Teach Climate Justice? Tell Your Story and Get a Free Book!

How do you teach climate justice?

The Zinn Education Project Teach Climate Justice campaign offers free lessons and a timeline about climate change and what people can do about it. We want to hear from teachers who have used Zinn Education Project resources to teach about climate change in any subject.

Thanks to donations by an author and publishers, we will send you a copy of Paradise on Fire by Jewell Parker Rhodes, The World We Need: Stories and Lessons from America’s Unsung Environmental Movement by Audrea Lim, or We Are the Middle of Forever: Indigenous Voices from Turtle Island on the Changing Earth edited by Dahr Jamail and Stan Rushworth in appreciation for your teaching story.

Describe how you used one or more of our lessons or the climate crisis timeline to teach about climate change, environmental activism, and issues related to land rights to participate in the book giveaway. You may offer teaching stories about any of our climate justice lessons or timeline:

• Climate Crisis Timeline by Mimi Eisen and Ursula Wolfe-Rocca
• The (Young) People’s Climate Conference: Teaching Global Warming to 3rd Graders by Rowan Shafer
• Climate Change Mixer by Bill Bigelow
• The Climate Crisis Trial: A Role Play on the Roots of Global Warming By Bill Bigelow
• ‘Don’t Take Our Voices Away’: A Role Play on the Indigenous Peoples’ Global Summit on Climate Change by Julie Treick O’Neill and Tim Swinehart
• Food, Farming, and Justice: A Role Play on La Vía Campesina by Bill Bigelow, Chris Buehler, Julie Treick O’Neill, and Tim Swinehart.
• Paradise Lost: Introducing Students to Climate Change Through Story by Brady Bennon
• The Red Dot of Environmental Racism by Alma Anderson McDonald
• Teaching Climate Disobedience: Using the Film Necessity in the Classroom by Ursula Wolfe-Rocca
• Teaching Sacrifice Zones by Rosemarie Frascella
• Teaching to the Heart: Poetry, Climate Change, and Sacred Spaces by Michelle Nicola
• The Thingamabob Game: A Simulation on Capitalism vs. the Climate by Bill Bigelow
• Water and Environmental Racism by Matt Reed and Ursula Wolfe-Rocca
• Where Are the Climate Change Superheroes? Systems Thinking and Climate Activism in the Children’s Eternal Rainforest by Eric Fishman
• and more.

See What Teachers Are Saying to explore our library of classroom stories. Submit your Teach Climate Justice story and it may appear on our website. When filling out the form, let us know which book you would like to receive.