What if project-based learning could turn climate anxiety into action—and help every student find their voice?
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May 6, 2025
If you need standards-aligned, ready-to-use resources to teach climate change, these free, on-demand webinars—featuring sea turtles, short films and real-world simulations—are packed with ready-to-use lessons, inspiration and free professional development credit.
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What if your next favorite lesson was just one professional development webinar away?
If you’re an educator trying to teach climate change in a way that feels real, hopeful and doable, you’re not alone. Today’s students aren’t just learning about climate change in theory. They’re living it. From wildfire smoke days to flooded playgrounds, the climate crisis is no longer “someday”—it’s now.
That’s a lot to carry into the classroom.
And let’s be real: Teaching about climate change can feel overwhelming. What if you don’t have a science background? What if parents push back? What if your students are already anxious?
That’s exactly why this year’s 2025 Share My Lesson Virtual Conference leaned into climate education with purpose. These free, for-credit webinars are packed with fresh, cross-curricular ideas that meet students where they are—and give teachers the tools to explore big, sometimes scary, topics in empowering ways.
Whether you're weaving climate themes into English language arts, strengthening STEM instruction, or helping students raise their voices through advocacy, these sessions offer creative, practical tools for educators who want to teach climate change with confidence and compassion.
They’re flexible. They’re grade-level appropriate. And they’re solution-focused—because, yes, we’re talking about real problems, but we’re also spotlighting the people and projects working to respond to them.
Below are highlights from three standout sessions to spark ideas. When you have the time, you can register and unlock the full experience (and the PD credit!).
Hosted by SubjectToClimate and CFR Education, this session walks you through an easy-to-use scaffolded approach to teaching climate change across all grade levels—from kindergarten through high school. SubjectToClimate highlights its Earth Month Classroom Calendar: It’s a daily guide packed with standards-aligned, cross-curricular activities that meaningfully integrate into math, science, ELA, and civics lessons without requiring major curriculum overhauls.
Hope is not just an optimistic attitude—it’s a verb. It’s action.
You don’t need to be a climate expert—just start with one resource. These tools will meet you (and your students) where you are.
In this session, Journeys in Film shows how short films, like The Crisis Scientists, can spark powerful conversations, build climate literacy, and help students see their role in climate action and advocacy. Plus, these films are easy to plug into STEM, ELA, or even media literacy lessons without requiring a full unit overhaul. Free educator toolkits, worksheets and discussion guides make implementation seamless.
Even when we’re not the experts, films let us bring expert voices into the classroom—and let students lead the conversation.
Short films humanize science, connect with emotions and create space for critical thinking across subjects.
Imagine using a sea turtle adoption project to teach struggling readers reading comprehension, collaboration and leadership. Educator Suzanne Lipshaw did just that—with a yearlong, student-led unit focused on oceanography, nonfiction literacy and real-world advocacy.
From live virtual field trips to a water bottle fundraiser and a schoolwide digital assembly, this project helped students apply their learning in meaningful ways, while building community and confidence in a resource room setting.
Our big question was: What can we do, all the way from Michigan, to help protect sea turtles? The students figured it out—and took action.
Climate education can empower every learner, especially when it connects academic goals with personal purpose.
A lot of educators want to teach climate change but worry about pushback, time, or just not feeling like an expert. These webinars take that pressure off by offering nonpartisan, standards-aligned resources that make climate literacy feel doable—no matter what grade you teach or where you're starting from.
All three of these webinars—plus many more from the 2025 Share My Lesson Virtual Conference—are now available to watch on demand. They're free and come with a certificate of completion for PD credit.
If you’re ready to bring something engaging and inspiring to your classroom, these sessions are here to support you. You’ll walk away with ideas that help students think more critically, more creatively and more compassionately about the world they’re growing up in.
Explore more resources for educators to find a wide-range of relevant preK-12 lessons on climate change or supporting young people as they continue to lead the conversation around the climate change crisis.
