cle: A Pathfinder

This is a computer-generated pathfinder created against the Distant Reader study called cle.

Each Distant Reader study carrel is composed of many individual items. Each item is bibliographically described with author, title, date, summary, and keyword values. Below is a list of the items' most signficant keywords as well as lists of the items themselves. Purpusing the content of this pathfinder provides the student, researcher, or scholar with one way to get their heads around the scope of the carrel. The keywords include:

Students; Education; Literacy; Water; Change; Children; Nature; Keywords; Action; People; Book; Crisis; Human; World; Stories; Teachers; Story; Tan; Minnesota; School; Film; Art; Bicycle; Greenhouse; Bees; Pope

Depending on how this pathfinder was created, many of the bibliographic sections will include elaborations on the meaning(s) of the given keywords. These elaborations were generated by feeding the items' summaries to a large langauge model and asking the model to address the question, "What is X?", where "X" is the keyword. The result will be a few sentences of elaboration. Be forewarned. The elaborations are often plausible, but they should not be take as truth. Instead, they should be taken as points for consideration.

• Reconnecting with Nature through Haiku by Kerslake, Lorraine (2023) - Rather than communicate what to think and feel, haiku poems stress particular importance of the here and now. The appreciation of the ordinary and the emphasis on the present moment allows haiku poems to capture and imagine events from a participatory point of view. Keywords: climate; haiku; nature; students
• Critical Literacy and Climate Change: 11th Grade Language and Literature Climate Mini-Unit by Hartzell, Abby (2023) - After such a rich conversation about individual versus collective action, I was hoping students would think beyond classic individual actions, but most students said they planned to “use a reusable straw” or “drive less just for fun.” After completing this unit, students will understand the widespread, inequitable impacts of climate change and are equipped to engage with climate-related media and literature through a critical lens. Keywords: change; climate; literacy; students; unit
• Seeing through Water: The Impact of Our Decisions by Braucht, Sonja (2023) - Keywords biodiversity, climate literacy, climate change, collective action, sustainability, youth climate activism, multimodal texts Overview This unit came from a desire to engage students in understanding climate change in an accessible and meaningful way. In a district that is heavily influenced by the prominence of agriculture and political views that challenge the urgency of climate change, it was important to find ways to bring students into the conversation through personal connections and layering of texts. Keywords: climate; keywords; students; water
• Finding a Way Through: Teaching with Naomi Klein’s How to Change Everything: The Young Human’s Guide to Protecting the Planet and Each Other by Hunt, Kirsten (2023) - Climate anxiety: Psychological responses to climate change. How to Change Everything: The Young Human’s Guide to Protecting the Planet and Each Other (2021) by Naomi Klein exemplifies what I consider to be a key developmental process in understanding climate change and teaching climate literacy: knowledge, action, and hopeful futures. Keywords: change; climate; klein; students
• Youth Production of Digital Media to Address the Climate Crisis by Beach, Richard; Smith, Blaine (2023) - An analysis of youth participation in the LOCC project found that their participation in the project enhanced students' re-seeing (through their visual portrayals of climate change impacts), as well as their re-enactment (by shaping their thinking around how they could help their communities) that translates into direct action or continued communication with family file:///Users/mco/Downloads/t.ly/IHrmq file:///Users/mco/Downloads/t.ly/IHrmq http://z.umn.edu/sustainabilityinvestigationsolutionsvideo https://www.evc.org/ https://www.evc.org/ http://vimeo.com/369988483 http://vimeo.com/369988483 https://www.uml.edu/research/climate-change https://vimeo.com/70140870 http://t.ly/t9w6 Woodbury ú Building a Database 54 or community members about climate change and other environmental challenges after the program (Littrell et al., 2022, p. 18). 56% of American youth are frequently referencing climate change topics online and 45% are posting messages about climate change through use of media (Tyson, 2021). Keywords: change; chapter; climate; media; project; students; use; youth
• Staying with the Climate Trouble: On (Not) Containing the Crisis in the Classroom by Zimmerman, Lee (2023) - Keywords climate pedagogy, climate change, climate crisis, eco-anxiety, How to Change Everything, “staying with the trouble,” hope Indeed, even the term crisis can be seen to keep the most disruptive meanings of climate change at a distance, lumped together with other crises, like the “debt crisis.” Keywords: change; climate; crisis; students
• 9th Grade Language & Literature 8 Lesson Unit : Critical Literacy and Climate Action by Abby Hartzell (2024) - Narrative framing for climate literacy unit This 8-lesson unit began with a “four corners” activity where students shared their agree/disagree responses to a series of prompts about the unit’s key terms: climate change, biodiversity, anthropocentrism/ecocentrism, and environmental justice (see climate literacy term definitions in “Curriculum at a Glance” below). Of these additions, I am most proud of the Climate Action Project (CAP) assignment which helped my students gain a deeper understanding of the complexities of climate action. Keywords: action; climate; literacy; students; unit
• “It Was Beautiful Here, and Then the Pollution Came”: : Researching Youth Climate Emotion in Coastal Ecuador by Nandyal, Neela (2023) - I discuss how teens in this community experience both climate despair and climate hope and look to nearby nature to inform their thoughts on climate change. What did youth think about local sustainability efforts and climate change more broadly? Keywords: change; climate; hope; students
• Picturebook dialogues about environmental and social (in)justice by Goga, Nina; Pujol-Valls, Maria; Agostini, Rebecca ; Carolo, Debora ; Nai, Giulia; Silvestrini, Giulia; Sardella, Ilaria (2023) - The mobility project Green Dialogues is focused on enhancing the quality of teacher education by strengthening student teachers’ and staff’s ecocritical thinking and collaboration competency. Keywords Ecocritical dialogue, children’s literature, infographics, UN Agenda 2030, teacher education A student mobility project focusing on ecocritical thinking and collaboration The five infographics were created by student teachers involved in the mobility project Green Dialogues, a collaboration between Western Norway University of Applied Sciences (HVL, Bergen, Norway), the University of Padova (UNIPD, Padova, Italy), and Hartzell ú Critical Literacy and Climate Action 8 the Universitat Internacional de Catalunya (UIC, Barcelona, Spain). Keywords: activities; book; children; climate; education; literacy; reading; story; students; teacher
• Implementing Ecojustice Praxis in Children's Literature Courses by Hindhede, Karen (2024) - Ecojustice pedagogy—a practical application of ecojustice education—recognizes the brutality and injustice that historically minoritized peoples and the natural world https://unesdoc.unesco.org/ark:/48223/pf0000379381 https://unesdoc.unesco.org/ark:/48223/pf0000379381 https://www.climatelit.org/topic/ecojustice_pedagogy/ https://www.itejournal.org/wp-content/pdfs-issues/summer-2018/05martusewicz.pdf Climate Literacy in Education, Volume 2, Issue 1 (Fall 2024) 7 experience, as perpetuated through language and social/cultural assumptions, while enabling learners to rectify social-ecological oppression (Lupinacci et al., 2018; Martusewicz et al., 2021). Hindhede ú Implementing Ecojustice Praxis 6 Implementing Ecojustice Praxis in Children’s Literature Courses Karen Hindhede, Central Arizona College, Coolidge, AZ, USA Abstract Faculty must do more to include ecojustice pedagogy, including climate change education, in higher education. Keywords: children; climate; ecojustice; education; literature; pedagogy; students
• Complete Issue by none (2024) - An analysis of youth participation in the LOCC project found that their participation in the project enhanced students' re-seeing (through their visual portrayals of climate change impacts), as well as their re-enactment (by shaping their thinking around how they could help their communities) that translates into direct action or continued communication with family file:///Users/mco/Downloads/t.ly/IHrmq file:///Users/mco/Downloads/t.ly/IHrmq http://z.umn.edu/sustainabilityinvestigationsolutionsvideo https://www.evc.org/ https://www.evc.org/ http://vimeo.com/369988483 http://vimeo.com/369988483 https://www.uml.edu/research/climate-change https://vimeo.com/70140870 http://t.ly/t9w6 Beach and Smith ú Youth Production of Digital Media 54 or community members about climate change and other environmental challenges after the program (Littrell et al., 2022, p. 18). Since I started teaching climate literacy, I have noticed that students often fixate on individual actions, like buying an electric car, as the main solutions to climate change. Keywords: action; book; care; children; click; climate; climate action; climate change; climate crisis; climate literacy; dialogues; eco; education; fiction; framework; hope; human; issue; life; literacy education; literature; media; nature; new; oziewicz; people; project; reading; stories; story; students; teacher; teaching; time; unit; university; use; volume; way; winter; world; youth; youth climate
• Complete Issue (Volume 1, Issue 1) by none (2024) - Keywords biodiversity, climate literacy, climate change, collective action, sustainability, youth climate activism, multimodal texts Overview This unit came from a desire to engage students in understanding climate change in an accessible and meaningful way. Climate change is the key existential issue of our time. Keywords: abstract; action; activism; boardbooks; books; children; climate change; climate literacy; education; environmental; future; haiku; help; human; issue; keywords; learning; literature; live; nature; people; planet; research; school; science; spring; stories; story; students; teachers; teaching; unit; university; volume; water; world; young
• Confronting Climate Denial with an Intergenerational Conversation/Song by Damico, James (2024) - Keywords climate pedagogy, climate crisis, eco-anxiety, Staying with the Trouble For me, that teacherly trouble has partly involved an awareness that, in issuing such an invitation, to some degree I’m likely dealing with my own climate anxiety by passing it along to classes of college students who as a group (along with high schoolers) even before COVID-19 was suffering what the National Education Association called an “epidemic of anxiety” (Flannery, 2018, n.p). Keywords: climate; knowing; question; students; trouble
• City of Pure Water:: A Place-Based Argumentative Writing Unit by Werthwine, Katharine (2024) - Climate Literacy Terms Harmful Algal Blooms (HABs); red tide; hurricanes; storm surge, watershed, drought, erosion, sinkholes Objectives ● Students will work together collaboratively to identify and argue for community-based solutions to an environmental issue with local impacts. ● Students will be able to construct a logical and coherent argument using a visual structure. Keywords: students; unit; water; writing
