Teaching Climate Change

Teach climate change with hands-on, standards-aligned, interdisciplinary lessons that build climate literacy.

This workshop provides K–12 educators, including specialists in areas such as the arts, health, world languages, and technology, with the tools and strategies to effectively teach climate change in alignment with the New Jersey Student Learning Standards (NJSLS). It emphasizes interdisciplinary approaches, integrating climate literacy across content areas and grade levels. Educators explore hands-on activities, outdoor learning experiences, engineering challenges, and data analysis tasks to deepen student understanding of climate systems. 

Core Needs Addressed

  • Difficulty in integrating climate change concepts across diverse content areas and grade levels.

  • The prevalence of negative messaging about climate change that can overwhelm or discourage students.

  • Limited access to interdisciplinary and developmentally appropriate climate change activities.

Key Learnings

  1. Curriculum Alignment and Lesson Design
    Participants will examine the climate change performance expectations in the NJSLS and learn how to create interdisciplinary lessons that meet these standards. This includes practical strategies for science classrooms and extending into areas like the arts, health, and computer science.

  2. Engaging, Hands-On Climate Education Strategies
    Educators will explore a variety of grade-appropriate, student-centered activities such as modeling the greenhouse effect, conducting biodiversity simulations, analyzing data trends, and engineering climate solutions. These activities are designed to promote critical thinking and real-world problem-solving.

  1. Promoting Hope and Empowerment through Climate Education
    Teachers will gain methods to foster a hopeful, solutions-focused mindset in students by emphasizing success stories, community-based environmental efforts, and the role students can play in addressing climate change. They will also learn to utilize outdoor spaces and mindfulness practices to support environmental stewardship and student well-being.

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How can we integrate climate change education across content areas to produce measurable gains in student understanding, engagement, and environmental literacy?

What instructional practices will ensure students apply interdisciplinary skills—such as data analysis, problem-solving, and scientific reasoning—to real-world climate challenges?

How do we build teacher capacity to design standards-aligned, climate-focused lessons that improve both academic outcomes and civic awareness?

This workshop helped me better understand the challenges families face and gave me practical strategies to strengthen communication and engagement. I now feel more confident in building supportive partnerships with families to improve student success.

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As a result of this work, educators will integrate climate change education across content areas, ensuring students develop a deeper understanding of climate systems through interdisciplinary, standards-aligned instruction. Teachers will leave with practical strategies, hands-on activities, outdoor learning approaches, engineering challenges, and data analysis tasks that support meaningful, real-world learning experiences.

Workshop Description

This workshop provides K–12 educators, including specialists in areas such as the arts, health, world languages, and technology, with the tools and strategies to effectively teach climate change in alignment with the New Jersey Student Learning Standards (NJSLS). It emphasizes interdisciplinary approaches, integrating climate literacy across content areas and grade levels. Educators explore hands-on activities, outdoor learning experiences, engineering challenges, and data analysis tasks to deepen student understanding of climate systems. 

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Educators will confidently teach climate change through interdisciplinary, standards-aligned lessons that engage students in hands-on inquiry, outdoor learning, engineering, and data analysis. This work supports district priorities by ensuring rigorous instruction is implemented consistently across classrooms and content areas.

Frequently Asked Questions

What makes your workshops different from traditional professional development or other providers?

Our approach goes beyond one-size-fits-all professional development. We hold ourselves to rigorous standards of quality and delivery in every client interaction, ensuring that each experience is meaningful, relevant, and impactful. We don’t just deliver workshops—we build long-term partnerships with schools and districts, working alongside educators to improve instructional practices and student outcomes over time.

We actively listen to educators’ unique contexts and experiences, using that insight to collaboratively design tailored solutions rather than pre-packaged sessions. Our team asks thoughtful questions, challenges assumptions, and continuously learns so we can help redefine what’s possible in teaching and learning.

Above all, we communicate authentically, foster positive and productive relationships, and bring a deep passion and commitment to education. The result is professional learning that feels purposeful, personalized, and truly transformative.

Who are your workshops designed for?

Our workshops are designed for educators and school leaders, including teachers, instructional coaches, school administrators, and district teams. Each session is tailored to the specific audience to ensure content is relevant, practical, and immediately applicable.

What does a typical workshop look like?

Our workshops are interactive, engaging, and grounded in real classroom practice. Each experience is intentionally designed using the principles of andragogy, sound instructional design, and the core constructs of effective professional development to ensure relevance, coherence, and impact. Participants engage in discussion, reflection, planning, and application activities — not just passive listening. Educators leave with concrete strategies and next steps they can implement right away.

How long are your workshops?

We offer flexible formats, including half-day, full-day, and multi-session series. We can also design ongoing professional learning experiences to support sustained implementation over time.

What delivery methods are available for your workshops?

We offer flexible delivery options to meet the needs of schools and districts, including in-person sessions, live virtual workshops, and asynchronous learning through our applied learning platform. Regardless of format, all experiences are designed to be interactive, engaging, and collaborative, with structures that promote meaningful participation and application of learning.

What kind of follow-up support is available?

We believe professional learning is most effective when it’s sustained. In addition to workshops, we offer instructional coaching, implementation planning, and follow-up sessions to help teams translate learning into practice and drive meaningful results.

Who facilitates the workshops?

Inspired Instruction’s workshops are facilitated by a nationwide team of expert Instructional Strategists.  Our facilitators bring diverse experience as classroom educators, instructional coaches, principals, directors, and superintendents, spanning all content areas. We thoughtfully match your specific needs with a facilitator whose expertise aligns to ensure the learning experience is relevant, practical, and impactful for your staff.

How much does it cost to bring a workshop to my school or district?

We offer a range of pricing options designed to meet the needs of different schools and districts. Our Client Directors work closely with you to understand your goals, scope, and budget, and will partner with you to design a high-quality professional learning experience that fits within your financial framework.

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