Partners

Action for the Climate Emergency (ACE)'s mission is to educate, inspire and support young people to lead the fight for their future. To achieve their mission, ACE ensures young people have everything they need to understand the science of climate emergency and advocate for solutions. 

Ages of Globalization is a free, multidisciplinary online course designed to empower a global community of learners — students ages 14+, educators, and lifelong learners alike — to address today’s sustainable development challenges. The course also includes UN at Your Doorstep, a live online series that gives young people the unique opportunity to engage directly with global leaders in monthly dialogues on the most pressing issues of our time, from peace and security, climate change, poverty, inequalities, environmental sustainability, and artificial intelligence, with a particular emphasis on how young people can take action.

The All We Can Save Project is on a mission to embed climate truth, courage, and just solutions in education — and to make it exceedingly easy to use the All We Can Save anthology within classrooms and beyond. 

The American Museum of Natural History is one of the world’s preeminent scientific and cultural institutions. Since its founding in 1869, the Museum has advanced its global mission to discover, interpret, and disseminate information about human cultures, the natural world, and the universe through a wide-ranging program of scientific research, education, and exhibition.

The mission of the American Red Cross is to prevent and alleviate human suffering in the face of emergencies by mobilizing the power of volunteers and the generosity of donors. As the climate crisis worsens, the Red Cross is witnessing firsthand how disasters are becoming more frequent and intense. Now more than ever, families need to be ready for extreme weather. The Red Cross works closely with schools and youth-serving organizations to provide emergency preparedness education to young people to build resilience in communities across the country and abroad.

Art Works for Change is a nonprofit organization that creates contemporary art exhibitions and storytelling projects to address critical social and environmental issues.

The ASU College of Global Futures is committed to creating and providing curricular resources that span a diverse range of topics--including food systems, sustainability, quality of life and well-being, decision-making for sustainability, and much more. The lessons are applicable for grades 6-9 with variations presented that will enable teachers to tailor the activities for more ages outside of that range.

BioInteractive brings the power of real science stories into tens of thousands of high school and undergraduate life science classrooms.

Bow Seat Ocean Awareness Programs is a global nonprofit working at the intersection of environmental science and the arts. Bow Seat hosts the annual Ocean Awareness Contest, inviting students worldwide to create art, writing, film, and other creative media to learn about and speak up against the climate crisis. Since 2011, Bow Seat has engaged with nearly 30,000 students in all 50 U.S. states and 138 countries.

C3 Teachers aims to empower teachers as they wrestle with the big ideas and instructional implications of the C3 Framework. Teachers play a critical role in helping students learn academic content using the C3 Inquiry Arc, which outlines the social studies habits of mind, disciplinary tools, and conceptual content that students need to become ready for college and career, and most importantly, civic life.  As social studies students map their own disciplinary inquiries, C3 Teachers embark on a pedagogical investigation examining and experimenting with their own practice as they support students’ questions, learn, apply, analyze, collaborate, express, and act in authentic social studies experiences. C3teachers.org is a place to learn more about that process and to share your experiences with other social studies teachers.

The Captain Polo Climate Academy was founded in June 2022 by Alan J. Hesse, a conservation biologist, author-illustrator and climate educator. The Academy leverages the cartoon polar bear character "Captain Polo," hero of Alan’s ongoing series of educational children’s books about climate change. Through the application of creative, actionable content and practical projects the Captain Polo Climate Academy aims to support teachers and empower children as agents of positive change for climate action and sustainability, both as future decision-makers and as current key influencers of their parents and other adults.

The Center for Ecoliteracy advances the teaching and modeling of sustainable practices in K–12 schools. The organization builds partnerships and the capacity of K–12 schools to support healthy, sustainable school communities and food systems change in schools. The Center for Ecoliteracy leads systems change initiatives, publishes original books and resources, facilitates conferences and professional development, and provides strategic consulting. The organization works at multiple levels of scale, with local, regional, state, and national programs.