• Life-giver, Death-bringer:: Instructional Ideas for Exploring Water in the Middle Grades Novel Ninth Ward by Kershen, Julianna (2024) - Kerhsenú Life-giver, Death-bringer 40 Life-giver, Death-bringer: Instructional Ideas for Exploring Water in the Middle Grades Novel Ninth Ward Julianna Lopez Kershen, University of Oklahoma, Norman, OK, USA Abstract Teaching children about water and symbolism through literature can be an excellent way to engage their imagination while developing their analytical skills. There is much for middle grades readers to explore in Ninth Ward, as teachers can support student-centered research into water use in local communities, combine content to craft interdisciplinary studies, and analyze the figurative and literary references to water with students. Keywords: life; new; novel; research; students; ward; water; writing
• Water Aways Means Something: : A Symbolism Unit Plan by Bullock, Jay (2024) - So does Alice Walker’s poem, “When You See Water,” which Figure 1: QR code to resources https://bit.ly/WaterMeans Climate Literacy in Education Volume 2, Issue 2 (Special Issue) 21 explicitly says that water cannot be held or shaped or owned: “And so it is with you,” Walker concludes. In this article, I present the outline of and possibilities for a high school English unit examining writers’ symbolic use of water. Keywords: change; climate; means; students; unit; water
• Creating An Ecopedagogical Teaching Framework by Hindhede, Karen (2025) - This change reflects my emphasis on incorporating student needs and interests throughout the course and applicable assignments (Bovill, https://sdgs.un.org/goals https://sdgs.un.org/goals https://climatecommunication.yale.edu/ https://www.climatelit.org/ Climate Literacy in Education, Volume 3, Issue 1 (Summer 2025) 63 2020; Perin, 2011). Graduate education courses often include similar assignments and may even expand on the idea of students creating their own pedagogical framework, a multi-modal visual, to aid their vision as educators. Keywords: ecojustice; framework; inclusive; pedagogy; students
• Dispatches from the Future: Speculative Fiction and Climate Modeling in the Secondary Science Classroom by Gliddon, Luke (2025) - Here, I reflect on my experiences using published media, highly accessible climate modeling, and a mental time travel project to help students practice inhabiting better futures in a science- backed way. Gliddonú Dispatches from the Future 10 Some years ago, I began using the ENROADs climate simulator as a way to build systems-thinking as well as a pedagogical device for students to test assumptions regarding our climate systems. Keywords: climate; future; modeling; science; students; texts
• Staying with the Climate Trouble: Part Two by Zimmerman, Lee (2024) - Keywords climate pedagogy, climate crisis, eco-anxiety, Staying with the Trouble For me, that teacherly trouble has partly involved an awareness that, in issuing such an invitation, to some degree I’m likely dealing with my own climate anxiety by passing it along to classes of college students who as a group (along with high schoolers) even before COVID-19 was suffering what the National Education Association called an “epidemic of anxiety” (Flannery, 2018, n.p). Keywords: climate; knowing; question; students; trouble
• Zines and Water:: How Zines Can Help Students Understand Water Issues by Hagey, Tiffany (2024) - This specific lesson centered around AP Seminar students individually reading a book chapter and organizing their key takeaways and summarized text in the form of a pocket zine. AP Seminar students would use this text set to practice some reading strategies, including close reading annotations, connecting text to class, pulling main ideas and key details, and generating possible questions that arise while reading the water text set. Keywords: students; text; water; zines
• Water is Life:: Teaching Climate in the Classroom by Haque, Danielle (2024) - The Minnesota Center for Environmental Haqueú Water is Life 76 Advocacy reports that 40% of Minnesota waters are impaired, and hundreds of lakes and rivers are not drinkable, fishable, or swimmable. How can they contemplate the idea that water is life, considering both their Dakota neighbors in Standing Rock and the people of Gaza? Keywords: life; minnesota; standing; students; water
• Water in Balance with Mind and Body:: Reflections of Expanding a Water Unit to the Community by R. Braucht, Sonja (2024) - This discussion emphasizes the significance of community involvement, the role of project- based learning in enhancing student engagement, and the integration of social- emotional learning within the broader context of climate literacy. Student engagement was high as we integrated activities such as sewing, drawing, and expressing our voices through actions. Keywords: climate; students; water
• Complete Issue (Vol 2, Issue 2) by none (2024) - In fact, however, over 72 percent of Americans believe that climate change is real, over 70 percent believe it will harm future generations, and over 58 percent believe it is already harming people in the US today. As Jonathan Mingle writes, “Even under President Biden, who has said he thinks climate change is an existential crisis and who has done more than any president before him to confront it, Americans have been woefully unprepared for the climate upheavals that are coming—and for those that have already arrived.” Keywords: action; adults; agency; book; children; climate; climate change; climate crisis; climate literacy; crisis; democracy; earth; ecojustice; education; educators; environmental; fall; framework; hope; human; issue; jillian; justice; literature; nature; nausicaä; novel; people; snake; social; stories; story; students; trouble; university; volume; water; way; world; young
• Introduction to the Special Issue:: Water as Conflict and Water as Commons by Rollag Yoon, Stephanie; Panos, Alexandra; Doerr-Stevens, Candance (2024) - Global Water Dances are described as a rich space to conduct large university-public school partnerships focusing on transdisciplinary ways to raise awareness about water issues, promote sustainability, and inspire action to project water resources, all guided by children’s messages about their rights to clean water. Arts-based approaches to water stories are further highlighted and explored in an easily translatable lesson by Melanie Ariens and Rhonda Nordstrom who position drawing our own water stories as building empathy with human and more-than-human kin alike. Keywords: climate; issue; literacy; students; water
• How Could I Not Have Known About the Climate Crisis? Developing a Cross-Curricular Climate Change Education Program by Rudd, Jennifer (2025) - I didn’t know that actually we’d already burnt so much fossil fuel that we had warmed our planet by over one degree Celsius and that the global population was already experiencing the dramatic effects of climate change. Then I asked an even bigger question: ‘Was it possible to teach climate change in a way that effected behavioural change?’ Keywords: change; climate; program; students
• Reflections on Teaching Provocatively by Hunter, Cheryl (2025) - This reflection identifies key themes from students and the instructor of a place-based environmental methods education course. After all, if we want teachers and students to be able to address the climate emergency, we need to move beyond a facts-and-figures approach to climate pedagogy attends to the development of teachers and students’ values, attitudes, and behaviors. Keywords: coulee; peers; students
• Cultivating Critique, Hope & Action: : The Cordel as a Multimodal Invitation to Environmental Education Topics by Fletcher, Lauren; Holyoke, Erica (2025) - This approach activates and builds students' individual and collective background knowledge by presenting a variety of related artifacts along a string or cordel. The cordel is a multimodal, interactive instructional strategy that invites students to engage with environmental education topics by exploring a variety of curated artifacts displayed along a string. Keywords: cordel; education; learning; literacy; students
• Special Places in School: Using Provocative Pedagogy to Teach Place-Based Environmental Education by Hunter, Cheryl; Campbell, Leila (2025) - Climate Literacy in Education, Volume 3, Issue 1 (Summer 2025) 29 Special Places in School Using Provocative Pedagogy to Teach Place-Based Environmental Education Cheryl Hunter, University of North Dakota, Grand Forks, North Dakota, USA Leila Campbell, University of North Dakota, Grand Forks, North Dakota, USA Abstract Place-based education is more than a classroom structure; it is providing outdoor experiences connecting students with their natural landscape and nurturing a deep bond with their immediate outdoor environment. This unit begins by providing an evocative and sensory experience of place- based learning before students are introduced to specific design principles and environmental education methods, thus providing a lived experience by which to first ground students’ understandings. Keywords: coulee; education; place; students
• The Story of More by none (2025) - I start by telling my students that although reading science-based texts can be boring or the technicality of the information can be difficult to understand, Hope Jahren is able to share the history of climate change in such a way that anyone reading the book can understand. For the button, students could use an image, quote, fact, or a mix from the book for the creation of their button. Keywords: students
• Climate Justice in Minnesota by none (2025) - Climate Literacy in Education, Volume 3, Issue 2 (Special Issue) 11 I understand climate justice as such: the climate crisis affects people differently depending on where they live, their resources, and their ability to recover from disasters. Our high school offers various ways for students to engage in climate justice and climate literacy. Keywords: climate; students
• An Antidote to Ecophobia: : Opportunities for Awe through Books for Young Readers by Degener, Rebekah; Jackson, Sarah (2025) - Young children learn through tactile experiences, so providing opportunities for them to touch and play with tangible natural elements in safe and respectful ways, such as getting their hands dirty while planting seeds, can help them understand humanity’s reciprocal relationship with nature. Children might rely on Little Land as a mentor text to write a love letter/story to/about the element of nature they love. Keywords: awe; children; environment; nature; students
• From Science to Stories:: Analyzing and Creating Picturebooks in an English Learner Classroom by Emery, Jess (2025) - Although our program includes co-taught content classes, the class I teach independently is our Advanced Reading and Writing course for students who are orally proficient in English, close to exiting out of the EL program, and need a final boost in academic writing before they are mainstreamed in Language Arts. I’d had them write previously) I decided to spend some time addressing climate science—especially since I had students who didn’t have much prior knowledge of it. Keywords: climate; crisis; science; students; writing
• Interdisciplinary Learning Goals for 21st-Century Climate Education by Eric Nolan; Samantha Johnson; Kathryn Hayes; Emily Harris; Karina Garbesi (2025) - This article introduces a set of climate justice learning goals developed through collaboration among teachers, administrators, students, and researchers as part of the Climate Solutionaries Community (CSC) Project. An interdisciplinary product: Climate justice learning goals The learning goals were developed utilizing a co-design method that included an extensive brainstorming, design, and revision process (Penuel, 2019; Roschelle, Penuel, and Shechtman, 2006). Keywords: california; climate; goals; hands; heart; learning; students

