What reading material can be used to explain climate change to children?

Question

It will be useful to have a collection of online reading material that helps children to understand the subject of climate change.

Answer 1

Resources are free to access & download. These can be used for classroom teaching as well as at home by parents.

See the complete list of climate change resources for children at “What Resources Can Be Used to Explain Climate Change to Children?” (OneSharedEarth, 2019).

Topic	Age	Resources	Info	Organisation	Notes
Easy answers to hard questions	6-8	Webpage	Questions that children may have and easy to understand answers	Orsted, 2018
What's climate change? And what can I do?		Webpage, 2 online handouts	Background and what kids can do	Climate Reality Project, 2019
Reducing our carbon footprint		Online handout	Simple actions to reduce the carbon footprint	Wicked Weather Watch
Climate Explainer		Online handout	Explains how climate change is affecting every part of the world	WWF
Frequently Asked Climate Questions		Webpage	Questions from high school students and answers	Our Climate Our Future, 2018	Email registration required
Climate Kids	9-12	Collection of webpages	Covers topics of weather, climate, atmosphere, water, energy, plants, animals on Earth through the eyes of the NASA missions	NASA Climate Kids, 2019
What's Really Warming the World?	11+	Webpage	Graphical representation of different factors contributing to global warming from 1880	Bloomberg Business, 2019
Alliance for Climate Education reports		Collection of webpages, and associated worksheets	Reports on black carbon, coal cleanup, El Nino, ocean heating, dating ice cores and getting past temperature, making of fossil fuels, ocean fertilization, old climate, methane hydrate, 350ppm, global weirding	Our Climate Our Future, 2019	Email registration required
Jargon Buster		Webpage	List of useful words related to climate change and their meaning	Wicked Weather Watch, 2016
Our Changing Climate	11-18	Online book, videos, photographs	How climate change affects the atmosphere, hydrosphere, biosphere and our planet	Earth Vision Institute, 2019