Place-based Media and Writing about Climate Change


Stanford University Course: Wild Writing: Earth Systems at Stanford University

 

Paula Welander, Emily Polk receive Excellence in Teaching Awards

 

Climate Storytelling Lesson for the Classroom. Climate Generation

 

Climate Lit: Resources on teaching cli-fi literature

 

Climate Change in Catan? New Board Game Version Forces Players to Consider Pollution

 

Grist: News on climate change.

 

“We Cannot Create What We Cannot Imagine” Helping Students Picture Climate Justice. Rethinking Schools

 

Good Energy: Storytelling about climate change

 

Role-playing Game Helps Colorado Students Plan for Climate Change Hazard. Yale Climate Communications

 

It's Hard to Talk about Climate Change. This Storytelling Project Wants to Make It Easier. Vox

 

Amanda Hagood, Writing the Natural State Place-based Writing Project: Research Report


Our Curriculum Matters: Place-based curriculum activities


Shelli Rottschafer: Power Point: Teaching the Environment Through Writing: Aldo Leopold's Concepts on Conservationism

 

Dear Tomorrow: Letters to the Future: Adults send letters and videos to the children and grandchildren about future climate change effects

 

Lab Lit: Writing Fiction Based on Real Science. New York Times Learning Network

 

Video; Linda Buturian on creating digital stories about climate change

 

Suzie Boss: Geo-Literacy Projects Build Students' Understanding of Our Complex Worlds

 

Literacy Through Photography: FotoFest 2016: For grades 5-8: Activities on use of photography 

 

Narrative Writing: Climate Change and "The Sand Castle": for grade 6

 

KQED: Eco Literacy Resources

 

Beach, R. (2014). Engaging students through place-based education. Ubiquity: The Journal of Literature, Literacy, and the Arts, 1(1), 122-137.

 

Bennon, B. (2013). Paradise lost: Introducing students to climate change through story: Rethinking Schools.

 

Branch, M. (2016). Raising wild: Dispatches from a home in the wilderness. New York: Penguin.

 

Chaplin, G. (2013). Full fathom five: Ocean warming and a father’s legacy. New York: Arcade Publishing.

 

Comber, B. (2016). Literacy, place, and pedagogies of possibility. New York: Routledge.

 

Damico, J. S., & Baildon, M. (2011). Content literacy for the 21st century: Excavation, elevation, and relationalcosmopolitanism in the classroom. Journal of Adolescent & Adult Literacy, 55(3), 232–243.

 

Demarest, A. B. (2015). Place-based curriculum design: Exceeding standards through local investigations. New York: Routledge

 

Dobrin, S. I. (Ed.). (2015). Ecology, writing theory, and new media writing ecology. New York: Routledge.

 

Duane, D. (2015). My dark California dream. The New York Times

 

Eubanks, E. (2015). The troubled rhetoric and communication of climate change: The argumentative situation. New York: Routledge.

 

Gertner, J. (2016). Should the United States Save Tangier Island From Oblivion? It’s the kind of choice that climate change will be forcing over and over. New York Times Magazine

 

Goggin, P. N. (Ed.) (2009). Rhetorics, literacies, and narratives of sustainability. New York: Routledge.

 

Goggin, P. N. (Ed.). (2013). Environmental rhetoric and ecologies of place.  New York: Routledge.

 

Heise, U. K. (2008). Sense of place and sense of planet: The environmental imagination of the global. New York: Oxford University Press

 

Herndl, C. G. (2014). Sustainability: A reader for writers. New York: Oxford University Press.

 

Hothem, T. (2009). Suburban studies and college writing: Applying ecocomposition. Pedagogy, 9(1), 35-59.

 

Jackson, M. (2015). While glaciers slept: Being human in a time of climate change. Brattleboro, VT: Green Writers Press.


Johnson, A. E., &  Wilkinson, K. K. (Eds.). (2020). All we can save: Truth, courage, and solution for the climate crisis. New York: Penguin

 

Jones, O. (2015). “Not promising a landfall …”: An autotopographical account of loss of place, memory and landscape. Environmental Humanities, 6, 1-27.

 

Littrell, M. K., Okochi, C., Gold, A. U. Leckey, E., Tayne, K., ….S. Wise, S. (2019. Exploring students’ engagement with place-based environmental challenges through filmmaking: A case study from the Lens on Climate Change Program. Journal of Geoscience Education 68(1), 80–93. doi:10.1080/10899995.2019.1633510.

 

Mayo, R. (2021). Writing environments: Reimagining English education via eco-composition. Ethical ELA 

 

McCalman, I. (2013). The reef: A passionate history: The Great Barrier Reef from Captain Cook to climate change. Penguin Australia.

 

McCarthy, M. (2016). The moth snowstorm: Nature and joy. New York: New York Review of Books

 

McGraw, S. (2016). Betting the farm on a drought: Stories from the front lines of climate change. Austin: University of Texas Press 

 

Moser, S. C. (2014). Communicating adaptation to climate change: The art and science of public engagement when climate change comes home. Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews: Climate Change, 5(3), 337-358

 

Owens, D. (2001) Composition and Sustainability: Teaching for a Threatened Generation.  Urbana, IL: NCTE.

 

Polleck, J. (2016). Using nonfiction to advocate for change. English Journal, 105(4).

 

Primack, R. B. (2014). Walden warming: Climate change comes to Thoreau's woods. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.  

 

Roessing, L.  (2004). Building a community of stories and writers: Lake Wobegon comes to the classroom. The Quarterly, 26(4).  

 

Russo, L., & Reed, M. (Eds.). (2018). Counter-desecration: A glossary for writing within the Anthropocene. Middletown, CT: Wesleyan University Press.

 

Scheuerman, R., Gritter, K.; Schuster, C. J., &; Fisher, G. (2010). Sharing the fire: Place-based learning with columbia plateau legends. English Journal, 99(5), 47-54

 

Schmidt, G., & Wolfe, J. (2009). Climate change: Picturing the science. New York: W.W. Norton.

 

Shoptaw, J. (2016). Why ecopoetry?. The Poetry Foundation.

 

Tinnell, J. (2011). Scripting just sustainability: Through green listing towards eco-blogging. Environmental Communication, 5(2), 228-242.

 

Vince, G. (2014). Adventures in the Anthropocene: A journey to the heart of the planet we made. Minneapolis: Milkweed.

 

Wallace, D. (2021, September, 14). Can we find a new way to tell the story of climate change? The New Yorker

 

Weisser, C. R. (Ed.). (2014). Sustainability: A reader. Boston: Bedford/St. Martin's

 

Weisser, C. R. (2014). Student website for Sustainability

 

Weisser, C. R., & Dobrin, S. I.  (Eds.) (2001). Ecocomposition: Theoretical and pedagogical Approaches. Albany, NY: SUNY Press.

 

Wibeck, V. (2013). Enhancing learning, communication and public engagement about climate change: Some lessons from recent literature. Environmental Education Research20(3), 387-411.