• What Is Climate Literacy? by Oziewicz, Marek (2023) - Keywords climate literacy, climate science literacy, NOAA, climate change education (CCE), ecocentrism, care, CLICK framework, CCESD framework, ecological design intelligence, sustainable development First, a working definition of climate literacy. Given the organizational profiles of NOAA and AAAS, climate literacy was from the start framed as a synonym for “climate science literacy”: learning about the science behind climate research and the science behind how the Earth system works. Keywords: abstract; change; climate; climate literacy; education; keywords; literacy; science
• Introduction: Climate Literacy as Resistance, Hope, and Activism by Oziewicz, Marek (2023) - Our double-blind, peer-review process ensures that our content is academically rigorous and constitutes scholarship in the emerging field of climate literacy education. On this level, the work of CLE aligns with the mission of the Center for Climate Literacy at the University of Minnesota’s College of Education and Human Development: to develop research, training, and design solutions for climate literacy education in K-12 classrooms. Keywords: change; climate; education; literacy; teachers
• Introduction: Climate Literacy Work After COP28 by Kleese, Nick; Oziewicz, Marek (2024) - And if this message strikes you as contrary to the very idea of COPs or climate action, it also suggests that a transformation toward an ecological civilization will first need to be achieved in the realm of stories: in words that recognize the truth of our predicament and help imagine the way forward. Or with its key strategy of addressing climate change through negotiations at Conference of the Parties (COP) summits. Keywords: change; climate; cop28; education; fossil; literacy; oil; year
• Visual Stories as Educational Tools:: Multimodal Discourse Analysis of Children’s Picture Books on Environmental Awareness by Yang, Wenyan (2024) - Discussion and Implications The analysis of We Are Water Protectors and Autumn Peltier, Water Warrior underscores the potent role of visual narratives in advocacy for environmental education. Methods This study examines two children's picturebooks, We Are Water Protectors and Autumn Peltier, Water Warrior, which were selected for their thematic focus on water protection. Keywords: autumn; development; education; protectors; water
• The Significance of Lived Experiences in Developing Eco-Literacy: Pedagogical Insights for Climate Education by Firinci Orman, Turkan (2025) - Similar mapping activities in climate literacy education can validate young people’s lived experiences, fostering deeper discussions on the climate crisis and decision-making. It advocates for a pedagogical framework that emphasizes collective learning, creative expression, and place-based approaches to enhance climate literacy among young people. Keywords: climate; education; experiences; firinci; literacy; orman; youth
• Introduction: The Road Taken by Oziewicz, Marek; Kleese, Nick (2024) - In this Introduction, we envision possibilities for climate action and climate literacy education under the Trump administration. Keywords U.S. presidential election, climate action, climate literacy education Welcome to the third issue of Climate Literacy in Education! Keywords: action; change; climate; crisis; education; issue; literacy; people
• Introducing the 3T-Approach to Climate Change Literacy by Bartosch, Roman; Hoydis, Julia; Gurr, Jens Martin (2025) - Climate change literacy. This https://www.cambridge.org/core/elements/climate-change-literacy/D256FE812AD61E90B6B5286B8F472580 Climate Literacy in Education, Volume 3, Issue 1 (Summer 2025) 47 research was integral to our probing into what might be the most pressing question in climate literacy education: How does reading lead to action? Keywords: approach; change; climate; education; fiction; literacy
• A Reason for Hope: Situating Arts Education within Eco-Justice Approaches to Climate Literacy by Maloney Leaf, Betsy; Delisle, Heather; Redmond, Colleen (2025) - The following article theorizes our experience of implementing this PD workshop with high school educators in April 2024; our experiences confirm that when educators consider how to provide opportunities for young people to develop climate literacy while expressing their feelings about climate change, it has the potential to connect to broader conversations around youth mental health. Workshop Design Guided by research in education highlighting climate literacy and adolescent youth, we partnered with high school educators to explore the following question: what do K12 educators need to know about climate change in order to support their students as they develop climate literacy? Keywords: climate; education; future; health; literacy; youth
• Hope is in Our Hands by none (2025) - Fiber art T. created for bookstore catalogue Higher Education Humanitiesú Minnesotaú Hope is in Our Hands 30 Daily squares I just read The Service Berry by Robin Wall Kimmerer. Two sewn dresses Checkered vest made with alpaca yarn Climate Literacy in Education, Volume 3, Issue 2 (Special Issue) 29 T.’s capstone project for an art and identity course In college, courses on environmental biology, social class, and pedagogy opened my eyes to environmental racism and environmental justice— especially how certain groups are bearing the brunt of the climate monstrosities, including poor communities and communities with primarily Black and Brown folks. Keywords: education; hope
• Fascists Fear Education: Why We Need Climate Justice Education Now by none (2025) - The shirt was a bit too accurate in describing the current assault on higher education. Our curriculum, from early childhood to higher education, must then evolve faster and be oriented toward a hopeful and just future. Keywords: climate; education
• Watersheds as Place:: Integrating Biocultural Awareness and Experiential Place-based Professional Development by Raboin, Sydney; Hunter, Joshua (2025) - Beyond ecophobia: Reclaiming the heart in nature education. This forced us to reckon with what funds of knowledge teachers bring to their lessons and how we might foster a greater level of engagement by providing deeper accounts of local biocultural history. Keywords: education; learning; nature; place; teachers
• Climate Justice Is More than a Political Football by none (2025) - Too often, the discourse around climate education becomes muddled, reduced to a question of belief rather than understanding. This interconnectedness would foster a true inclusiveness, ensuring that climate education is accessible to every student. Keywords: climate; education
• The Long Game: Climate Education After DOGE by Oziewicz, Marek; Kleese, Nick (2025) - While the damage done and stakes ahead are undeniable, we envision possibilities for climate action and climate literacy education going forward. Keywords U.S. presidential election, climate erasure, climate literacy education, climate devastation, energy transition, persistence Welcome to the first issue of CLE published since January 2025. Keywords: climate; education; energy; issue; literacy; new; summer
• Introduction: Why We Need Climate Justice Education by Oziewicz, Marek; Kleese, Nick (2025) - The goal was to provide twenty-four teachers with an opportunity to develop a literature-based, theory-informed, actionable understanding of climate justice for the ELA classroom. The focus on climate justice—defined as considerations of climate change vulnerability relative to responsibility—was central for two reasons. Keywords: climate; education; future; justice; literacy
• Post-apocalyptic Narratives for Climate Change Education by Hasheminezhad-Li, Chang (2025) - Abstract This article examines the challenges of incorporating post-apocalyptic narratives into Climate Change Education (CCE). Keywords Post-apocalyptic narratives, Climate Change Education, hope education, agency, retro-futurism Introduction Post-apocalyptic narratives have become valuable tools for ecological education. Keywords: action; agency; change; climate; education; narratives; state; stålenhag
• Adultism, Intergenerational Solidarity, and The Tantrum that Saved the World by Kleese, Nick (2025) - Kleeseú Adultism 62 Adultism, Intergenerational Solidarity, and The Tantrum that Saved the World Nick Kleese, University of Minnesota-Twin Cities, Minnesota, USA Abstract Climate literacy education endeavors to prepare young people to live well in a climate changing world. Presumably this is also the aim of literature for young people about the climate crisis, especially of books including depictions of youth activists. Keywords: adultism; children; climate; education; people; tantrum; youth

