Are you a Design Educator?  If you are interested in teaching climate action in your classroom, this guide will help you begin your journey.  Be sure to check out our Getting Started Guides starting with What is Climate Design?

Also, head over to Climate Designers EDU for more resources like our design education podcast Climify, project briefs for your classroom, and New Wave Research Project to help inform a new wave of design education.

Introduction

The following resources are intended to help design educators and students learn more about climate science, sustainability, systems thinking, current technology and projects addressing our climate crisis, and other important information that will allow educators to feel more comfortable adding climate science into the classroom and curriculum.

Important topics to think about introducing into your classroom

• Climate Change 101
• Systems Thinking
• Sustainable Design
• Regenerative Design
• Behavior change
• Biomimicry

A Question to consider:

• Fear and hope driven messaging both have their place, how can you create a classroom environment based on inspiration?

Getting Started

Videos/Films

Start you class with these basic explainers and introductory information for grasping climate change and sustainability.

• The Carbon Cycle in 90 seconds by Peter Griffith and Eric Mortensen / NASA Goddard Science Visualization Studio: Earth and satellite visualizations