YES! Resources:
Other Resources:
Understanding Climate Change
- Climate Central – Maps, graphics, and easy to read climate data
- Climate Generation – Building climate literacy and action in Minnesota among educators, youth, and the broader public through events, education, and activism
- NOAA Climate Resilience Toolkit – Find information and tools to help you understand and address your climate risks
Climate Change in Minnesota
- Climate Change in Minnesota: 23 signs – Article showing how the state’s climate has changed in recent decades
- Gikinoo’wizhiwe Onji Waaban (Guiding for Tomorrow) or “G-WOW”
- G-WOW Model Presentation – How is Minnesota’s Climate Changing? Investigating Climate Change Using the G-WOW Model
- G-WOW Activity Template – Use this for students’ connection to climate change
- Climate Change Vulnerability Assessment – Created by the Great Lakes Indian Fish and Wildlife Commission to assess climate change impacts on MN plants and animals
- Climate Change Vulnerability of Culturally Important Beings – Fun activity to do with students or adults
Fight Climate Change
- Youth Action Ideas – by Climate Generation
Hands-on Projects:
- Identify your “carbon footprint” with this tool. Then decide with your family one specific action the household will take to reduce climate-changing carbon emissions.
Videos:
- Climate Change 101 with Bill Nye the Science Guy (5 min)
- YES! 2020 Virtual Fall Summit – Climate Change in Minnesota (2 hours 49 min)
- YES! How to Make Sense of Minnesota’s Changing Climate with Dr. Kenny Blumenfeld (67 min)
- YES! Investigating Climate Change with Cathy Techtmann (58 min)
Suggested Books:
- The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History by Elizabeth Kolbert
- The Uninhabitable Earth: Life After Warming by David Wallace-Wells
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No One Is Too Small to Make a Difference by Greta Thunberg