• The Science Behind the Stories : A Research-Based Transdisciplinary Approach to Climate Literacy by Young, Rebecca; Corliss, Mary-Alice; Vicens, Lisa (2023) - “The Swallowing Sea” establishes the conflict between Mara’s expectations to continue to live on the island of Wing and the reality of global sea level rise, due to climate change, that will https://www.climatelit.org/literature/exodus/ https://books.google.com/books?id=l9sT5bod3OcC&printsec=frontcover#v=onepage&q&f=false Climate Literacy in Education, Volume 1, Issue 1 (Spring 2023) 11 soon swallow the island. Keywords climate change, sea level rise, climate science, pedagogical models, science fiction, fantasy, Exodus A Pedagogical Model for Exploring the Science Behind the Stories Storytelling is a practice that has a long history in helping humanity make sense of the world. Keywords: change; climate; literacy; science; world
• You Are Here by Werthwine, Katharine (2023) - Keywords vulnerability, embodiment, zine, place-based learning, place-based pedagogy https://www.climatelit.org/topic/place-based-education/ https://www.climatelit.org/topic/place-based-pedagogy/ https://www.climatelit.org/topic/vulnerability/ https://www.climatelit.org/topic/embodiment/ https://www.climatelit.org/topic/zine/ https://www.climatelit.org/topic/place-based-education/ https://www.climatelit.org/topic/place-based-pedagogy/ Climate Literacy in Education, Volume 1, Issue 1 (Spring 2023) 49 Editorial Collective About CLE Acknowledgements Volume 1, Issue 1, Spring 2023 Table of Contents Introduction: Climate Literacy as Resistance, Hope, and Activism Climate Change and Critical Literacy 11th Grade Language and Literature Climate Mini-Unit Abstract Keywords Overview Narrative Framing At a Glance Going Forward The Science Behind the Stories: A Research-Based Transdisciplinary Approach to Climate Literacy Abstract Keywords A Pedagogical Model for Exploring the Science Behind the Stories Real-World Performance Task Design Read the Narrative Explore the Science Reflect on Perspectives Analyze Contexts Examine Data Evaluate Solutions Collaborate to Problem-Solve Create and Communicate Demonstrate Learning Interested in Piloting a Climate Literacy Task? Toward Ecotopia Abstract Keywords References Critical Dialogue: Climate Literacy in Context Abstract Keywords References What is Climate Literacy? Keywords: keywords; literacy
• The CLICK Framework: A Care-Centric Conceptual Map for Organizing Climate Literacy Pedagogy by Oziewicz, Marek (2023) - Keywords climate literacy pedagogy, CLICK, climate literacy capabilities, climate literacy knowledges, Indigenous worldview, Indigenous knowledge(s) The goal of using the CLICK framework in classroom activities is to help students 1) learn to think about the workings of the world in terms of these four domains, 2) develop an understanding of their role as agents of care and change in a complex living system, and 3) identify, name, and build students’ climate literacy capabilities and knowledges for each of the four domains. Keywords: capabilities; care; click; climate; framework; literacy
• Building a Database and Website for Eco-fiction Resources by Woodbury, Mary (2023) - The site explores the breathtaking literary scope of eco-fiction: a diverse field of stories which includes environmental and nature themes in Black and Indigenous fiction, literary fiction, science fiction, fantasy, solarpunk, and more. Abstract This essay offers an overview of Dragonfly.eco—a collaborative project for exploring eco-fiction—and its evolution over the period of the last ten years. Keywords: book; climate; dragonfly; eco; fiction; literacy
• Looking Upstream:: Discourse Analysis and Water Justice in Literacy Education by Rebecca Rogers; Schaenen, Inda (2024) - Water, Little Water brings students into the text to explore issues of water justice: “[My] students …looked at [the book] again and used the author's poetry style to write their own poems about water issues that resonated with their own lives while focusing on specific writing objectives such as writing in full complete sentences.” We examine a few curricular artifacts from our Literacy Clinic—dually focused on responsive literacy instruction and water justice—to illustrate our entanglements with linguistic systems, discourses, and narratives. Keywords: analysis; discourse; justice; literacy; louis; text; water
• Troubling the Waters:: Using Stories to Complicate and Deepen our Connections to Water by Doerr-Stevens, Candance (2024) - In an attempt to cultivate a more dynamic and diverse set of relationships to water for myself, my children, and the many teachers I work with, I have begun collecting and sharing titles of water narratives that present bodies of water in different ways. USA Abstract This article provides an overview of “Water as Resource, Relative and Place”: an online collection of eco texts including picturebooks, chapter books, YA novels, and media texts that illustrate a wide range of relationships with water. Keywords: climate; figure; literacy; living; picturebook; relationships; river; water
• Developing Climate Literacy through Artistic Practice by Maloney Leaf, Betsy; Delisle, Heather; Redmond, Colleen (2025) - First, we highlighted an article from the New York Times (Soloski, 2024), that describes how a “doom and gloom” approach to the climate crisis has not worked Malone Leaf, Delisle, & Redmondú Climate Literacy through Artistic Practice 26 effectively to engage global citizens in climate crisis conversations. As workshop participants reflected on ways to incorporate climate conversations into their classrooms, we offered “stories to live by” (Damico, Baildon, & Panos, 2020) as a possible avenue to explore with students. Keywords: climate; crisis; future; literacy; practice
• Facts, Fictions, Doom, and Gloom: Three Principles of Climate Literacy Communication and Pedagogies by Oziewicz, Marek (2025) - Keywords climate literacy pedagogy, Six Americas, climate facts, climate politics, doom & gloom, climate emotions, climate literacy In April 2024, I presented at a colleague’s undergraduate class at the University of Minnesota, introducing students to climate literacy. 43 Yes, climate change is real but calling it an existential threat is just alarmist—and anyway phasing out coal, oil, and gas would cost us too much. Keywords: climate; doom; facts; gloom; literacy

