Take An Expedition In Your Schoolyard

Join the Will Steger Foundation on an Exploration of Minnesota’s Changing Climate

Minnesota’s Changing Climate curriculum project ties Will Steger’s adventures from boyhood to adulthood with engaging content on Minnesota’s natural environment and the impacts of climate change. The curriculum includes lesson plans for grades 3-12, as well as an online classroom with video, audio and interactive content.

• These lesson plans build on the Will Steger Foundation’s original six lesson plans on the basics of global warming.
• The lessons emphasize civic engagement and helps teachers and students understand the critical and complex climate solutions being discussed on the national and international stage.

• Global Warming 101 Lesson Plans for Grades 3–6
• Global Warming 101 Lesson Plans for Grades 6-12
• Global Warming 101 Expedition Supplements
• NEW! Citizen Climate Lesson Plans for Grades 9-12
• Also, What Now? Action Resources and a collection of hands-on activities linked to the Grades 3-12 Lesson Plans.

• The following resources can be used to supplement the existing Will Steger Foundation Curriculum. Resources include links to external sites that contain helpful related information and activities, and clips from the Will Steger Foundation video and audio archives that can be connected with specific lesson plan topics.

• We are all members of the community of Planet Earth. Looking in detail at a specific area, namely the Arctic, can help us appreciate the meaning of community.
• In the Arctic community we see different members with diverse perspectives and ways of knowing all contributing to knowledge and action to slow climate change. The lessons of community learned by studying the Arctic can inspire and empower all of us in our roles as community members on Planet Earth. The focus is on solutions and positive messages of hope and action.

• Driven by a commitment to solutions, the Will Steger Foundation provides information on common global warming topics, giving educators and learners background knowledge to work towards slowing global warming.
• Learn about carbon footprints, global warming myths, and more!

• With a geographic focus on the Arctic, Will Steger Foundation has compiled some basic information about the Polar Regions, from the differences between the regions, to educational content about Antarctica and Greenland and how climate change is affecting the coldest regions of our Planet.

Arctic (North)

Antarctic (South)

The Will Steger Foundation has provided professional development to teachers for five years through annual Summer Institutes. The institutes provide teachers with tools to communicate climate change in the classroom. Past keynote speakers have included Bill McKibben, Dr. James Hansen, Andrew Revkin and Dr. Naomi Oreskes.