Teaching Climate Across the Curriculum
Bring climate into what you teach. Get ready-to-use lessons, plan your approach, and connect with educators across Oklahoma!
Teaching Climate Across the Curriculum: Tools and Strategies for K–12 Educators
July 31, 2026
Norman, Oklahoma
Bring real-world science into every subject you teach with a professional learning experience designed around what works in your classroom. Teaching Climate Across the Curriculum is a one-day, hands-on workshop that helps you confidently integrate climate concepts into the lessons you already teach—whether that’s science, social studies, English language arts, or the arts. You’ll explore practical, ready-to-use resources and a flexible framework that fits your style, your schedule, and your students—so you can build on what you’re already doing rather than starting over.
Throughout the day, you’ll engage in interactive lessons, collaborative discussions, and guided planning time focused on helping you take action. You’ll build your understanding of climate science using an Earth systems approach, then immediately apply it through classroom-ready activities from Project WET and EcoRise. You’ll also explore how climate connects to local water systems, community planning, and everyday decision-making—giving you relevant, place-based examples you can bring directly to your students. Dedicated planning time ensures you leave not just inspired, but prepared—with a clear plan for what you’ll teach, when you’ll teach it, and how it fits into your existing curriculum.
During this workshop, you will:
- Strengthen your understanding of climate science in ways you can translate directly to students
- Use ready-to-teach lessons that fit naturally into your current instruction
- Explore strategies for connecting climate concepts across subject areas
- Learn how these ideas can be adapted for different grade levels (K–12)
- Create a personalized plan for bringing new lessons into your classroom
- Collaborate with other educators and exchange ideas you can continue to build on
You’ll leave with more than materials—you’ll leave with confidence in your ability to make these topics meaningful and manageable for your students. The resources you take with you, including Project WET: Water and People and the EcoRise Climate Resilience Curriculum, are designed for flexibility and real classroom use, helping you connect learning to real-world systems and student experiences.
Whether you teach elementary, middle school, high school, or in an informal setting, this workshop gives you practical tools you can use right away—along with the time and space to make them your own. You already know your students and your content. This experience helps you expand that expertise with strategies and support that make your teaching even more relevant, connected, and impactful.
Workshop Details
- Date: July 31, 2026 8:30am to 4:30pm
- Location: Norman, Oklahoma
- Cost: $20.00, scholarships available
- Audience: K–12 formal and informal educators
- Format: Hands-on, classroom-based with collaborative planning
- Focus: Practical strategies and ready-to-use resources for integrating climate concepts across subjects
Leave with a plan you created, tools you trust, and a clear path for bringing climate concepts into your classroom in ways that work for you and your students.
- Tony Pascall, Anthony.Pascall@ag.ok.gov, (405)317-8322, Oklahoma Project Learning Tree/OKAEE Board President
- Jack Hilgert, jack.hilgert@conservation.ok.gov, (405) 613-3835, Oklahoma Project WET and Project WILD
- T Larson, tmf@ecorise.org, Program Manager, EcoRise
ABOUT THE CURRICULUM:
Project WET stands for Water Education Today. Water is a part of everything we are, everything we eat, and everything we use. Yet most people do not even know where their water comes from, let alone their larger water footprint. Project WET provides educators, natural resource professionals, and more real-world, relevant, and hands-on lessons, that create an interdisciplinary learning environment focused on the most essential aspect of life—water.
EcoRise The Introduction to Climate Resilience lessons create a foundation for elementary, middle, and high school students’ understanding of climate resilience and climate justice, against the backdrop of climate change. Each lesson activates students’ curiosity, compassion, prior knowledge, and critical thinking to explore how people and groups in their own community and around the world are affected by climate change and how they are addressing climate change through just and resilient collective action. In the lessons for elementary grades, students consider the ways in which people are impacted differently by weather emergencies and how we can help each other when weather emergencies occur. The middle- and high-school lessons help students consider how community climate resilience can be fostered and built up. Activities in these lessons include critically analyzing case studies on climate resilience around the U.S., role-playing a climate resilience town hall meeting, and planning collective action that contributes to addressing climate vulnerabilities and injustices in their school and wider community. All sessions can be taught independently or sequentially and can be adapted to fit the needs and contexts of individual classrooms. Teachers are encouraged to consider the unique climate challenges and community strengths that exist in their local context and to incorporate these into the lessons, to help students connect what they are learning to their everyday lives.