• Intergenerational Healing within Waterscapes:: The Spiritual Connection between Girls and Water in the Films Estiu 1993 and Whale Rider by Rodriguez, Milena Renee (2024) - Close-up shots invite the audience to appreciate Frida’s perspective, Water sounds are raw and spotlighted, and the absence of sound effects or background music signifies the director’s intention for the audience to feel immersed in the vivid environment together with Frida, like when Frida is in awe by the approaching storm (Figure 2). Furthermore, Indigenous notions of healing have been stigmatized and invalidated by colonial policies such as the prohibition and criminalization of Indigenous spiritual practices (Avalos Cisneros, 2014). Keywords: figure; film; frida; healing; pai; water; whale
• The Black Snake: Powerful Imagery in We Are Water Protectors by Hagen, Sietse (2024) - In an interview with Pritchard, Lindstrom says that her goal for this book is “a call to action” for children to “become Water Protectors and effect the well-being of the planet” (Pritchard, 2020). Indigenous children regularly face systemic oppression and intergenerational traumas. Keywords: book; lindstrom; protectors; snake; water
• We are Water Warriors:: Children Perform Chicago Global Water Dances by Woodard, Rebecca; Batres Spezza, Stephanie; Varelas, Maria; Diaz, Amanda; Dougherty, Bridget; Rosario, Maria; Soto, Gustavo; Rodriguez, Alex Benito; Phillips, Nathan; Tsachor, Rachelle; Kotler, Rebecca; Rock, Ronan (2024) - The third-grade bilingual class and fifth grade classes performed their dances in local parks with small bodies of water to highlight the impact of local water issues, such as pollution, and the importance of clean water. Connect to local water issues and sites. Keywords: chicago; children; dances; science; water
• Water Protection:: An Inquiry Unit with Pre-service English Language Arts Teachers by Kristine M. Schutz; Woodard, Rebecca (2024) - In the second session, we learned about informational texts (e.g., analyzing informational text structures and children’s informational writing, identifying the topic vs. main idea of an informational text about a contemporary water issue, etc.). By engaging in a class novel study, explorations of informational texts, and group text-based inquiry, PSTs acquire knowledge about issues and solutions related to water protection and the ways in which social structures of power influence access to safe water. Keywords: class; climate; newsela; teachers; text; unit; water
• Drawing Our Water Stories by Ariens, Melanie; Nordstrom, Rhonda (2024) - Climate Literacy in Education Volume 2, Issue 2 (Special Issue) 15 Drawing Our Water Stories Melanie Ariens, Milwaukee Water Commons, Milwaukee, WI, USA Rhonda Nordstrom, Milwaukee Water Commons, Milwaukee, WI, USA Abstract • Water belongs to no one and cannot be owned. Keywords: stories; water
• “We are all in this together”:: Critiquing the Issue of Water Equity through a Lens of Intersectional Environmentalism by Connors, Sean P. (2024) - To conclude, I examine the implications for educators of inviting young people to apply a lens of intersectional environmentalism to investigate water equity issues and recommend two works of literature for young people they can use to do so. Keywords water equity, intersectional environmentalism, social justice, environmental justice Connors ú “All in This Together” 80 In Eliot Schrefer’s (2012) young adult novel Endangered, the protagonist, a biracial, Congolese American teenage girl named Sophie, summarizes her conservationist mother’s philosophy as follows: “The way we treat animals goes hand in hand with the way we treat people'' (p. 51). Keywords: environmentalism; equity; justice; nation; navajo; people; water
• Shadows of Progress:: Hydrofeminism and Environmental Injustice in Aravind Adiga’s The White Tiger by Rabbani, Golam (2025) - In hydrofeminist terms, polluted water does not merely flow around the body; it infiltrates and transforms it, rendering women’s bodies literal sites of environmental violence. However, focusing on the rivers: Ganga and Yamuna, the polluted city and rural spaces, and the silent suffering of female characters like Balram’s mother, Kusum, and Pinky Madam, this paper argues how water becomes a medium for expressing structural inequality. Keywords: adiga; balram; climate; novel; water

