Video Library

This Video Library includes video clips of four teachers implementing the Climate Education Pathways program in their classrooms. These four teachers are located in varied communities: a rural community in Oregon, a suburban community in Michigan, a small urban city in Georgia, and a large urban city in Tennessee. Some of the videos include teacher and student perspectives on why local climate change education matters. Other videos provide examples of how to implement instructional activities in the classroom, such as building a Driving Question Board or using the Superpower Tool.

Variations on Building a Class Consensus Model

Three teachers demonstrate how they approach making a class consensus model.

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Selecting a Localized Anchor

A teacher shares his thought process for selecting a local anchoring phenomena that will be meaningful to students in his community.

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Developing and Revising Models

Students work in small groups to develop models for a variety of plant and soil climate solutions.

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Class Discussion Around Data

Students discuss what they notice and what they wonder about while looking at data about greenhouse gas emission sources and sinks.

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Building and Preparing a Class Consensus Model

A teacher has her students work together to create a checklist to prepare them to revise their models for the local anchoring phenomenon that students have investigated.

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Superpower Tool

A teacher introduces the superpower tool to his students to help them identify ways they can contribute to the class culminating task.

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Navigating Between Lessons

A teacher and her environmental science students navigate from a localized unit into the base unit by discussing what they learned in a previous lesson and making connections with the content in the base unit.

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Developing a Driving Question Board

A teacher supports her students in asking questions about a local climate phenomenon, which are used to develop the Driving Question Board.

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Teacher Perspectives on Selecting a Localized Anchor

Two teachers talk through their decisions for local anchoring phenomenon that would be meaningful to their students and the culminating tasks they designed.

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An Investigative Lesson: Burning Fossil Fuels

A teacher supports her environmental science students as they investigate and construct models about the products of burning fossil fuels.

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Student Culminating Task Experience

Students share stories of their experiences during a localized culminating task, and describe the impact these tasks have when they can connect to their personal interests and make a community impact.

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Maintaining Coherence: Navigation

Two teachers navigate the class into and out of lessons to maintain coherence from the student perspective.

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Climate Solutions Classroom Debate

Students debate possible climate solutions, arguing for their preferred solutions by exploring the affordances and limitations of each strategy.

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Student Perspectives on Science Learning that Matters

Students share why localized learning matters to them and the different ways they develop environmental science agency.

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