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Developmentally Appropriate

Special care must be given to ensure that learning goals center student agency, actionable solutions, and hope to address ecoanxiety.

Grounded in Climate Science

Learning materials and experiences must be grounded in reputable, peer-reviewed climate science research.

Interdisciplinary

Deep learning across content areas helps students explore the complexity of climate change as a social, economic, and scientific challenge.

Justice-Focused

Students explore disparities in climate impacts to understand and address these harms in their communities and to prepare them to engage in civil society as decision makers that will improve the quality of life for all community members.

Oriented Towards a Thriving Future

Students imagine a world in which they can thrive. From this hopeful stance, they can begin to examine the challenges that stand between them and their thriving world, and plan to act in ways that bring them closer to it.

Place-Based

Students explore their physical environment, historical and social context, and the people and other living things in their community to gain a better understanding of themselves and their place in the world.

Standards-Based

Developing learning opportunities with the standards as the foundation ensures that student learning activities move them toward mastery of their grade-specific performance expectations.

Student-Centered

Students explore their unanswered questions, participate in authentic research, and engage in actions to respond through mitigation, adaptation, or novel solutions.