CLIMATE ACTION
Building a resilient Monterey County begins with informed people, healthy ecosystems, and connected communities. These resources explore not only the challenges of climate change, but the many opportunities to regenerate our eco-systems, strengthen our neighborhoods, and create a healthier future for everyone. Here are some resources for exploring solutions.
Regeneration
Regeneration
Environmental regeneration is about helping people and nature thrive together. It goes beyond reducing environmental harm by restoring healthy soils, forests, waterways, wildlife habitat, and communities. By working with nature rather than against it, we can create self-renewing living systems that support healthy communities and a more resilient future for generations to come. Regeneration is optimistic!
NEA Climate Change
This is an educator resource website with links about climate change mostly for grades 4-12th. The introduction includes a guide on how to teach this sensitive topic to students with practical home and classroom activities. It has extensive links to websites with activities mostly for grade 4 through middle and high school on climate change. It also provides online textbooks, teacher’s guides, websites with brief summaries and how some are aligned to the science and curriculum standards.
Grade Level: 4th – 12th
Science Standards Relating to Climate Change: NEA links will guide educators to specific grade levels which cover Grade 4 (ESS3ANatural Resourses),Grade 6 (ESS3D:Global Climate Change): Grade 8 (ESS3.C: Human Impacts on Earth Systems)Grades 9-12
(ESS2.D: Weather and Climate
and Grades 9-12 ).
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
A collection of resources searchable by topic, grade level, educational resource type, and climate literacy principles. Awesome resource of CLEAN (Climate Literacy and Energy Awareness Network) digital teaching resources that are reviewed and aligned with the Climate Literacy Framework and Energy Literacy Framework.
Grade Level: 3rd – 12th
Monterey Bay Aquarium
Access to Aquarium info, classroom labs, and virtual resources. Educational Resource for all things related to the Ocean and Climate Change – Physical exhibits for Field Trips/Educational Labs and Virtual resources
Grade Level: K – 12th
The Wise Owl Factory
Online Resource with a multitude of links for pre-school/elementary exploration of Climate Change This link offers some PowerPoint Presentations and PDF curriculum on Climate Change that teachers can use in their classrooms. If teachers search for climate resources they will find the Climate Reality Leadership presentations that Carolyn Wilhem, an educator, has created and resourced from her Climate Reality Leadership trainings.
Grade Level: K – 6th
Kiss the Ground
Movie on Regenerative Agriculture. The resource is a movie explaining the processes of Regenerative Agriculture and how farming practices relate to Climate Change.
Grade Level: 6th – 12th
