The Climate Action Kit lessons are carefully crafted to be meaningful for students, while remaining as low-lift as possible for their educators.

All our lessons:

Align with Pre-Existing Curricular Standards: Climate Action Kit lessons integrate seamlessly into your existing curriculum, aligning with Next Generation Science Standards, CSTA K-12 CS Standards, and Common Core State Standards. By embedding coding and environmental science into these existing frameworks, lessons support the goals you’re already working toward. We hope you’ll find our lessons lighten your workload instead of adding to it—allowing you to focus on guiding and inspiring your students without the need to create new content from scratch.

Screenshot of Forward Education's standard alignment matrix. All NGSS performance expectations are written in rows, while lesson are written as columns. An 'X' at the intersection indicates an alignment.

Promote Student-led Learning: Lessons empower students to take charge of their learning. Through interactive content, inquiry questions, and step-by-step tutorials, students explore concepts, build prototypes, and troubleshoot independently. You don’t need to be a coding or robotics expert to facilitate. This approach fosters critical thinking, resilience, and problem-solving while reducing reliance on teacher-led instruction. Even beginners can confidently navigate projects, building independence for both educators and students.

Elementary students using Microsoft MakeCode's block programming software to build and test a hydroponics kit for learning computer science with the BBC micro:bit