Welcome to the wiki resource site for the book-in-progress: Addressing Climate Change in the English Language Arts Classroom: Empowering Students to Critically Read, Write, and Act Upon the Environmental Crisis of our Time, Richard Beach, Allen Webb, and Jeff Share

The vast majority of scientists agree, climate change is the most significant challenge facing the human race and life on earth. How climate change is understood and how it is addressed in the near future will profoundly impact how the effects of this crisis will unfold. Educators at all levels and in many disciplines need the tools, lessons, and pedagogy to make climate change a central theme (powerful component) of their teaching.

The purpose of Addressing Climate Change in the English Language Arts Classroom is to provide elementary through college English language arts (ELA) teachers with pedagogy, frameworks, resources, lessons, and activities for engaging with issues and aspects of climate change. While it is often assumed that climate change is or should be addressed primarily in science or social studies/geography classes, given the growing student concern and interest in the effects of climate change, Addressing Climate Change in the English Language Arts Classroom demonstrates that ELA teachers are increasingly focusing on this topic in their literature, composition, speaking/listening, and media/digital literacy units. ELA teachers are also working with science and social studies/geography to create interdisciplinary lessons related to climate change.

For the book's Table of Contents see the Sidebar to the right. Click on each chapter, for links to sites and resources, class activities and units, and further reading related to the topics in these chapters. 

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