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Inner Climate: Understanding and Embracing Our Eco-Emotions

A web series on climate change

Secondary

Description

Inner Climate: Understanding and Embracing Our Eco-Emotions is an excellent resource that helps teachers explore the emotional impacts of climate change with students. Through a four-episode web series, exploring anxiety, empathy, anger and solastalgia, students follow a group of young people as they work to understand and navigate the complex emotions that climate change can provoke. The series emphasizes that eco-anxiety and other climate-related emotions are normal and understandable responses to environmental challenges, and demonstrates how conversation, mutual support, and expert guidance can help young people process these feelings in healthy and constructive ways while building the skills to better navigate their eco-emotions.

Each episode of the series is under ten minutes and brings students into the heart of conversations between Olivia, Liam, Maude, Rami, and Nadia. Through their texts and voice message, brought to life as multimedia collages, students explore how the characters experience and express their climate emotions. Their conversations are further enriched with expert insights and advice.

To extend learning, the resource also provides a companion activity kit with classroom-ready activities that encourage reflection and deepen students’ understanding of eco-emotions and the broader impacts of climate change on individuals and communities.

General Assessment

Strengths

  • The topic is highly relevant and current, connecting climate change to real-world issues
  • The use of a web series with relatable characters makes it engaging
  • The accompanying learning kit provides activities to support the videos and explore emotions linked to climate change.
  • Teachers can select and adapt activities to best meet the needs, interests, and learning levels of their students.
  • The resource provides a list of organizations to help students take action
  • The resource provides a list of podcasts, documentaries and videos to deepen understanding and extend the learning beyond the classroom

Recommendation of how and where to use it

This resource encourages conversations about climate change by highlighting an often-overlooked dimension—its impact on mental health. It can be connected to curriculum areas such as science, language arts, and social studies, and extended into discussions about coping strategies and constructive ways to respond to climate change. By watching short episodes, students follow characters experiencing eco-emotions such as anxiety, anger, and empathy, which can spark meaningful discussion about their own feelings and experiences. Teachers can use the series as a starting point for guided conversations and reflective writing, helping students build emotional literacy while also developing critical thinking skills.

To extend the learning, students can participate in climate action by volunteering with environmental organizations, advocating for policy changes, or adopting sustainable lifestyle choices. They can also prioritize self-care practices such as exercising, practicing mindfulness, and spending time in nature.

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Themes Addressed

Air, Atmosphere & Climate (1)

  • Climate Change

Human Health & Environment (2)

  • Health Promotion
  • Quality of Life

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