Cool It! Climate Leadership Training

Elementary program (grades 4-7)

Our elementary program works with grade 4-7 students and consists of an interactive, hour-long workshop and a four-week, take-home climate challenge.

One of our experienced Environmental Educators joins each class to facilitate a 60-minute workshop (delivered virtually via video conferencing technology or in-person). The workshop is fun, informative and interactive. It covers the basic science of climate change, its key causes, impacts and solutions that exist. It also covers actions students can take at home in their communities to lessen their own carbon emissions and inspire others to do the same.

Our four-week, take-home climate challenge consists of 25 unique climate and environmental actions that encourage students to work with their families to reduce their carbon footprint at home while learning more about climate change and current local and provincial responses. Top students in each class will receive prizes for their efforts. We also provide lots of supporting materials, tools and information for every action in our challenge allowing it to be completed individually, with support from other family-members, or in collaboration with the whole class.

High school program (grades 8-12, all disciplines)

Our high school program works with grade 8-12 students of all disciples and consists of a series of interactive, hour-long workshops and a four-week, online climate challenge using our web platform: climatecool.org

Over a 4-6 week time period, classes undertake two ~60-minute workshop modules (delivered virtually via video conferencing technology or in-person). The workshops cover the science of climate change as well as covering more advanced topics such as climate justice, supply chains and systems-analysis.

Module One focuses on the future impacts of the climate crisis in British Columbia; and local government, Indigenous and student responses. 

Module Two focuses on the systemic life cycles of our consumption and production and the greenhouse gas emissions embedded in these systems. We also explore how to make informed choices that lessen the impact on the climate, as well as how we might engage and participate in our local communities to spread the impact.

Our online, four-week climate challenge encourages students to learn about actions that can be taken at home to reduce their carbon impact. It also encourages the investigation and research of collective mitigation and adaptation strategies at local, provincial and national levels.