Funded by the Alumni Class Funds Grant, the Climate Justice Instructional Toolkit (CJIT) houses a wide-range of climate justice adaptable teaching modules, a starter guide for teaching climate justice, resources for students, and climate justice data sets that can serve as supportive tools to enhance professor and instructor teaching content and approaches across Departments, Labs, and Centers (DLCs) at MIT.
As part of a larger initiative to expand climate justice education at MIT, the MIT Environmental Solutions Initiative is excited to share the Climate Justice Instructional Toolkit.
The primary goal of these resources and programming is to provide support to faculty members and instructors across disciplines within introductory undergraduate courses to facilitate the integration of climate justice content and related instructional approaches into their courses.
Although this Toolkit was designed with MIT as being its primary audience, it is also completely open for anyone to use.
Before exploring the Climate Justice Instructional Toolkit Resources, see this starter guide, which will help you take full advantage of the Toolkit resources.
Explore the Climate Justice Instructional Toolkit Resources
Part 1: Teaching Climate & Environmental Justice
Part 2: Defining Environmental and Climate Justice
Part 3: Student Literacies
Part 4: Instructional Approaches
Part 5: Environmental and Climate Justice Pedagogy in Action
Part 6: Frameworks for Instructional Change
Climate and Environmental Justice Student Resources
Data Sets and Resources
CJIT Workshop Series: Teaching Climate Justice Across the Curriculum
White paper on Mapping and Expanding Climate and Environmental Justice in MIT's STEM Departments
A Starter Guide for Teaching Climate & Environmental Justice
Toward "Resistance and Re-visioning": Exploring the Integration of Community Partnerships and Decolonial Field Methods in an Undergraduate Environmental Justice Program
Environmental justice teaching in an undergraduate context: examining the intersection of community‐engaged, inclusive, and anti‐racist pedagogy
If you prefer to use Google Slides, see the Module Conversion Guide.
If you prefer to use Google Slides, see the Module Conversion Guide.
Workshop #2: Khalid Kadir, Engineering Justice
After exploring or using the climate justice resources, we would greatly appreciate it if you filled out our feedback form so we can evaluate the effectiveness and uptake of the Toolkit to improve its resources for future iterations.
If you are interested in collaborating or getting involved with to the Toolkit please contact the ESI Education Program Director Chris Rabe (cjrabe@mit.edu).
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Frequently Asked Questions
The Toolkit was designed with undergraduate introductory courses as the primary audience. However, the Toolkit could be adapted for advanced highschool contexts, used for student self-study, or potentially used for professional development.
- Browse through the modules and educational resources (below) and take and adapt what you need for your teaching context.
- Gain ideas from the activity, assignment, and project options we provide in each module.
- Flip the classroom by assigning a module for homework and focusing on discussion in the classroom.
- Learn more about common pedagogies and strategies for teaching climate justice from the Starter Guide, or video lectures linked below.
No, this Toolkit is focused on climate justice – the inequitable impacts of climate change on the world’s most vulnerable groups, and the process of identifying and working on solutions to address these issues.
The Toolkit was designed to be used with audiences that are already curious and interested in climate justice. However, many of the modules and resources available provide evidence and introductory material that may be helpful for partially skeptical audiences.
The Climate Justice Instructional Toolkit Team
The Climate Justice Instructional Toolkit was created by Chris Rabe, Madison York, Wen Li Yau, Rachel Carethers, Amberley Yang, Bethany Costanzo, and Madeline Schlegel. Learn more about the team.
Materials on this page and within the Climate Justice Instructional Toolkit project are licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.
As part of a larger initiative to expand climate justice education at MIT, the MIT Environmental Solutions Initiative is excited to share the Climate Justice Instructional Toolkit. 
