Resources for Teaching About Climate Change With The New York Times

Dozens of resources to help students understand why our planet is warming and what we can do to stop it. How much do your students know about climate change what causes it, what its consequences are and what we can do to stop it? A from the United Nations found that countries around the world are failing to live up to their commitments to fight climate change, pointing Earth toward a future marked by more intense flooding, wildfires, drought, heat waves and species extinction. Young people in particular are feeling the effects both physical and emotional of a warming planet. In response to a about extreme weather that has been intensified by climate change, teenagers told us about experiencing in Washington, in North Carolina and even in Vermont. Theyre also feeling the anxiety of facing a future that could be even worse: How long do I have before the Earth becomes uninhabitable? I ask myself this every day, one student . Over the years, weve created dozens of resources to help young people learn about climate change with New York Times articles, interactive quizzes, graphs, films and more. To mark this moment, were collecting 60 of them, along with selected recent Times reporting and Opinion pieces on the topic, all in one place. To get you started, weve highlighted several of those resources and offered ideas for how you can use them in your classroom. Whether its a short video about a teenage climate activist, a math problem about electric vehicles, or a writing prompt about their diets carbon footprint, we hope these activities can get your students thinking and talking about climate change and inspire them to make a difference. How are you teaching about the climate crisis, its consequences and its solutions? Let us know in the comments. We are having trouble retrieving the article content. Please enable JavaScript in your browser settings. Thank you for your patience while we verify access. If you are in Reader mode please exit and your Times account, or for all of The Times. Thank you for your patience while we verify access. Already a subscriber? . Want all of The Times? .