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En-ROADS Guided Assignment

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The En-ROADS guided assignment challenges participants to use the free online En-ROADS simulator (https://en-roads.climateinteractive.org/) to create a scenario that successfully addresses climate change while considering implications across the economy, environment, and society. The En-ROADS assignment is used in classrooms, ranging from middle school to graduate level students, and comes in short and long forms. It can also be adapted as an exercise for non-academic settings. Often, the assignment is given following an En-ROADS workshop or Climate Action Simulation role-playing simulation game (https://www.climateinteractive.org/en-roads/).

Material Type: Activity/Lab, Homework/Assignment, Unit of Study

Author: Climate Interactive

Understand Energy Learning Hub

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Stanford University’s Understand Energy Learning Hub provides free access to Stanford course content on energy resources from fossil fuels like oil and coal to renewable resources like the wind, the sun, and efficiency; energy currencies like electricity and hydrogen; and energy services such as transportation and buildings. Explore the Hub and build your energy literacy to address climate change and sustainability issues, engage on equity and human development challenges, participate in energy industry markets and technology innovations, and make informed energy decisions.

Material Type: Full Course

Author: Stanford University Understand Energy

Energy for Buildings

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Residential and commercial buildings are the largest contributors to global greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. GHG emissions in buildings come mainly from the consumption of energy for heating, cooling, lighting, and operating various appliances, as well as from construction, materials, and maintenance. Decarbonizing buildings is crucial in the efforts to mitigate climate change and achieve sustainable development. Building decarbonization involves energy efficiency, electrification, increased use of renewable energy sources, adoption of sustainable building practices, and supportive policies and regulations.

Material Type: Module

Educator resources for "All We Can Save"

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The book "All We Can Save" is an anthology of writings by women at the forefront of the climate movement who are harnessing truth, courage, and solutions to lead humanity forward. This Creative Commons licensed collection of educator resources includes a discussion question bank, various assignments, summaries of each essay in the book, and other resources.

Material Type: Activity/Lab, Homework/Assignment, Teaching/Learning Strategy

Author: The All We Can Save Project

Climate Justice Instructional Toolkit

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The primary goal of these resources and programming, created as part of a larger initiative to expand climate justice education at MIT, is to provide support to faculty members and instructors across disciplines in integrating climate justice content and related instructional approaches into their courses. The Toolkit houses a wide range of climate-justice-adaptable teaching modules, a starter guide for teaching climate justice, resources for students, and climate justice data sets that can serve as supportive tools to enhance teaching content and approaches.

Material Type: Teaching/Learning Strategy

Authors: Christopher Rabe, John Fernandez, Sarah Myers

Bending the Curve: Climate Change Solutions

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Climate change is an urgent problem. Because it is causing new weather extremes and fatal catastrophes, climate change is better termed climate disruption. Bending the curve to flatten the upward trajectory of pollution emissions responsible for climate disruption is essential in order to protect billions of people from this global threat. Education is a key part of the solution.

Material Type: Textbook

Authors: Max Auffhammer, Roger Aines, Veerabhadran Ramanathan