CFR Education provides accurate, accessible, authoritative resources that build the knowledge, skills, and perspective high school and higher education students need to understand and engage with today’s most pressing global issues.

The Children's Environmental Literacy Foundation (CELF) is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization founded in 2003 with the mission to make Education for Sustainability (EfS) an integral part of every child's K-12 learning experience. CELF engages educators, students and community leaders through award-winning programs that are designed to succeed in a wide range of education settings, including multi-day Summer Institutes, school professional development workshops, custom curriculum and instruction consulting, green career speaker series, and outdoor learning experiences. CELF's programs aim to help cultivate a society of global citizens with deep understanding of the dynamic interdependencies among human systems nested within natural systems, and the critical role education plays in cultivating healthy, equitable communities in a changing climate.   

Citizens' Climate Education (CCE) is a nonpartisan grassroots advocacy organization that empowers individuals to educate key stakeholders, policymakers, and the general public about effective solutions to climate change. By training and mobilizing a powerful coalition of climate advocates, CCE builds political will for long-lasting climate solutions.

The CLEAN Network is a professionally diverse community of over 630 members committed to improving climate and energy literacy locally, regionally, nationally, and globally in order to enable responsible decisions and actions. The CLEAN Network has been a dynamic group since 2008 and is now led by the CLEAN Leadership Board established in 2016. 

Climate Central is an independent group of scientists and communicators who research and report the facts about our changing climate and how it affects people’s lives.

While most people have heard of global warming, few understand environmental feedback loops, which are amplifying and accelerating the process. In Climate Emergency: Feedback Loops, a series of five short films ranging from 8-14 minutes, 12 climate scientists explain how warming caused by human activity is setting in motion Earth’s own natural mechanisms, releasing additional greenhouse gases into the atmosphere and further heating up the planet. Out of dozens of environmental feedback loops, Climate Emergency: Feedback Loops focuses on four areas, explaining how warming in forests, permafrost, the atmosphere, and the poles work together to accelerate warming cycles.

Climate Generation is a nationally connected nonprofit dedicated to climate literacy, climate change education, youth leadership, and community engagement for innovative climate change solutions. Climate Generation empowers individuals and their communities to engage in solutions to climate change. Their vision is a world of resilient communities with equitable solutions to climate change.

Climate Interactive is a non-profit think tank partnered with the MIT Sloan Sustainability Initiative that creates tools and resources to help people explore connections, play out scenarios, and see what works to address climate change, inequity, and related issues like energy, health, and food. Climate Interactive’s unique tools distill complex science and data into forms accessible to a wide range of audiences through interactive events, engaging curriculum, computer modeling, systems thinking, and organizational learning.

Climate Mental Health Network urgently addresses the mental health impacts of the climate crisis through education, community engagement and by harnessing the power of media and technology.

Climate Outreach helps people understand the complex issue of climate change in ways that resonate with their sense of identity, values, and worldview. They aim to create informed consent and support from people across society and around the world, in order to create a social mandate for climate action.

Climate Reality Project seeks to catalyze a global solution to the climate crisis by making urgent action a necessity across every sector of society. They recruit, train, and mobilize people to become powerful activists, providing the skills, campaigns, and resources to push for aggressive climate action and high-level policies that accelerate a just transition to clean energy.

ClimateScience inspires young talents to seek careers in fields where they contribute to climate solutions. By providing beautifully illustrated, understandable, science-based educational content for free for everyone, they are building the fundamentals for Climate Education.

The Cloud Institute prepares school systems and their communities to educate for a sustainable future through meaningful content and learner-centered instruction. We are committed to the roles that teaching, learning, and thinking play in contributing to the shift toward a sustainable future. Our work with schools revolves around professional learning, curriculum, instruction, and assessment aspects of Education for Sustainability (EfS). We also provide the strategic planning and leadership development support required for lasting school change.

The mission of the IRI is to enhance society’s capability to understand, anticipate and manage the impacts of climate in order to improve human welfare and the environment, especially in developing countries. The IRI conducts this mission through strategic and applied research, education, capacity building, and by providing forecasts and information products with an emphasis on practical and verifiable utility and partnership.

