Future Climate Foundations

Empowering Students with Climate Knowledge, Resilience, and Agency

Future Climate Foundations is our core in-classroom program designed to help teens understand climate change not just as a scientific challenge, but as a deeply human story they can help shape.

We offer flexible approaches for delivering climate education—whether through direct instruction, co-teaching with trained specialists, or providing turnkey lesson plans—so schools and teachers can choose the model that works best for them. Our goal is to build teacher capacity and student confidence simultaneously.

    • Science: Explore the realities of a warming planet and the interconnected systems driving it.

    • Society: Understand how climate change intersects with justice, policy, and power.

    • Self: Build emotional resilience, process climate-related feelings, and find your voice as a climate leader.

    Students engage in interactive lessons, hands-on activities, and open conversations that connect global climate issues to local realities and personal experiences.

    • For Students: Builds climate literacy, critical thinking, and emotional strength—turning anxiety into action.

    • For Teachers & Schools: Flexible delivery—integrated into science, social studies, SEL, advisory, or extracurricular programs—while aligning with Oregon standards.

    • For Funders: Directly reaches underserved and frontline youth, bridging access gaps in climate education.

  • We know every school has different schedules, resources, and needs—so we designed the Future Climate Foundations program to be adaptable. Whether you need direct support in the classroom or want to integrate climate lessons into your existing curriculum, we’ll work with you to make it seamless.

    Our delivery options include:

    • Specialist-in-the-Classroom: We send a trained climate education specialist to your school to lead engaging, interactive sessions with students.

    • Flexible Modules for Teacher Delivery: We provide ready-to-use, standards-aligned modules that teachers can deliver on their own—complete with activities, discussion prompts, and assessment tools.

    • Co-Designed Lesson Plans: We collaborate with you to adapt our curriculum to your class objectives, student interests, and local context.

    Why this works:

    • Meets schools where they are—whether you have time for a single session or a multi-week series

    • Supports teacher capacity while ensuring students receive current, research-based climate education

    • Allows for deep customization so lessons are relevant to your students’ communities and lived experiences