How to Teach Climate Change to Kids and their Communities: Engaging Strategies for Taking Action

Interdisciplinary STEAM education for everyone

This is the first of articles about educating elementary students and their communities to approach climate change through learning and taking action.

STEAM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Art, and Math) education is a practical, hands-on process for teaching about climate awareness. To be sure, it’s challenging to fathom teaching something this serious to children.

Children are the earth’s future; teachers, parents, and community members of every persuasion must know that being aware of the consequences and solutions to climate change is one of humanity’s most vital issues.

Research has shown that implementing interdisciplinary STEAM to educate about climate awareness improves academic knowledge in various subject-specific disciplines (Quigley et al., 2017).

STEAM, Camera, Action

The process I model in this section I’ve dubbed STEAM, Camera, Action. It’s based upon an idea presented by Trott (2022), a researcher who, in 2016 ran an after-school program called SCA (Science, Camera, Act…