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Teaching Climate Change Today: Carbon Act’s Practical Guide With Real Teacher Stories
How can climate change become a powerful tool for learning across subjects?
The Carbon Act project has published “Teaching Climate Change Today: A Practical Guide,” a free resource designed to help teachers integrate climate education into everyday lessons without adding extra workload.
What makes this guide stand out are the voices of educators who are already putting climate change into practice in their classrooms. In Croatia, Bojana Oreb connects physics concepts like energy conservation and radiation to the Earth’s balance, showing students how abstract theory explains today’s climate challenges. Fellow Croatian teacher Anita Šimac brings mathematics to life by linking calculations to local climate problems. “When students see their numbers matter for real-world problems,” she explains, “their motivation and confidence grow.” And in Italy, Enrica Maragliano led a flood-prevention project in Genoa that combined history, geography, and science, empowering her students to design solutions for risks facing their own community.
Alongside these inspiring stories, the guide offers:
- 8 examples of practices designed by peers and used in classrooms
- Practical advice on how to integrate climate education into existing subjects without adding extra workload.
- Approaches to make lessons interdisciplinary, connecting STEM with social sciences and the arts.
- Examples of how local projects, from wildfire studies to air quality monitoring, can help global awareness.
- Evidence of the impact of student-led initiatives in increasing engagement, confidence, and action.
The message is clear: effective climate education is not about teaching more, but about teaching differently. By making lessons interdisciplinary, local, and action-oriented, teachers can help students see the real-world impact of their knowledge. When climate education is done well, students learn about the world and also how to engage with it critically and responsibly.
Teaching Climate Change Today: A Practical Guide is available now in English, Polish, French, Serbian, and Swedish! Read it today!