Day of Climate is a new initiative designed to equip K-12 learners and their educators with concise, hands-on educational materials and tools to better understand climate change, its impacts, and potential solutions. This effort unites the broader MIT community to engage learners and educators in concrete actions addressing climate and sustainability challenges.

Earth Cubs is award-winning content about the environment, sustainability and climate change. Inspired by the Global Goals, Earth Cubs covers important global topics. Entertaining and educating kids with videos, bookazines, podcasts, socials and learning resources.

Earth Force engages young people as active citizens who improve the environment and their communities now and in the future. They believe that a civic experience is an essential element of education about the environment. They work to ensure that young people have this experience by helping teachers develop young people with the knowledge, skills, and motivation to solve tough environmental problems.

Earth Warriors is an early childhood education curriculum that teaches young children about sustainability and climate change. Their mission is to build sustainable habits in children in their early years through climate education. Earth Warriors' positive and solutions-focused approach aims to equip children with the knowledge and skills needed to deal with the climate crisis. 

EarthEcho International envisions a world where every individual has the opportunity and tools to create a healthy and thriving environment. To that end, their mission is to build a global youth movement to protect and restore our ocean planet. Their Academy is a new virtual learning space developed to provide online courses for teacher professional learning with access to fully remote, asynchronous environmental education modules for students.

ecoAmerica moves society toward climate solutions by inspiring and empowering trusted national institutions and their millions of stakeholders in local communities across America to visibly act and advocate. Our mission is built upon our commitment to Justice, Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion.

EcoRise mobilizes a new generation of leaders to design healthy, just, and thriving communities for all. By teaching sustainability, design, and social entrepreneurship, their programs inspire youth to tackle real-world challenges in their schools and communities. EcoRise provides a leading-edge curriculum to over 5,000 K-12 educators around the world. In addition, they offer robust teacher professional development, a Student Innovation Fund to bring green ideas to life, and youth-facing programs such as youth climate councils and paid summer internships to foster the next generation of green professionals and leaders.

Ecosia is the search engine that plants trees with its ads revenue. They have a YouTube Channel that has educational content as well to further their mission: to regenerate degraded landscapes, support rural communities and establish climate justice, one tree at a time.

Elemental Impact is a non-profit investing platform that invests in climate companies and projects with deep local impact. Elemental has a 15-year history of investing in real world solutions that make neighborhoods and homes cleaner, healthier, safer, and more affordable. The investing platform scales climate technologies through a three-tiered approach: deploying catalytic capital, providing project expertise, and prioritizing community partnership. Elemental’s portfolio is active nationwide as well as in more than 100 countries and has raised over $10B in follow-on funding.

We are a behavior change organization with a mission to reduce emissions by informing people of the climate impact of aviation and inspiring them to travel by other means.

FoodCorps partners with schools and communities to nourish kids’ health, education, and sense of belonging. Our Americorps members serve alongside educators and school nutrition leaders to provide kids with nourishing meals, food education, and culturally affirming experiences with food that celebrate and nurture the whole child. Building on our service program, FoodCorps develops leaders, grows networks, and advocates for policy change in service of every kid’s health and wellbeing.

Gaia Scholastic's mission is to cultivate a generation of environmentally-literate global citizens by integrating nature and environmental concepts into the learning experiences of students of all ages and abilities. Gaia Scholastic supports educational organizations in weaving standards-driven, interdisciplinary Environmental Education into their work through curated curriculum, Professional Development, and with community events in which students take civic action.

At Gen-Z Media, we create and produce some of the most innovative audio programming around. We’re all about families and friends listening together and connecting over great stories. Gen-Z podcasts are downloaded millions of times every month by fans all over the world. One of our podcasts, The Big Melt, is a climate change podcast brought to you in collaboration with Earth Rangers. 