• Climate Change Denialism: Critical Analysis of Arguments in Confrontation with Climate Science by Ramos, Ricardo; Rodrigues, Maria José; Rodrigues , Isilda (2024) - Ramos, Rodrigues, & Rodrigues ú Climate Change Denialism 30 Climate Change Denialism: Critical Analysis of Arguments in Confrontation with Climate Science Ricardo Ramos, Research Centre in Basic Education (CIEB), Instituto Politécnico de Bragança, Portugal Maria José Rodrigues, Research Centre in Basic Education (CIEB), Instituto Politécnico de Bragança, Portugal Isilda Rodrigues, Education and Psychology Department, University of Trás-os-Montes and Alto Douro, Vila Real, Portugal Abstract Climate denialism is a spectrum spanning outright denial and degrees of skepticism about the reality of climate change. Keywords Climate change, climate literacy, education, climate change denialism Climate deniers and the real science Scientists overwhelmingly agree that climate change exists and is caused by anthropogenic phenomena (Lynas et al., 2021). Keywords: change; climate; denialism; ice; nasa; rodrigues; sea
• After the Flood: Environmental Activism, Agency and Action in Sarah Guillory’s Nowhere Better than Here by Screech, Ben (2024) - Another word for Jillian’s empowerment is eco-citizenship and Nowhere Better Than Here casts Jilian as representing a number of key eco-citizenship values, Climate Literacy in Education Volume 2, Issue 1 (Fall 2024) 65 behaviors and traits that young people who wish to act as effective actors in the fight against climate change must possess. Jillian demonstrates that young people have the ability to spearhead campaigns and to be role-models not just for other young people, but for adults too, in tackling climate change. Keywords: change; climate; jillian; novel

• “The Next Right Thing”: Frozen 2 and Youth-Led Activism by Midkiff, Emily; Austin, Sara (2023) - However, Frozen 2 does not quite meet the https://www.climatelit.org/topic/ecopedagogy/ https://yparhub.berkeley.edu/home https://www.climatelit.org/topic/activism/ https://www.climatelit.org/literature/frozen/ https://www.climatelit.org/literature/frozen-2/ https://www.climatelit.org/literature/frozen-2/ https://www.climatelit.org/literature/youth-activism-marine-conservation-and-ecofeminism/ https://muse.jhu.edu/article/819552/summary https://muse.jhu.edu/article/819552/summary https://muse.jhu.edu/article/819552/summary https://muse.jhu.edu/article/819552/summary https://muse.jhu.edu/article/819552/summary https://muse.jhu.edu/article/819552/summary https://muse.jhu.edu/article/819552/summary https://muse.jhu.edu/article/819552/summary https://www.climatelit.org/literature/frozen/ https://www.climatelit.org/literature/frozen-2/ https://www.climatelit.org/literature/youth-activism-marine-conservation-and-ecofeminism/ https://www.climatelit.org/topic/ecopedagogy/ Climate Literacy in Education, Volume 1, Issue 1 (Spring 2023) 45 other two criteria. “The Disneyfication of climate crisis: Negotiating responsibility and climate action in Frozen, Moana, and Frozen 2.” Keywords: action; children; climate; https://muse.jhu.edu/article/819552/summary; keywords; nature
• Andri Magnason’s The Story of the Blue Planet: Towards Ecotopia by Nathanael, Tanja (2023) - Although Goodday seems to give the children only what they desire, the wild children enthusiastically embrace anything he offers, sadly at the expense of other children and beings on the Blue Planet. When it turns out that he wants “to be a king” (p. 121), Hulda and other children grant Goodday’s wish, observing that a king in a castle is “like a monkey in a cage” (p. 124). Keywords: children; goodday; magnason; planet
• Sven Nordqvist’s Pettson and Findus Series and Children’s Education: Ecocritical Dialogues in Preschool by Axelsson, Marcus; Lindgren, Charlotte (2024) - Nature as a Resource The often-recurring depictions of Pettson and Findus’ use of nature as a resource are apt incentives to embark on ecocritical dialogues with children. The Depiction of Nature Another opportunity for ecological dialogues arises from the fact that Nordqvist’s depiction of nature is not always mimetically accurate. Keywords: books; children; findus; nature; nordqvist; pettson
• Social Justice, Human Rights, and Environmental Crisis in Álvaro Colomer's Ahora llega el silencio (2019) by De Sena, Antonella (2024) - A Pedagogical Perspective Ahora llega el silencio by Álvaro Colomer can be useful to discuss climate literacy in young adult literature, as it deals with issues related to ecology, nature, and the ecosystemic consequences of human actions. Ever since Rousseau positioned children as having a natural inclination towards nature, various authors have noted a longstanding sensitivity to nature in children's literature (Curry, 2013; Harrison, 2019; Young, 2018). Keywords: children; environmental; justice; rights; social
• Play-ifying Shaun Tan’s Tales from the Inner City: : Facilitating Elementary-aged Children’s Understanding of and Emotional Interaction with Tan’s Stories by Puczyńska, Magdalena; Żoczek, Urszula (2025) - Keywords multisensory arts and crafts, ecological community, animal welfare, empathy Puczyńska & Żoczek ú Play-ifying Tales from the Inner City 78 Play-based learning is a technique held in high regard by many experts in the field of education for its capability to create strong and lasting connections in the developing brains of children. Building on research highlighting the cognitive and emotional benefits of interactive, multisensory activities for children, we propose two creative classroom activities connected to Tan’s stories “Crocodiles” and “Butterflies.” Keywords: animal; children; crocodiles; environment; wonder

