Explainer: Atmospheric Rivers
What exactly is an atmospheric river and how is it different from a typical rainy day? KneeDeep reporters offer both the basics and the details.
Category: Education
Curricula, lesson plans, instant climate know how.
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Explainer: Atmospheric Rivers
What exactly is an atmospheric river and how is it different from a typical rainy day? KneeDeep reporters offer both the basics and the details.
Green Schools Network
Ideas for how to integrate climate literacy across core curricula.
How To Explain Extreme Weather Without the Fear Factor
Fear-based messaging about extreme weather can backfire. Here are some simple metaphors to explain climate change.
How Two East Bay Teachers Are Fighting the Climate Crisis
Climate literacy and sustainability resolutions are changing how East Bay schools tackle teaching about climate science and solutions.
Lighting a Fire Under K-12 Climate Literacy
In a sixth-grade Petaluma classroom, children are exploring how to make wind energy, fulfilling new state mandates to build climate literacy.
Got Climate Anxiety? What Young Folks Should Know
Climate anxiety in younger generations is on the rise across the globe. Google searches for “climate anxiety” soared by 565% in 2021.
San Rafael Schoolkids Grapple with Rising Canal
In a program to involve youth in climate adaptation planning, fifth graders made models of their homes and town, and designed improvements.
Teaching to Weather the Storms Within
Between gasping sobs, a boy in a viral video explains that he’s upset because of climate change. San Mateo county’s education office is trying to help.