Global Forest Watch (GFW) is an online platform that provides data and tools for monitoring forests. By harnessing cutting-edge technology, GFW allows anyone to access near real-time information about where and how forests are changing around the world. GFW is used every day to monitor and manage forests, stop illegal deforestation and fires, call out unsustainable activities, defend land and resources, sustainably source commodities, and conduct research at the forefront of conservation.

For over 25 years, Global Nomads Group has leveraged technology to host digital safe spaces for young people around the world to share their stories, challenge assumptions, engage with and learn from each other, and, by doing so, foster a more just world.

The Global Oneness Project is a free multimedia platform offering multicultural stories and accompanying lesson plans as pedagogical tools to inspire growing minds. Their award-winning collection of films, photo essays, and articles explores cultural, social, and environmental issues from around the world with a humanistic lens. Aligned to National and Common Core Standards, their curriculum content contains an interdisciplinary approach to learning and facilitates the development of critical thinking, inquiry, and empathy.

The Goldman Environmental Prize honors the achievements and leadership of grassroots environmental activists from around the world, inspiring all of us to take action to protect our planet. Prize winners are announced each April, coinciding with Earth Day. They are celebrated with a live ceremony in San Francisco.

Our mission is to promote K-12 environmental literacy as a project-based, multi-disciplinary 21st century learning initiative that engages students, parents, teachers, educators, schools, community-based partners and school districts committed to a sustainable and equitable future.

Green Ninja grew out of academic research at San Jose State University that demonstrated how well-designed educational experiences can promote pro-environmental attitudes and behavior in youth. This research is the foundation for the Green Ninja middle school science curriculum that has been adopted by the California Department of Education as an approved NGSS science provider. Today, Green Ninja is the only commercial science publisher in the U.S. that uses local climate and environmental problems as a lens for teaching science. Green Ninja is a California Benefit Corporation with the goal of creating a cleaner and healthier planet for everyone.

The GSA harnesses the collective knowledge and expertise of its school-based members (students, faculty, staff, principals and others) to develop programs that enable school communities to 'lead the transition to an equitable, sustainable and climate-resilient future'.

Green Schools National Network (GSNN) leads a growing network of school districts to embed health, equity, and sustainability from the classroom to the board room. GSNN helps them create, approve, manage, and monitor five year Sustainability Plans that transform the facilities & operations, leadership, curriculum & instruction, and culture & climate of every school. These plans drive impacts such as the reduction of carbon, energy, water, and waste in schools; climate education in every K-12 classroom; and local sustainability initiatives launched by students, staff, and the community. GSNN also brings districts together throughout the year to build capacity, develop leadership, and influence the sustainability in education movement.

Green Schoolyards America partners with school districts and public agencies across the U.S. to establish large-scale living schoolyard programs that transform school grounds into ecologically-rich, park-like green spaces. Our goal is to improve children’s health, learning, and happiness while contributing to communities’ ecological and climate resilience. 

We are working to change the paradigm for school ground design, use, and management so all children will have access to the natural world in the places they already visit on a daily basis. We center equity in our work and collaborate with communities that have the greatest need for educational, environmental, health, and open space improvements.

Jill Pelto is an artist and scientist whose work focuses on communicating human-environment connections. She incorporates scientific research and data directly into her watercolor paintings — from local trends to global changes. Jill’s artwork was featured on the cover of TIME Magazine in July 2020 and has inspired online features in Smithsonian and PBS News Hour. Jill has created a science-art activity based on this idea and has worked with K-12 students across the U.S. and beyond. By pairing graphical information with visual imagery, Jill hopes students can learn about and connect to climate change topics (good, bad, and in-between) in ways that educate and are emotionally relevant. This data-art activity is flexible and allows students to make their own graph art to share topics they care about. 

The Daily Juice improves reading comprehension, vocabulary, quantitative reasoning, and critical thinking by incorporating standards-based assessments into the most engaging news stories of the day.

