Climate Mental Health Support Activities
Lesson Plans
Grades4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9Science, English Language Arts, Health
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Provided by Climate Mental Health Network
What it is
- This digital guidebook of activities enables teachers to support students as they navigate feelings of anxiety regarding climate change realities.
- Teachers can use the information to provide positive approaches to emotional concerns about our planet, while the activities can easily be inserted into an existing science unit on climate change.
- The entire guide can be downloaded and separated into a series of lessons and discussions for a number of grade levels, and there are mental health support strategies for educators as well.
Teaching tips
Positives
- Included are warm-up, classroom, extra-curricular, and closing activities arranged in a clear order.
- Each activity has an instructional overview summary so educators can quickly view learning objectives, materials needed, differentiation, and strategies.
- There are helpful sidebars that provide educator strategies.
Additional Prerequisites
- Teachers may wish to have a preliminary discussion regarding the emotions involved in learning about climate change.
- Since this guide has a social-emotional focus, teachers may wish to review state laws about SEL.
Differentiation
- The activities contained in the resource are created for social-emotional learning in any curriculum subject.
- Science classes can utilize some of the activities in this resource to help students remain positive and focus on solutions.
- Connections can be made in English classes by having students correlate eco-anxiety to climate change solutions highlighted by young people. Students can research teen environmental heroes of the 21st century to write about.
- In social studies classes, students can use the activities as a starting point to a larger study of global climate justice.
From the scientist review
The resource highlights climate anxiety and how it is becoming an important issue to discuss, especially amongst younger generations. This resource is well-researched and cited and is recommended for teaching.
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