Provided by: Children’s Environmental Literacy Foundation |Published on: January 27, 2026
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K-12
Synopsis
In this lesson from the Children’s Environmental Literacy Foundation, students will write their own narrative stories about their experience with the environment and environmental issues.
Students will use these narratives to create, record, and publish multimedia presentations.
Students will love working with multimedia components to create a final product that they can be proud of and look back on.
Using storytelling highlights students’ individual voices, which will help them feel connected to their learning.
Prerequisites
Students may benefit from the teacher modeling the writing of an eco-narrative or providing an example that was prepared ahead of time.
Teachers may want to introduce older students to environmental issues and environmental activists ahead of time so they can make connections to these topics in the discussion questions and in their narratives.
Differentiation & Implementation
Though the primary lesson is geared for older students, the lesson includes grade-level modifications throughout for PK-1
To make connections to climate change, teachers can ask that students highlight how climate change has impacted or will impact their eco-narratives.
Students may need extra time and support to familiarize themselves with multimedia tools, such as Canva.
Classrooms without one-to-one tech can have students use a low-tech approach by creating posters and presenting their stories to the class or for the teacher to record.
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