A practical guide to cultivating expansive understandings of climate change and environmental regeneration in K-12 students through classroom instructional practices and curricula.

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Cover -- Half-title -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Chapter 1. The Leap -- Chapter 2. A Vision for Climate Change Teaching -- Chapter 3. A Primer on Core Climate Change Ideas -- 3.1 The Greenhouse Effect: Where It All Starts -- 3.2 Carbon Cycling: Where It Stays and Where It's Going -- 3.3 No Place Is Too Remote: Our Oceans and Cryosphere -- 3.4 Ecosystems and Why We Care About Biodiversity -- 3.5 Weather Extremes and the Human Niche -- 3.6 Coda -- Chapter 4. Solutions: Helping Students Envision Sustainability and Resilience -- Chapter 5. Dealing with Disinformation and Skepticism -- Chapter 6. It Matters How You Frame the Story -- Chapter 7. How Do We Know That Happened? Reconstructing the Past to Understand the Present -- Chapter 8. Our Possible Future(s): Data Visualizations and Climate Models as Sensemaking Tools -- Chapter 9. Helping Students Show What They Know: Building Models and Explanations -- Chapter 10. Activism and Self-Care for the Long Haul -- Appendix A. Unit Trajectories in a Third- and a Ninth-Grade Classroom -- Appendix B. Climate-Specific Engineering Standards -- Notes -- Acknowledgments -- About the Author -- Index.