AAAS - Global Climate Change Resources AAAS seeks to increase the volume of scientific leadership on the issue of global climate change. Background materials on AAAS efforts related to climate change and links to relevant resources are provided including "Communicating and Learning About Global Climate Change: An Abbreviated Guide for Teaching Climate Change," from Project 2061 at AAAS.

American Association for the Advancement of Sustainability in Higher Education 
Site lists over 11,000 resources in its hubs. Also check out the free Bulletin and the Sustainability Rating and Tracking System. lessons, units, and activities that promote the education of American youth for responsible citizenship in an increasingly interconnected and rapidly changing world.

Access Learning Resources from the US Department of Energy  on a variety of topics related to renewable energies, energy efficiency and more.

The Center for Ecoliteracy  is a Berkeley, California-based nonprofit that supports and advances education for sustainable living. Through its Smart by Nature: Schooling for Sustainability initiative, the Center offers expertise, inspiration, and support to the growing green schools movement in K-12 education. It provides books, teaching guides, and other publications; professional development seminars; and consulting, including academic program audits, in-depth curriculum development, and coaching to improve teaching and learning for sustainability.

The Center for Environmental Education. Centre for Environment Education (CEE) was established in 1984 as a Centre of Excellence of the Ministry of Environment and Forests, Government of India. CEE’s mandate is to promote environmental awareness nationwide, but resources are available to all globally.

The Centre for Education and Research in Environmental Strategies (CERES) is an award winning, not-for-profit, environment and education centre and urban farm located by the Merri Creek in East Brunswick, Melbourne. Built on a decommissioned municipal tip that was once a landfill and wasteland, today CERES is a thriving, vibrant community.

CERES is recognised as an international leader in community and environmental practice. Visit the Sustainability Hub of CERES where you can search by topic for Sustainable Schools activities throughout Australia!

Toward a Sustainable Agriculture is a free high-school curriculum that addresses the social, environmental and economic impacts of agriculture. The curriculum provides a critical analysis of agricultural and food systems, and helps students understand new concepts through hands-on examples. The curruculum includes six modules, designed to be incorporated into existing classes. This curriculum grew out of sustainable agriculture curriculum materials developed in 1989 and 1990 with the Wisconsin Rural Development Center and the Department of Public Instruction.

Children's Environmental Literacy Foundation. Founded in 2003, CELF is a non-profit organization whose mission is to make sustainability education an integral part of K-12 education, in school curricula and culture, through comprehensive programming for students, educators and the community.

Climate Generation hosts a Teach Climate Network for educators, provides a free resource library, and hosts professional development workshops.

CLEAN

The Climate Literacy and Energy Awareness Network (CLEAN). On this site, you can explore a collection of educational resources and learn how to build your students' understanding of the core ideas in climate and energy science.

The Cloud Institute for Sustainability Education
Services for Educators includes professional development workshops, curriculum materials for purchase, and curriculum design and consultation services, all offered by highly experienced practitioners of ESD.

Coverdell World Wise Schools 
The Peace Corps primary resource site for teachers includes lesson plans and activities categorized by topic, by grade, and by geographic region. Site also offers connections to Peace Corps volunteers currently in the field for real-time communication opportunities.

Creative Change Educational Solutions offers curriculum and professional development on multiple sustainability topics, including food systems, land use, brownfields redevelopment, green design, energy, environmental justice, and ecological economics. An on-line curriculum library provides a searchable database of Creative Change materials as well as completely developed units.  

Dream of a Nation - book and website that connects challenges and solutiuons.Book and guides for educators are available free online.

Ecological Footprint Quiz 
An online quiz helps individuals better understand their consumption of resources in a global context.

Energy Works Michigan has released FREE downloadable lesson plans on energy efficiency, solar energy, and wind energy. These hands-on, inquiry-based lessons are targeted for upper elementary, middle school, and high school levels. The lessons challenge students to conduct classroom energy audits, interpret wind maps to assess potential wind turbine sites, power a radio using solar panels, and more!

