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Culture and the Arts play significant roles in promoting climate sustainability by raising awareness, fostering connection, and finding creative solutions to living more harmoniously with the environment.
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Preserving Cultural Heritage
Preserving Cultural Heritage
Audience: Youth, teen, adult
Source: National Geographic
Format: Video, sound, image and text
Audience: Youth, teen, adult
Source: Harvard’s Project Zero
Format: Activities, curriculum, lesson plans, videos
Audience: Teen, adult
Source: Earth Charter
Format: Searchable database of traditional stories from around the world, focused on caring for the environment and each other.
Music, Songs & Chants
Music, Songs & Chants
Audience: Youth, teen, adult
Source: Subject to Climate
Format: Lesson plan and Google Slide show; Lesson can be incorporated into project-based learning
Songs about Nature and the Environment
Audience: Youth, teen, adult
Source: Mindful Teachers blog
Format: Blog posting of over 30 songs from a variety of genres with links to videos, lyrics and audio
Teaching About Weather and Seasons
Audience: Youth, teen, adult
Source: The New York Times Learning Network
Format: Activity ideas
Creative Writing
Creative Writing
Poetry
Teaching to the Heart: Poetry, Climate Change, and Sacred Spaces
Audience: Teen, adult
Source: Subject to Climate
Format: Lesson plan, video, activity
Writing Nature Poetry with Kids
Audience: Youth, teen, adult
Source: Teach Me Outside!
Format: Step-by-step guides to writing different types of poems, with examples
20 Nature Poems for Kids – to inspire curiosity
Audience: Youth, teen, adult
Source: Pale Blue Marbles (blog)
Format: Poems with photographs
The “Change” in Climate Change by Jacob Shores-Argüello
Audience: Teen, adult
Source: Poetry Foundation.org
Format: Poem and audio (read by poet)
Literature-Based Teaching in Science: Poetry Walks
Audience: Youth, teen
Source: Reading Rockets
Format: Lesson ideas to integrate poetry-writing and observations of nature
Fiction
Audience: Teen, adult
Source: Subject to Climate
Format: Lesson plan with embedded link to cli-fi example
Variety of Genres
Audience: Teen
Source: Subject to Climate
Format: Link to MCAN! website of student climate stories
Dance
Dance
Dance and Environmental Education (for dance educators)
Audience: Adult (dance educators)
Source: Council of Ontario Drama and Dance Educators
Format: Unit plan
These Choreographers Are Using Dance to Fight for Climate Action
Audience: Adult
Source: Dance Magazine
Format: Dance magazine article with photos and descriptions
Audience: Teen, adult
Source: Artichoke Dance Company
Format: Website with embedded images and a presentation by the artistic director. YouTube channel for the New York-based Artichoke Dance Company
Fighting Climate Change with Dance | KQED Arts
Audience: Teen, adult
Source: KQED Arts YouTube channel
Format: Video news feature
Save Environment / Climate Change Dance Performance /
Audience: Youth, teen, adult
Source: Avinash Patankar YouTube channel
Format: Video
Film & Film Shorts
Film & Film Shorts
See these video collections for links to short films.
Audience: Youth, teen, adult
Source: BBC Blue Peter YouTube Channel
Format: Animation
Audience: Teen, adult
Source: motherEarth international
Format: Website with collection of short interpretive dance films and podcast episodes by youth
Audience: Youth, teen, adult
Source: Denis Chapon YouTube
Format: Animation of folk tale about water rights
Storm Damage: Rafael's Nightmare
Audience: Teen, adult
Source: VOA News
Format: Short documentary about the effect of climate change on a young person. Downloadable.
Multimedia
Multimedia
Audience: Teen, adult
Source: What Is Missing?
Format: Interactive website with embedded text, image, and sound designed by architect and artist Maya Lin
Audience: Youth, teen, adult
Source: Google Arts & Culture
Format: Searchable visual resources from museums around the world. Searching “climate change” or “global warming” results in museum tours and images worldwide
Audience: Teen, adult
Source: Financial Times
Format: Interactive game with infographics and text
Audience: Youth, teen, adult
Source: National Geographic
Format: Video, sound, image and text
Fine Arts
Fine Arts
Audience: Youth, teen adult, with adaptation
Source: Subject to Climate
Format: Lesson plans with links to artwork and videos
Teaching Materials
Teaching Materials
Arts and Humanities Month Teaching Guide
Audience: Youth, teen, adult
Source: Subject to Climate
Format: Unit and lesson plans, many interdisciplinary
3 Environmental Art Lessons to Get Your Students Thinking Green &
Bring Nature Into Your Art Room With These 5 Project Ideas
Audience: Youth, teen
Source: The Art of Education University
Format: Illustrated lesson ideas
The Perfect Project to Teach Your Students About Art and Activism
Audience: Teen, adult
Source: The Art of Education University
Format: Project-planning idea
Create to Communicate: Art Activities for the EFL Classroom
Audience: Youth, teen, adult
Source: American English
Format: Book of 22 lesson plans for teaching English through art projects. Many projects use recycled materials. Available for download in PDF or MS-Word format.
Audience: Youth
Source: Subject to Climate
Format: Lesson plans, slide presentations, and activity handouts
Audience: Youth
Source: Subject to Climate
Format: Lesson plans, slide presentations, and activity handouts
Audience: Teen
Source: Subject to Climate
Format: Lesson plans, slide presentations, and activity handouts
Audience: Teen
Source: Subject to Climate
Format: Lesson plans, slide presentations, and activity handouts
Plastic World (Art for the Earth #3)
Source: Subject to Climate
Format: Lesson plans, slide presentations with short videos, and activity handouts
What Is Climate Change? Innovative ways to engage students: Handbook for teachers
Audience: Youth, teen, adult
Source: earthday.org
Format: Book of activities to teach climate change, including art-based activities. PDF
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