Wisconsin Climate Education Hub

This hub was created to provide educators with quick, easy access to teacher approved and scientist reviewed resources to support the state’s requirement for environmental education.



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Teaching Resources


Search a database of 2000+ climate resources by subject, grade level, and Wisconsin Academic Standards.

Exemplar Lesson Plans


Browse exemplar climate change lesson plans created by teachers, for teachers for all subjects and grade levels

News for Students


Explore current articles about climate change and sustainability brought to you by The Juice.  


Climate Teaching Resources

Browse Wisconsin standards-aligned climate teaching resources curated from a variety of organizations and providers.

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Climate Safe Neighborhoods

This interactive map of Milwaukee County, Wisconsin features demographic and environmental data.


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Reducing Food Waste at Home

This article provides several ideas and strategies for curbing food waste at the household level.

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Living Schoolyard Activity Guide

This comprehensive activity guide contains over 100 activities that encourage the use of school grounds for place-based learning.

Empowering Educators With Quality Resources

Explore quick and easy access to high-quality instructional materials that support environmental education requirements. Seamlessly integrate climate change lesson plans into your existing curriculum. Start empowering minds today!

Climate Wisconsin

These stories are produced to support teaching and learning about climate change in Wisconsin.  Our goal is to make them accessible in a variety of formats. Stories are available with closed captioning on PBS LearningMedia, a free digital media service for educational use. If you would like to use resources from Climate Wisconsin in a classroom, nature center, community meeting, or other educational context, please contact us.
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Wisconsin Initiative on Climate Change Impacts

The Wisconsin Initiative on Climate Change Impacts (WICCI) is a statewide collaboration of scientists and stakeholders formed as a partnership between UW-Madison’s Nelson Institute for Environmental Studies and the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources.

Hope for the Future


In addition to equipping our youth with climate change knowledge, we need to empower our students towards climate action in order to build hope for our planet’s future. The youth are our agents of change. Here are resources and examples so that you and your students can focus on solutions and hope.





Climate Action in the Classroom


Royal Oaks Elementary School students participated in the Renew Our Schools Energy Competition in Spring 2022. The goal of the Renew Our Schools Energy competition is to reduce electricity use and reduce carbon dioxide emissions through making changes to be more energy efficient. Royal Oaks Elementary School went on to win the competition earning money to implement even more changes to their school. Learn more about the Renew Our Schools conservation competition.


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Delivering Hope Outside the Classroom

This yearly climate conference is organized by youth for youth, with the theme of "Building a Sustainable Future". It inspires and empowers youth to take climate action by networking with their peers at other schools, learning about actions other youth are taking, and meeting organizations and adult allies who can help and support them.


The conference will be held at Madison College on Saturday, Nov. 16, from 10 am. to 4 pm. Sponsors are supporting the conference, so it's free, including food. The conference is open to all students from Grade 8 through college, from anywhere around the state. Student groups are invited to present &/or exhibit about their past or future climate actions at the conference, and those who do so will receive a $100 thank you gift.


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Play Cool Choices


Cool Choices in Green & Healthy Schools seeks to make sustainable choices the norm by making them fun, social and easy through an online game that inspires and assist school communities to take actions to reduce their greenhouse gas emissions. This six-week game can be implemented at the classroom level, multiple classrooms within a school, or with teams from the same school or district. This game is available to all Wisconsin schools free of charge.

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