EE Link
Links to lesson plans and activities through the North American Association of Environmental Educators (NAAEE). Lessons available for grades PreK-12 on a wide variety of subjects ranging from energy to biodiversity.

eGFI - Dream Up The Future

This site includes tools to boost students' science and math skills, projects and information for teachers.

Energy Education and Workforce Development

This site includes lesson plans, labs, projects and other activities on energy-related activities to help you enhance your required curriculum by teaching your students the importance of gree energy.

Environmental Kids Club 
Sponsored by the United States Environmental Protection Agency, this site includes links for teachers and students to topical information and resources as well as lesson plans covering topics such as water quality, conservation, ecosystems, and human health.

Environmental Literacy Council 
Environmental science labs and activities are designed primarily for AP Environmental Science teachers interested in using the inquiry method of teaching. Materials are available in pdf or html format.

Florida Solar Energy Center (FSEC) dedicates substantial effort to the development of educational resources for teachers. With a strong belief that clean and efficient energy resources are key to the future generations' ability to achieve a safe and sustainable environment, FSEC offers a range of teacher resources for the K-12 classroom.

Flow Learning - from the folks at Share Nature Flow Learning™ gives teachers and youth leaders a simple, structured way to guide students into their own, direct experiences of nature. Through playful games that awaken the students’ curiosity and enthusiasm.

 Eco-Schools is an internationally acclaimed program that provides a framework to help educators integrate sustainable principles throughout their schools and curriculum.

The GLOBE Program (Global Learning and Observations to Benefit the Environment) is a worldwide hands-on, primary and secondary school-based education and science program. Students and teachers involved in the program practice real science by taking measurements, analyzing data, and collaborating with scientists in the field. Findings are shared with other program schools around the world.

Go Green Initiative 
A grassroots environmental program that unites parents, teachers and students to create a culture of conservation on school campuses. The program involves students at every level and takes a comprehensive approach to help schools evaluate every aspect of their environmental impact. It provides schools simple checklists and tools to examine everything from recycling to unsafe pesticides used on playgrounds.

Graduation Pledge Alliance 
Site offers guidelines for development and examples of voluntary pledges that remind students of the ethical implications of the knowledge and training they receive.

Green Education Foundation Educational Clearinghouse – This site offers free sustainability lessons to use in your class and you can upload your own lessons to share. Also see their professional development online courses at http://www.gefinstitute.org

Growing Up Global: Raising Children to be At Home in the World helps parents to raise children with a global perspective. Not all families can travel overseas to expose their children to world cultures, but they can start engaging with the world right in their own home communities. This hands-on book helps to begin that process.

Heifer International
Curriculum materials for K-12 classrooms developed by the award winning non-profit with the tag line, "Ending Hunger, Caring for the Earth."

National Energy Foundation
Lessons for K-12 teachers highlight a better understanding of energy, natural resources, and the environment.

National Environmental Education Foundation 

Nature Rocks                                                                                                                               This site will help you find all sorts of nature activities, plus tools to help guide and plan your adventures. You'll also find useful tips and information to help you get into nature without getting over your head.

The NEED (National Energy Education Development) Project (www.need.org) has a large library of energy curriculum on a wide range of energy topics and is differentiated between primary, elementary, intermediate and secondary levels. Specific curriculum you will find useful can be found at the following site which sorts the curriculum according to subject. (https://www.need.org/educators/curriculum-resources/).

NAAEE's mission is to use the power of education to advance environmental literacy and civic engagement to create a more equitable and sustainable future. They work with educators, policymakers, and partners throughout the world. They host an annual conference, and their website boasts a plethora of resources, opportunities, and jobs in the EE field.

Our World in Data publishes research and data to make progress against the world’s largest problems. Their website includes a tracker that measures progress toward the Sustainable Development Goals.