The Kid Should See This is a Webby award-winning collection of over 7,000 kid-friendly videos, curated for teachers and parents who want to share smarter, more meaningful media in the classroom and at home. Selections are grown-up-friendly, too. And thanks to TKSST members, it’s free and ad-free for everyone. Start conversations, spark questions, and inspire offline exploration for all ages.

The King's Centre for Visualization in Science is a research center committed to improving the global public understanding of science through research and the creation and dissemination of peer-reviewed interactive electronic learning tools to see and understand science.

Harvard University’s LabXchange is a free online platform for science education, created with support from the Amgen Foundation. It makes learning science online flexible and fun, with interactives, lab simulations, and more. 

Learning for a Sustainable Future is a Canadian charity founded in 1991 to integrate sustainability education into Canada’s K-12 school system. Learning for a Sustainable Future focuses on 4 priority areas including: Advancing Education Policy through research and knowledge mobilization; Supporting Educators through delivery of teacher workshops and provision of classroom resources; Youth Engagement through climate action youth leadership forums and climate action project funding; and Celebrating Bright Spots of Innovation through educator and youth awards and the Sustainable Future Schools whole school initiative.

Founded in 2014, the Environmental Solutions Initiative (ESI) is MIT’s institute-wide effort to mobilize the substantial scientific, engineering, policy, and design capacity of the MIT community to contribute to addressing climate change and other environmental challenges of global import. ESI pursues multidisciplinary research, education, events, and partnerships to help move society toward an environmentally and socially sustainable future. Based in Cambridge, Massachusetts on MIT’s main campus, ESI is powered by a lean staff working closely with students and faculty across the full spectrum of disciplines. Led by architecture professor John E. Fernandez, a leading scholar in the emerging field of urban metabolism, ESI is advised by students, faculty, alumni, and thought leaders from many sectors of society.

MIT OpenCourseWare is a free and open collection of material from thousands of MIT courses, covering the entire MIT curriculum. Since 2001, MIT OpenCourseWare has been creating new opportunities for millions of learners and educators, sharing Open Educational Resources (OER) from MIT and helping to lead a global revolution in free access to knowledge.

Mongabay Kids is the dedicated youth education initiative at Mongabay, an award-winning nonprofit environmental and conservation news organization. We provide free, age-appropriate news, features, activities, and multimedia resources that inspire curiosity, ecological understanding, and action. Designed for children ages 8-14, families, and educators, Mongabay Kids empowers the next generation to explore, celebrate, and protect the natural world.

NASA offers petabytes of global Earth science data collected from satellites, but accessing these data in a traditional (or virtual) science classroom can be tricky. Since 2004, My NASA Data has supported students and teachers of grades 3-12 in analyzing and interpreting NASA mission data.

NCSE works with teachers, parents, scientists, and concerned citizens at the local, state, and national levels to ensure that topics like climate change, evolution, and the nature of science are taught accurately, honestly, and confidently.

The National Environmental Education Foundation (NEEF) is the nation's leading organization in lifelong environmental learning, creating opportunities for people to experience and learn about the environment in ways that improve their lives and the health of the planet. NEEF is a non-partisan, non-advocacy organization working to make the environment more accessible, relatable, relevant, and connected to people's daily lives.

The mission of the National Wildlife Federation is to unite all Americans to ensure wildlife thrives in a rapidly changing world. The National Wildlife Federation believes that in order to save wildlife and ourselves, we need to ensure that all Americans have access to clean air and water, safe communities, easy and equitable access to nature, and protection from the ravages of climate change. NWF has a long and respected track record in the field of environmental education and is a leader in applying nature and wildlife conservation to improve K-12 student achievement, particularly in the STEM disciplines, and fostering youth leadership and environmental stewardship. Our programs allow individuals to explore, analyze and take action on many key environmental issues facing communities,  such as climate change, wildlife conservation, and environmental justice, with the end result of creating healthy, resilient, just, and thriving communities.

The Nature Conservancy is a global environmental nonprofit working to create a world where people and nature can thrive. The Nature Conservancy has grown to become one of the most effective and wide-reaching environmental organizations in the world.

