These coloring pages focus on allowing students to reduce their stress or anxiety and express their feelings about climate change and the environment.
The resource includes several pages that can be printed and colored.
Teaching Tips
Positives
The coloring pages are detailed and will be engaging for students at most levels.
Several designs are available, which will provide students choice in their activity.
Additional Prerequisites
Students should be comfortable perceiving meaning from pictures or art.
You will need to create a free account in order to access the coloring pages.
Differentiation
This resource would be a great one for use during free time or choice time.
Consider using these pages as a way for students to personalize their journals or notebooks.
These coloring pages would make a great start for a student writing activity, where students write about their feelings around climate change.
Art students could use the images as inspiration for creating their own coloring pages or artwork to express their feelings or convey a message.
Scientist Notes
This resource provides a student handout that includes five coloring pages to help ease the anxiety of climate change through the use of art and coloring. These coloring pages would be a great addition to a classroom discussion about climate change and the emotional, psychological and social well-being effects that the climate crisis can have on people. This resource is recommended for teaching.
Standards
National Core Arts Standards
Visual Arts: Standard 3 - Refine and complete artistic work.
VA:Cr3.1.3a Elaborate visual information by adding details in an artwork to enhance emerging meaning.
Visual Arts: Standard 11 - Relate artistic ideas and works with societal, cultural, and historical context to deepen understanding.
VA:Cn11.1.5a Identify how art is used to inform or change beliefs, values, or behaviors of an individual or society.