Oxfam Education offers a huge range of ideas, resources and support for developing the global dimension in the classroom and the whole school. All of the resources here support Education for Global Citizenship - education that helps pupils understand their world and make a positive difference in it.                    

Project Food, Land & People promotes approaches to learning to help people better understand the interrelationships among agriculture, the environment and people of the world. Curriculum materials are available for purchase.

Pulse of the Planet offers two-minute downloadable sound portraits of planet Earth. Sound bites range from human celebration to a chorus of bullfrogs to a symphony created by a storm.

Roots & Shoots 
Founded by Dr. Jane Goodall, this global program emphasizes the principle that knowledge leads to compassion, which inspires action. All Roots & Shoots groups show care and concern in three areas: the human community, animals, and the environment.

Hosted by National Public Radio, this site offers teachers lessons and activities that connect to NPR's weekly radio show, Science Friday. Topics are geared toward the urban landscape and activities are designed for hands-on, experiential learning.

Sustainability Education and Economic Development online resource center - resources for educators and sustainability advocates developed by the American Association of Community Colleges (https://theseedcenter.org/), including curricular materials, competencies, innovative partnerships to build green job demand and sustainable communities and more...

Shelburne Farms  offers a variety of professional development opportunities for both formal and non-formal educators. Each program is designed to give educators the confidence, motivation and skills they need to integrate science, agricultural, sustainability and natural resource topics into their curricula.

The Story of Stuff is a 20-minute, fast-paced, fact-filled look at the underside of our production and consumption patterns. The Story of Stuff exposes the connections between a huge number of environmental and social issues, and calls us together to create a more sustainable and just world. It'll teach you something, it'll make you laugh, and it just may change the way you look at all the stuff in your life forever.

Subject to Climate hosts a searchable database of free climate change resources including teacher-developed lesson plans, news for students, and training opportunities for educators of all grade levels and subject areas.

This United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) publication explores how to best approach generative AI technology. These tools are powerful and rapidly evolving, while also having minimal regulation. This guidance analyzes the risk that these tools cause while also providing recommendations to educational institutions and governments on how to address this growing technology.

The U.S. Energy Information Administration has an Energy Kids site where you can find a wide range of activities for students and information about how teachers can put this site to use. Aimed at K-12 audiences but useful for a much wider range.

U.S. Green Building Council's Educator Resource Center (USGBC) is committed to supporting educators in using the built environment as the context for learning. USGBC promotes the reorientation of K-12 and higher education programs toward sustainability and green building as a tool for preparing students to enter the green marketplace.

Washington State (Office of Superintendent of Public Instruction) Education for Environment and Sustainability - the focus of the Education for Environment and Sustainability program is to support academic success and life-long learning, and to develop a responsible citizenry capable of applying knowledge of ecological, economic, and socio-cultural systems to meet current and future needs. Program priorities include: Standards and Curriculum Integration, Professional Development, Research and Policy Development, Community Engagement and Collaboration. This website also has links to stories in the field or "case studies".

Watt’s Up? The Lowdown on Energy, from the American Geosciences Institute, is a portfolio of instructional modules on energy. Each module is approximately 30 pages and consists of classroom activities, teacher notes, background information, assessments, career information and a glossary.

What is Education for Sustainability?  A white paper on EDUCATING FOR SUSTAINABILITY By K-12 and Teacher Education Sector of the U.S. Partnership  

YPCCC conducts scientific studies on public opinion and behavior; informs the decision-making of governments, media, companies, and advocates; educates the public about climate change; and helps build public and political will for climate action. They have resources and interactive maps about climate opinions across North America, as well as lesson plans for grade 6-12 educators.

Young Voice for the Planet is a film series featuring young people who are making a difference! They are shrinking the carbon footprint of their homes, schools and communities.

The Zinn Education Project promotes and supports the teaching of people’s history in classrooms across the United States, with a strong focus on social justice. They have a Teach Climate Justice campaign as well as a number of lessons with environmental themes.