Healthy Habitats: Climate Change Action for K-2

Climate Generation

In this resource, students will explore their local schoolyard habitat, reflect on how climate change may be impacting their habitat, and work together to plan and implement an action that helps reduce local climate impacts and cultivate climate resiliency at their school. K-2 climate change education can provide foundational concepts that will support students' climate literacy in future years.

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These are excellent resources for introducing K-2 students to nature journaling, observation skills, and habitats. Focussing on place-based education, students utilize materials that can be readily found around their school. Educators should be aware that you will need to complete all three lessons in order to cover how habitats and climate change are connected in a way that is cohesive and supportive of students' mental health. There are extension activities for each lesson including a literacy and math connection activity. Ultimately, the lesson leads to suggestions on how to make positive changes through collective action at their school.
These are lessons that focus on observations and nature journaling while introducing topics of habitats, living vs. non-living things, and animals. There are three lessons: "What is a Habitat", "What a Healthy Habitat Looks Like", and "How Can We Care for and Protect Our Habitat", which all combine into a detailed booklet, taking 3-4 days to introduce. Passed initial science review - expert science review pending.
There are excellent instructions and detailed lesson plans that list extra activities to use, allows the classroom to focus on their specific habitats around the classroom, and give background/supplemental materials. Educators will need to create a login to access the free materials. All Climate Generation resources are free with account login.