New Jersey Agriculture in the Classroom (NJAITC) is a state affiliate for the National Agriculture in the Classroom organization. The mission of the organization is to “increase agricultural literacy through K-12 education." An agriculturally literate person is defined as "one who understands and can communicate the source and value of agriculture as it affects our quality of life." Agriculture in the Classroom programs seek to improve student achievement by applying authentic, agricultural-based content as the context to teach core curriculum concepts in science, social studies, language arts and nutrition.

Dedicated to improving and protecting public health and the environment, NJDEP uses the best available science to guide the conservation of natural and historic resources, ensure a stable climate and resilient communities, and secure clean and healthy air, water and lands throughout New Jersey. A main priority for NJDEP is to reduce and respond to climate change; hence the commitment to support educators implementing NJ Climate Change Learning Standards in all subject areas, at all grade levels.

New Roots Institute's skilled educators visit high school and college classrooms to inspire critical thinking about the connections between industrial animal agriculture and current key issues affecting us all—including impacts on animals, workers, the environment, and human health. Each of our lesson plans is customized to support your course subject matter and your students’ needs. Our educators create a highly interactive experience, rooted in inquiry-based learning to encourage dynamic discussions and lead your students to consider our food system through an expanded lens.

For more than 50 years, NAAEE has been a trusted partner, working to advance environmental education throughout North America and around the world. In the past decade alone, we have supported thousands of educators working in schools, universities, businesses, zoos, aquariums, museums, faith-based organizations, and all levels of government to help create a healthier, more sustainable future for all. Our programs have far-reaching and well-documented impacts. They equip people from all backgrounds with the knowledge and tools needed to make informed choices about energy use, water conservation, land stewardship, and public health. They enhance academic success, bolster STEM learning, and cultivate the problem-solving and innovation skills critical for competing in a global economy.

NYC Parks’ vision is to equitably strengthen our city’s health, environment, and communities through our parks. We are committed to growing, maintaining, and programming a world-class park system that provides all New Yorkers with vital access to green spaces that are clean and safe; alive with nature, people, and community; and resilient to climate change.

OER Project equips teachers with free, innovative curricula and teaching tools that spark curiosity and inspire critical thinking in students. Our courses place student inquiry at the center of learning, and are designed to be adaptable across age levels and state standards.

One Year for Earth (1y4e) offers a variety of ideas, opportunities, and actionable steps to advocate for sustainable solutions and build resilient communities. Our mission is to help you implement smart, effective planning—starting today. The 1y4e Journey is a reliable way to stay on track with your sustainability efforts. By signing up, you’ll engage once a week over the course of a calendar year. Each week, you'll receive an email with a quiz question, a list of seasonal foods, and helpful tips on sustainable practices. As you participate, you’ll earn points that contribute to tree planting on your behalf in certified reforestation efforts and a Certificate of Completion.

Our website and program also guide you in creating a Sustainable Action Plan with goals to help you stay focused throughout the year—all at no cost to you, your organization, or your employer. Additionally, we provide excellent resources for organizations to support and community actions you can join or initiate! Visit our website or reach out to us directly for more information or to assist sharing the 1y4e program with your family, team, or community.

Paleontological Research Institution (PRI) is a national leader in Earth systems science education. They strive to help make sense of the present and potential future climate change, while also increasing understanding of global change in Earth’s past. Their programs focus on systems thinking, understanding scale and learning in your own backyard.

PangeaSeed Foundation is a globally engaged nonprofit organization acting at the intersection of culture and environmentalism to further the conservation of our oceans. Its mission is to empower individuals and communities to create meaningful environmental change for the oceans by raising public awareness of critical environmental issues through SCIENCE, EDUCATION, and ARTIVISM (S.E.A.). Through their groundbreaking Sea Walls: Artists for Oceans public art program, PangeaSeed Foundation has created over 400 educational ocean advocacy murals in 17 countries, bringing the ocean into streets across the globe.

