How to talk to kids about climate change

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  8 Ways To Teach Climate Change In Almost Any Classroom

  NPR - Anya Kamenetz

  NPR/Ipsos conducted a national poll recently and found that more than 8 in 10 teachers — and a similar majority of parents — support teaching kids about climate change. But in reality, it's not always happening: Fewer than half of K-12 teachers told us that they talk about climate change with their …

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  A kid's guide to climate change (plus a printable comic)

  NPR - Lauren Sommer , Malaka Gharib

  Are you a kid — or do you know a kid — who is learning about climate change? It can be hard to know where to start. So we made a guide about how it's changing the planet and how to deal with the big feelings you might have when you hear about it. Click here to print a paper version of this comic at …

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  Climate change is here. These 6 tips can help you talk to kids about it

  NPR - Anya Kamenetz

  Explore Life Kit This story is adapted from an episode of Life Kit, NPR's podcast with tools to help you get it together. To listen to this episode, play the audio at the top of the page or subscribe here. For more, sign up for the newsletter and follow @NPRLifeKit on Twitter. I remember once when I …

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  Coping with climate change: Advice for kids — from kids

  NPR - Leila Fadel , Lauren Sommer

  As the climate changes, anxiety among younger people is rising. NPR launches a comic book with advice from and for kids on how to cope. (Story originally aired on Morning Edition on Nov. 27, 2022.) LEILA FADEL, HOST: Today, we're launching a comic book for kids, and it's all about climate change. It …

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  Teaching Middle-Schoolers Climate Change Without Terrifying Them

  NPR - Rowan Moore Gerety

  Bertha Vazquez has taught earth science for more than 25 years. "For many years I covered the basic standard, probably like most people in the country do," she says. Then one day, she says, she decided to throw that all out the window after seeing former Vice President Al Gore speak at the University …

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  Young People Are Anxious About Climate Change And Say Governments Are Failing Them

  NPR - Sharon Pruitt-Young

  How are young people coping with climate change? The answer, according to one study, is not well, and for good reason. For a forthcoming study, researchers with the U.K.'s University of Bath and other schools spoke to 10,000 people in 10 countries, all of whom were between the ages of 16 and 25, to …