2015). Preservice elementary teachers' emotional connections and disconnections to climate change in a science course. Journal of Research in Science Teaching, 52(9), 1296-1324.
Hung, C. C. (2014). Climate change education: Knowing, doing and being. New York: Routledge.
Hunter (2019). The Climate Resistance Handbook. 350.org publication (free download)
Jacobson, M. J., Markauskaite, L., Portolese, A., Kapur, M., Lai, P. K., & Roberts, G. (2017). Designs for learning about climate change as a complex system. Learning and Instruction
Janks, H. et al. (2014). Doing critical literacy: Texts and activities for teachers. New York: Routledge.
Johnson, A. E., & Wilkinson, K. K. (Eds.). (2020). All we can save: Truth, courage, and solutions for the climate crisis. New York: Penguin.
Johnson, C. C., Walton, J. B., & Peters-Burt, E. E. (Eds.). (2022). Our changing environment: Grade K STEM road map for elementary school. Routledge.
Johnson, R. (2011). Climate Change Education in K-12: Teacher preparation, understanding, needs and concerns. Retrieved from National Academies ORG.
Kahn, R. (2010). Critical pedagogy, ecoliteracy, and planetary crisis: The Ecopedagogy Movement. Amsterdam: Sense Publishers
Kagawa, F. & Selby, D. (Eds.). (2012). Education and climate change: Living and learning in interesting times. New York: Routledge.
Kerr, J. (2017). Introduction to energy and climate: Developing a sustainable environment. New York: Routledge.
Klein, N. (2022). How to change everything: The young human's guide to protecting the planet and each other. Simon & Schuster.
Körfgen, A., Keller, L., Kuthe, A., Oberrauch, A., & Stötter, H. (2017). Change in young people's minds: From categories towards interconnections between the anthroposphere and natural sphere. Science of The Total Environment, 580(15), 178-187.
Kwauk, C., & Winthrop, R. (2021, March 26). Unleashing the creativity of teachers and students to combat climate change: An opportunity for global leadership. Brookings.
Le, K. T. (20210. Teaching climate change for grades 6–12: Empowering science teachers to take on the climate crisis through NGSS. Routledge
Ledley, T. S., Rooney-Varga, J., & Niepold, F. (2017). Addressing climate change through education. Encyclopedia of Environmental Science
Leiserowitz, A., Smith, N. & Marlon, J. (2011). American teens’ knowledge of climate change. Yale Project on Climate Change Communication.
Lukas, D. (2016). Language making nature. The Conversation: Handbook on relationship between language and nature
Lysgaard, J. A., Stefan Bengtsson, S., & Laugesen, M. H-L. (2019). Dark pedagogy: Introduction: Living in dark times. (introductory chapter). Springer
Martusewicz, R. A., Edmundson, J., & Lupinacci, J. (2011). EcoJustice education: Toward diverse, democratic, and sustainable communities. New York: Routledge.
Matthewman, S. R., & Morgan, J. (2014). Sharpening New Zealand’s Future-Focus: a scenaric approach. SET: Future Education Special Issue, (1), 24-32.
Matthewman, S. R. (2014). Clearing the ground for a greener New Zealand English. English Teaching Practice and Critique, 13 (1), 95-111.
Matthewman, S. R. (2014). Ecocriticism in Aotearoa. English in Aotearoa, (82), 26-38.
Matthewan, S. (2011). Teaching secondary English as if the planet matters. New York: Routledge.
McKillben, B. (2019). Falter: Has the human game begun to play out? Henry Holt
Millar, R. (2014). Teaching about energy. School Science Review
Misiaszek, G. W. (2020). Ecopedagogy: Critical environmental teaching for planetary justice and global sustainable development. Bloomsbury
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Paleontological Institute. The teacher-friendly guide to teaching about climate change.
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Turner, R. J. (2015). Teaching for ecojustice: Curriculum and lessons for secondary and college classrooms. New York: Routledge
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