PhET Interactive Simulations at the University of Colorado Boulder creates free interactive math and science simulations. PhET sims are based on extensive education research and engage students through an intuitive, game-like environment where students learn through exploration and discovery.

The Planet Classroom Network brings together musicians, dancers, video game creators, filmmakers, learning innovators, and emerging technologists from all over the world to entertain, educate and engage youth, and provide a rich cultural experience. The Planet Classroom Network is by youth for youth. Young people from around the world played a significant role in conceptualizing, creating, and producing the network’s vision and programming. Key focus areas have been climate change, mental health, and youth leadership. 

Polar Bears International is the only conservation organization solely dedicated to protecting wild polar bears. Through science, advocacy, media, and education, we work to ensure the polar bear’s long-term survival. Together, we can make sure that polar bears roam the sea ice for generations to come and improve conditions for people, too.

Population Education provides K-12 teachers with innovative, hands-on lesson plans and professional development to teach about human population growth and its effects on the environment and human well-being. Human population has grown from 1 billion to 8 billion in just over 200 years, so it is critical to examine human impacts on wildlife, climate, and natural resources while working toward equality and justice for the world’s people. Through memorable, standards-aligned classroom activities like simulations, cooperative challenges, and debate, Population Education inspires students to tackle a variety of real-world problems and to become positively engaged in their communities as the next generation of leaders and policy makers.

Probable Futures offers useful tools and maps to visualize climate change along with stories and insights to help people understand what those changes mean.

Project Drawdown is a nonprofit organization that seeks to help the world reach “drawdown”—the future point in time when levels of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere stop climbing and start to steadily decline. Cities, universities, corporations, philanthropies, policymakers, communities, educators, activists, and more turn to Project Drawdown as they look to advance effective climate action. Project Drawdown resources for educators include the database of Drawdown Solutions, educational video series Climate Solutions 101, the Drawdown Stories initiative, and more. 

Project Look Sharp is a nonprofit, mission-driven outreach program of Ithaca College. Their mission is to help K-16 educators enhance students' critical thinking, metacognition, and civic engagement through media literacy materials and professional development.

Hundreds of scientific articles. Written for kids. Approved by scientists. Free.

Shelburne Farms is an education nonprofit on a mission to inspire and cultivate learning for a sustainable future through its programs, place, and products. We offer transformative learning experiences to help educators, students, and visitors create a more thriving world. Home to the Institute for Sustainable Schools, our historic campus is a 1,400-acre diversified farm located on the homelands of the Winooskik band of the Abenaki.

Skew The Script offers free, genuinely relevant math lessons for high school courses. Is college worth the cost? Are electric cars actually greener? Can you make a living as an influencer? Their nonpartisan lessons challenge students to tackle these questions with statistics, mathematics, and critical thinking.

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.

Stay Grounded is a people-powered, science-based, and action-oriented network for more than 180 member initiatives around the world. The network fosters mutual support and exchange of experiences, and campaigns for a reduction of aviation and its negative impacts, as well as against problematic climate strategies like offsetting emissions and biofuels. It develops materials and background information on multiple topics around the climate impact and injustice of aviation.

Take Action Global (TAG) is a leading education non-profit 501(c)3 organization committed to climate education for all and equitable educational learning opportunities for global educators and PreK-grade 12 students. Over five years, TAG has served over 4.4 million students and educators from 157 countries through online learning programs and has supported over 2 million tree plantings. Take Action Global brings communities together in online spaces for authentic learning experiences, including Climate Action Project, Climate Action Day, and Climate Action Schools. TAG partners include international experts and world leaders, including the UN, UN Environmental Programme, Earth Day Organization, NASA, LEGO Group, Cartoon Network, Fridays for Future, the U.S. Department of State, and the Jane Goodall Institute. Event speakers have included Prince William, Dr. Jane Goodall, Rick Davis (Mars Expedition, NASA), and Sir David Attenborough. Learn more: www.takeactionglobal.org. 

