Climate change is affecting our planet. In the north, changes to the environment are already happening. Climate change will continue to impact the lives of northerners, particularly youth who will experience those impacts over a longer term.

This website focuses specifically on the north, providing information, lesson plans and resources that link directly to northern experience and northern curricula. It is our hope that Climate Change North will empower and support teachers, students, and others to understand the problem of climate change in the north, the adaptations that will be required, and the actions that will help slow its progress.

Climate Change North is owned and operated by the Northern Climate ExChange, a program of the Northern Research Institute at Yukon College.

Climate Change North was originally developed by the Yukon Conservation Society, with a major grant from the Government of Canada’s Climate Change Action Fund.

This resource couldn’t have been developed without the additional talents and resources of many people and organizations. We would like to thank the many contributors to this project.

Partners and Financial Contributors

City of Whitehorse, Environment Fund
Energy Solutions Centre
Environmental Education Association of the Yukon
Environment Yukon, Conservation Education Section
Indian and Northern Affairs Canada, Environment and Renewable Resources Directorate
Inuvialuit Renewable Resource Committees – Joint Secretariat
NWT Climate Change Centre, Arctic Energy Alliance
Education, Culture and Employment, Government of Northwest Territories
Nunavut Department of Education
Nunavut Department of Sustainable Development
Pembina Institute for Appropriate Development
Environment and Natural Resources, Government of Northwest Territories
Salamander Foundation
TELUS Foundation and Canadian Heritage
Tr’ondëk Hwëch’in First Nation
Yukon Department of Education
Yukon Development Corporation

Supporting Organizations

Council of Yukon First Nations
Inuit Tapiriit Kanatami (ITK), Canada’s National Inuit Organization

Project Contributors

Project Manager and Curriculum Specialist:

Diane Simpson, MEd, Creative Perspectives Inc.

Teachers

Teachers from across the north participated in creating lesson plans, reviewing materials, directing the project, and designing the framework:  

Suzanne Bertrand, Wade Carpenter, Susan Catlin, Nancy Colberg, Irene Dove, Allan Dunn, Kyla Fennig, Maura Glenn, Carmen Gobeil, Pat Healy, Catherine Hines, Kristin Innes-Taylor, Pat Jim, Ellen Johnson, Ed Lippert, Pam Makarewich, Maxine Malmberg, Peter Maguire, Colleen O’Brien, Ingrid Panayi, Lorrie Peterson, CarrieLyn Robinson, Paul Shearme, Grace Snider, Brent Urie, Erica Williams

Project Writers and Editors

Educators, consultants, writers and editors contributed to lesson plans, resources, curriculum charts and intermediate backgrounders:

Cynthia Barnes, Jamie Bastedo, Marianne Bromley, Guy Dauncey, Jennifer Ellis, Susan Gage, Liz Girard, Libby Gunn, Brenda Hans, Kelli Henderson, Graham McDonald, Michael Miller, Sylvia Riessner, Robin Round, Jennifer Sanders, Lori Schroeder, Norma Shorty, Diane Simpson, Grace Snider, Mindy Willett

High school backgrounders: Jennifer Ellis

Illustrator

Tanya Handley

Contributors of time, ideas, and expertise

Karen Baltgailis, Annette Boudreau, Deb Calderon, Christine Cleghorn, Steven Daniel, Cindy Dickson, Joan Eamer, Jenny Fraser, Debbie Gohl, Alice Hartling, Henry Hengeveld, Tracey Hillis, Edward Landry, Doug MacLean, Sharon Moore, Pitseolalaq Moss-Davies, Dave Mussell, Scot Nickel, Aynslie Ogden, Craig Olsen, Remy Rodden, Lorene Robertson, Lisa Taylor, Bob Van Dijken, Brian Yaminara, Pat Zellinsky, Julie Zilber

Photographs

Cathie Archbould, Photography, Whitehorse, Yukon (www.Archbould.com)
Department of Sustainable Development, Nunavut
Marketing and Communications, Nunavut Tourism
Parks and Tourism, Government of the Northwest Territories
Remy Rodden, Environment Yukon, Conservation Education Section
Rob Bales, Yukon (www.robertsonbales.ca)
Tourism and Culture, Government of Yukon
Transportation, Government of the Northwest Territories

Translation Services

Yukon Bureau of French Language Services
Northwest Territories Department of Education, Culture and Employment, Languages Services

Website Developers/Designers

Communicopia
TM NewMedia

Website Hosting

Taiga Net