• Playing in a Patch of Dirt: Eleven Picture Books and a Plug for Nearby Nature by Jennerjohn, Anna (2023) - Learning to appreciate nearby nature, as suggested by Emma Marris in her Ted Talk “Nature is Everywhere,” helps us expand our definition of nature to encompass all its aspects. Keywords nearby nature, nature play, nature, picturebooks, early childhood climate literacy Acknowledgements This blog was originally posted on the Free Forest School website as Playing in a Patch of Dirt. Keywords: climate; dirt; keywords; kids; nature; patch
• A Stone's Throw and Ten Paces: or, Mr. Warbler's Succinct and Useful Field Guide to Flora and Fauna of the Northern Forest by Ambrosi, Emma (2023) - To avoid aggravating his headache, Mr. Warbler charts a roundabout path home, along the edge of downtown. At home, in front of the fire, Mr. Warbler is overcome by a deluge of thoughts. Keywords: nature; warbler

• Beyond the Barnyard: Boardbooks and Other Big Lies We Tell about Industrial Farming by Kleese, Nick (2023) - Instead of purchasing one of the hundreds of barnyard friends boardbooks, adults could choose boardbooks that depict local agriculture that infants could experience firsthand. Barnyard friends boardbooks are, for many infants, among the first encounters they will have with depictions of farmed animals. Keywords: abstract; agriculture; barnyard; boardbooks; climate; friends; keywords
• Acknowledgements by none (2023) - Editorial Collective About CLE Acknowledgements Volume 1, Issue 1, Spring 2023 Table of Contents Introduction: Climate Literacy as Resistance, Hope, and Activism Climate Change and Critical Literacy 11th Grade Language and Literature Climate Mini-Unit Abstract Keywords Overview Narrative Framing At a Glance Going Forward The Science Behind the Stories: A Research-Based Transdisciplinary Approach to Climate Literacy Abstract Keywords A Pedagogical Model for Exploring the Science Behind the Stories Real-World Performance Task Design Read the Narrative Explore the Science Reflect on Perspectives Analyze Contexts Examine Data Evaluate Solutions Collaborate to Problem-Solve Create and Communicate Demonstrate Learning Interested in Piloting a Climate Literacy Task? Taylor Goetsch, winner of the Center for Climate Literacy’s inaugural Arts for the Planet Visual Media Award, provided the cover illustration. Keywords: climate; keywords

• The HOPE Framework: A Literacy Strategy for Identifying Hope in Narratives as a Response to Young People’s Eco-grief by Redmond, Colleen (2024) - Such hope must include action-based strategies that embrace “a committed and active struggle” (Duncan-Andrade, 2009, p. 185). Redmond ú HOPE Framework 14 The HOPE Framework: A Literacy Strategy for Identifying Hope in Narratives as a Response to Young People’s Eco-grief Colleen B. Redmond, University of Minnesota-Twin Cities, United States Keywords: action; climate; eco; framework; grief; hope

• “Playing your part”: An Interview with Sarah Guillory by Screech, Ben (2024) - Adults are doing a lot of things to mitigate the effects of climate change, which young people should recognise. Climate change is a “wicked problem,” and your writing reflects this in a way that is neither hopeless seeming nor lacking in cognizance of the overall gravity of the situation. Keywords: book; climate; people
• Black Lives Matter in the Climate Conversation by none (2025) - As we dug into the article in a Socratic seminar, I posed the question: “Whose lives in the room were affected directly daily by climate change? Additionally, students agreed that the actions that would help those most affected are the best decisions for all of us too: “Well, if people had listened to the demands of the people at the indigenous climate summit, then the indigenous people who aren’t able to farm or fish anymore or live on their islands, we’d help them a lot and stop climate change. Keywords: climate; people

• My Friend, The Lake by Randazzo, Christina (2024) - For this project, I have built from my previous research and personal narratives about Lake Erie—her importance, impact, and the problems that face her today (specifically toxic algae blooms)—and put them into a picturebook titled My Friend, The Lake, for early childhood readers. The book is self-published Randazzo ú My Friend, The Lake 98 and acts as a piece of ecologically-conscious media for children to read, engage with, and form an awareness of problems facing the Earth—specifically, Lake Erie. Keywords: book; erie; lake

• Orphans of the Earth: Climate Refugees in Young Adult Science Fiction by Feldman, Daniel; Park, Dong Yeol; Oh, Hunseok (2025) - Climate refugees — those displaced by climate disasters or gradual ecological degradation — are likely to play a significant role in global migration patterns as climate impacts intensify. In contemporary young adult (YA) fiction, climate refugees take on the archetypal role of the orphan, a destabilizing figure that disrupts social structures. Keywords: climate; crisis; marrow; migration; orphan; refugees; war

• Humanity’s Reliance on the More-Than-Human in Shaun Tan’s Tales from the Inner City by Coltman, Julia (2023) - Coltman ú Humanity’s Reliance 70 Humanity’s Reliance on the More- Than-Human in Shaun Tan’s Tales from the Inner City Julia Coltman, Vancouver Island University, Vancouver, BC, Canada Abstract Various aspects of human life—including art, media, and culture—are becoming increasingly informed by the climate and environmental crises. This understanding, an https://www.climatelit.org/topic/climate-literacy https://www.climatelit.org/topic/terminology/anthropocentrism/ https://www.climatelit.org/topic/climate-emotions/empathy/ https://www.climatelit.org/topic/terminology/ecocentrism/ https://www.climatelit.org/topic/non-human-personhood/ Climate Literacy in Education, Volume 1, Issue 2 (Winter 2023) 71 individual’s ability to critically consider both the impact that the climate crisis has on human wellness and the consequences that the demands of human life have on our environment, is a key component of “climate literacy,” especially in the domains of Earth Care and Kinship Care. Keywords: climate; human; tales; tan
• Lessons about Animal-Human Relations:: Shaun Tan’s Tales from the Inner City in Education about the Climate Crisis and Animal Welfare by Deszcz-Tryhubczak, Justyna (2025) - This collection of 25 stories in words and images that explore relationships between humans and animals in urban environments and beyond can be Climate Literacy in Education, Volume 3, Issue 3 (Winter 2025) 73 seen as encouraging various speculative engagements with animal welfare. In our readings of Tan’s animals, we also relied on Matthew Stewart and Kate Cole’s conceptual map of the social construction of “other” animals (2014, p. 21), which generates a framework for understanding how humans categorize and relate to non-human animals according to the cultural, ethical, and functional dimensions of these interactions. Keywords: animal; biodiversity; climate; human; tales; tan; welfare

• Rethinking English Language Teaching for the More-Than-Human World by Fundalinski, Jessica (2025) - This approach aligns with Micalay- Fundalinskiú Rethinking English Language Teaching 72 Hurtado and Poole (2022), who offer an ecolinguistics-informed critical language awareness approach (eco-CLA) in English language classrooms. This seemingly minor event reveals deeper implications about how language shapes our relationships with the more-than-human world, reinforcing settler-colonial ideologies. Keywords: bird; elt; english; language; teaching; world

