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Empowering Learners in a Warming World: A Climate Change Inquiry Guide for Secondary Educators Year of publication: 2020 Author: Ellen Field | Jennifer Stevens | Karen Acton Corporate author: Learning for a Sustainable Future (LSF) The purpose of this guide is to present opportunities to evolve studentsโ understanding of the climate and climate change, assess the risks and opportunities to mitigate and adapt to the changing climate, unpack ethical dimensions, and honour emotions that are part of the process of coming to understand the complexity and urgency of the issue.Transformative teaching strategies used throughout this guide are important to tackling complex problems like climate change. These strategies often begin with the understanding and experiences that students bring with them. Educators, who themselves are grappling with climate change issues, take the role of facilitators and co-learners as the class works together to learn, critically reflect, and take action.Most importantly, this guide aims to engage students in contributing to solutions in their schools, communities and homes. It aims to connect educators to instructional strategies that allow for studentsโ perspectives and voice, currently available climate change science and research, teacher resources and activities, datasets, and action solutions. 
Canada, Climate Change and Education: Opportunities for Public and Formal Education Year of publication: 2019 Author: Ellen Field | Pamela Schwartzberg | Paul Berger Corporate author: Lakehead University | Learning for a Sustainable Future (LSF) The nationwide study of 3,196 Canadians entitled, Canada, Climate Change and Education: Opportunities for Public and Formal Education, establishes benchmarks of Canadiansโ knowledge and understanding of climate change, their perspectives on the importance of climate change and its risks, and views on the role of schools and climate change education. It also provides the first comprehensive snapshot of climate change educational practice in Canada. The results are presented both nationally and from provincial/regional jurisdictions.