The Climate Initiative is a nonpartisan, science-based climate change organization based in Kennebunkport, Maine whose mission is to empower youth voices for climate action. Through national education and empowerment initiatives, youth are learning about climate solutions and becoming agents of change in their communities and beyond. Learn more about TCI by connecting with us on Instagram, Facebook and Twitter.

Technical Education Research Centers (TERC) is an independent research-based nonprofit organization. They are dedicated to inspiring and engaging learners through stimulating research, materials and tool development, and professional development.

Ten Strands is a California–based nonprofit established in 2012. Their mission is to strengthen the partnerships, strategies, and systems that advance environmental literacy, ensuring all California TK–12 students thrive in sustainable, resilient schools and engage in meaningful environmental learning experiences, both in and beyond the classroom. They operate with a small, diverse, and nimble staff and strategic partners throughout the state. Ten Strands utilizes the largest and most diverse institution in California—the public school system—to impact 58 county offices of education, more than 1,000 school districts, approximately 10,000 individual schools, over 300,000 teachers, and 5.8 million children. 

This Is Planet Ed, an initiative of the Energy and Environment Program of the Aspen Institute, seeks to unlock the power of education as a force for climate action, climate solutions, and environmental justice. Our goal is to empower the next generation to lead a sustainable, resilient, and equitable future.

Torace is a mentor matching platform created by former educators and human capital leaders in education seeking to improve and make more equitable the match process for student teaching, new teacher coaching, teacher training, etc. The Torace platform allows you to manage mentors and mentees in one place, gather critical information through profiles, and make higher-quality matches using that information.

We create parks and protect land for people, ensuring healthy, livable communities for generations to come.

UCI Science Project is grounded in research-based educational practices and understands the paradigm shifts needed for the Next Generation Science Standards. Our goal is to support educators as transformative leaders who build capacity in their schools through empowering learning experiences. We are firmly committed to addressing racial, social, and environmental injustices through collaborative efforts that position educators as agents of change for community action.

UndauntedK12 is a national nonprofit working to ensure that every student has the opportunity to attend a safe, healthy, and climate-resilient school. We envision a future where every dollar spent on K-12 infrastructure is aligned with building an equitable, zero-carbon, climate-resilient future; where every education leader recognizes and acts on the threat of rapidly changing climate to their core mission; and where every student is prepared to shape a sustainable future in a rapidly changing climate.

The Understanding Global Change (UGC) Project at the University of California, Berkeley, Museum of Paleontology can help you discover why the climate and environment changes, your place in the Earth system, and paths to a resilient future. We provide a framework and tools for understanding and modeling climate and environmental change, curriculum planning guides, and professional learning programs that support systems thinking. The UGC Project partners with teachers, scientists, school districts, curriculum writers, informal educators, and community organizations across the country to integrate climate science and action into K-16 curricula and informal learning environments.

Videos for Change is a worldwide community of young people creating original, short-form video content on issues that matter most to them. The delta of our work is social change where young people fill the frame. We are global citizens championing diverse viewpoints that animate our collective future. One idea. One video. One minute at a time.

The Water Footprint Calculator is a website that gives educators and students innovative tools and content about water use and the water footprint concept. The website contains the Water Footprint Calculator tool, high school and middle school lesson plans, in-depth information pages, water-saving tips, reports and more. This educational content helps students recognize that consumption of food, energy and consumer goods has a greater impact on their water consumption than they might realize.

WhyMaker supports educators by delivering excellent professional development that helps students have better days in the classroom.

Established in partnership with the Bezos Earth Fund, WRI’s Electric School Bus Initiative collaborates with partners and communities to build unstoppable momentum toward an equitable transition of the U.S. school bus fleet to electric by 2030, bringing health, climate, and economic benefits to children and families across the country and normalizing electric mobility for an entire generation.

The Yale Program on Climate Change Communication conducts scientific research on public opinion and behavior. They also engage the public in climate change science and solutions, in partnerships with governments, media, companies, and civil society.