• Critical Dialogue: Climate Literacy in Context by Werthwine, Kate; Panos, Alex (2023) - https://pen.org/for-educational-gag-orders-the-vagueness-is- the-point/ http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/dsp01f4752k89d https://pen.org/for-educational-gag-orders-the-vagueness-is-the-point/ https://pen.org/for-educational-gag-orders-the-vagueness-is-the-point/ Editorial Collective About CLE Acknowledgements Volume 1, Issue 1, Spring 2023 Table of Contents Introduction: Climate Literacy as Resistance, Hope, and Activism Climate Change and Critical Literacy 11th Grade Language and Literature Climate Mini-Unit Abstract Keywords Overview Narrative Framing At a Glance Going Forward The Science Behind the Stories: A Research-Based Transdisciplinary Approach to Climate Literacy Abstract Keywords A Pedagogical Model for Exploring the Science Behind the Stories Real-World Performance Task Design Read the Narrative Explore the Science Reflect on Perspectives Analyze Contexts Examine Data Evaluate Solutions Collaborate to Problem-Solve Create and Communicate Demonstrate Learning Interested in Piloting a Climate Literacy Task? Seeing Through Water: The Impact of Our Decisions Abstract Keywords Overview Narrative Framing At a Glance Going Forward References Playing in a Patch of Dirt: Eleven Picturebooks and a Plug for Nearby Nature Werthwine & Panos Critical Dialogue 32 Critical Dialogue: Climate Literacy in Context Kate Werthwine, Pasco County Schools, Florida, USA Alexandra Panos, University of South Florida, St. Petersburg, FL, USA Abstract Keywords: books; climate; stories

• Sacred Relatives:: Learning About Interconnectedness Within the Local Watershed by Robinson, Julie; Smart, Kathy ; Luecke, Danny (2025) - In the module, teachers engage as learners in place-based, outdoor activities and learn how to integrate the understanding of Sacred Relatives into their own classroom instruction and grade-level curriculum, with a focus on the local Red River watershed. By investigating watersheds, teachers and students can experience hands-on learning that is culturally and ecologically restorative, aligning with Sacred Relatives. Keywords: dakota; learning; place; relatives; teachers

• “Moonfish” from Tales from The Inner City and the Problem of Pain in Fish by Dudek, Jan (2025) - The story and its reading incorporating the perspective of fish pain could be used to conduct a lesson promoting fish welfare. These findings point strongly towards fish being capable of pain, and some researchers are of the opinion that it would be increasingly difficult to argue against fish pain (Sneddon et al., 2018, qtd. Keywords: fish; pain; story

• Friends or Tools? : The Duality of Horses in Shaun Tan’s Tales from the Inner City by Obodyńska, Martyna (2025) - Tan’s story does not provide the full answer how it influences the girl’s future life, apart from a quote from the last paragraph: “Later you’ll come to love horses with a depth you can’t explain and many horses will love you back” (ibid) The Duality of Horses in Shaun Tan’s Tales from the Inner City Martyna Obodyńska, University of Wrocław, Wrocław, Poland Keywords: animals; horses; tan

• Publication Information by none (2023) - Contact: About CLE Climate Literacy in Education (CLE) is an open- access, double-blind, peer reviewed journal sponsored by the Center for Climate Literacy at the University of Minnesota and published through University of Minnesota Libraries. https://climateliteracy.umn.edu/ https://climateliteracy.umn.edu/ https://pubs.lib.umn.edu/index.php/clj/about/submissions Editorial Collective About CLE Acknowledgements Volume 1, Issue 1, Spring 2023 Table of Contents Introduction: Climate Literacy as Resistance, Hope, and Activism Climate Change and Critical Literacy 11th Grade Language and Literature Climate Mini-Unit Abstract Keywords Overview Narrative Framing At a Glance Going Forward The Science Behind the Stories: A Research-Based Transdisciplinary Approach to Climate Literacy Abstract Keywords A Pedagogical Model for Exploring the Science Behind the Stories Real-World Performance Task Design Read the Narrative Explore the Science Reflect on Perspectives Analyze Contexts Examine Data Evaluate Solutions Collaborate to Problem-Solve Create and Communicate Demonstrate Learning Interested in Piloting a Climate Literacy Task? Seeing Through Water: The Impact of Our Decisions Abstract Keywords Overview Narrative Framing At a Glance Going Forward References Playing in a Patch of Dirt: Eleven Picturebooks and a Plug for Nearby Nature Keywords: editor; minnesota; university

• Finding Possibilities in Oral Histories of Local Environmental Change by none (2025) - It left me to reconsider how, in a rural area like ours, I might teach the climate crisis and climate justice: not through statistical histories but through oral histories. I hope that these stories make the climate crisis more personal and reveal the disproportionate impacts that climate change has within our own community, allowing us to envision climate justice locally before situating it within a global movement. Keywords: climate; school

• Democracy and Kinship in Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind by Kleese, Nick (2024) - Nausicaä is the only surviving child of King Jhil, the Valley’s much beloved but ailing monarch. In fact, Nausicaä seems to be the only one in the Valley capable of doing any complex thought or skilled labor. Keywords: democracy; film; nausicaä; ohm; valley

• Arts for the Planet by Kleese, Nick; Goetsch, Taylor; Gibson, Olivia; Hickmott, Breanna; Olave, Juliana (2023) - Kleese, Goetsch, Gibson, Hickmott, and Olave  Arts for the Planet 50 Arts for the Planet Nick Kleese, Univeristy of Minnesota-Twin Cities, MN, USA Taylor Goetsch, Minnepolis College of Art and Design, MN, USA Olivia Gibson, Minnepolis College of Art and Design, MN, USA Breanna Hickmott, Minnepolis College of Art and Design, MN, USA Juliana Olave, Minnepolis College of Art and Design, MN, USA Artist Statement Young artists currently enrolled at the Minneapolis College of Art and Design were invited to submit visual media that explored some tenant of climate literacy: values, attitudes, and behavioral change necessary to safeguard the Earth’s integrity in the present and for future generations. Keywords: art

• The Wild Idea of Riding a Bike by Klassen, Jonathan (2025) - These stories demonstrate ways in which bicycles can help facilitate an approach to living that is good for both people and the environment. The picturebooks introduced in this article demonstrate many convivial features of bicycles including their benefits for community building, personal empowerment, and defying social norms. Keywords: bicycle; bike; conviviality; cycling; duck; picturebooks; tools

• Planet Protectors by none (2025) - I've been doing a lot of research and found that scientists also track greenhouse gasses using satellites and machines. She was talking about how climate scientists are studying how rising temperatures can affect ice melting, sea levels, wildfires, droughts and extreme storms. Keywords: greenhouse

• Bees Matter by none (2025) - Student art depicting Super Bee https://drive.google.com/file/d/1VAcEpWtwO4kQ7r_28BoxxqjztSrrx_C9/view?usp=sharing https://drive.google.com/file/d/1qXWVLhgRXvRZ3OPRe_34upWRb5eb0pcq/view?usp=sharing Together, we started to research bees. Keywords: bees

• The Pope and I by none (2025) - Yet when Cardinal Robert Prevost became Pope Leo XIII, I was exhilarated, inspired, and hopeful. With these activities my goal is to set the stage for my students to take action as they develop a sense of responsibility and deep feelings of empathy toward others—ones that extend beyond their immediate surroundings and ones that encompass all beings—just as Pope Leo XIII has done. Keywords: climate; pope

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