The Climate Inquiry Unit is an exciting new teaching resource for Year 7-8.
Bring our climate adaptation game to your classroom
Curious Climate Schools is a University of Tasmania program that connects school students aged 10-18 with trusted climate experts, and provides climate education resources to schools in Tasmania. All the resources we design are based on research with children and young people.
Teachers! Want to get involved?
We have created exciting new climate change education resources to help you engage your students in active learning and to connect in person with our experts. If you are a Tasmanian High School teacher, many of these resources are currently free thanks to support from the Tasmanian Government Climate Change Office.
Find out about our CLIMATE INQUIRY UNIT for Grade 7-8Book THE HEAT IS ON game for your classOrder our CLIMATE CURIOUS? cartoon guideWe've answered 600 climate questions so far...
Our team of climate scientists, conservation biologists, fire scientists, chemists, lawyers, engineers, psychologists, social scientists, oceanographers, Indigenous knowledge specialists and health experts, have answered more than 600 of your questions! You can find answers to questions by searching for a particular topic, or looking at the questions we've organised into themes: most asked, looking ahead & taking action.
Or you can find out what questions each class asked, or look up an expert for all their answers.
Or you can find out what questions each class asked, or look up an expert for all their answers.
There are also free resources for all students and teachers in our Toolkit. Here you can find information about the science of climate change, impacts of the climate crisis, how to navigate feelings about climate change and ways to take individual and collective action.
Who is behind Curious Climate Schools? Curious Climate Schools is run by climate change and education researchers the University of Tasmania. It’s received funding from the Tasmanian Climate Change Office, the University’s School of Geography, Planning, and Spatial Sciences (GPSS), the University’s Centre for Marine Socioecology (CMS), and the University's Sustainability Centre. Curious Climate Schools builds on the first successful Curious Climate project which answered climate questions in communities around Tasmania.
