Youth Media Challenge: Climate Change Hub
Welcome to your go-to space for empowering students to create impactful, evidence-based climate media for the KQED Youth Media Challenge. Whether they’re crafting podcasts, videos, or photo essays, use our resources and storytelling tools to help students explore climate change through research, creativity, and personal reflection.
Explore our resources, find inspiration, and join us in preparing students to be climate storytellers who amplify their voices, share solutions, and spark action in their communities and beyond!
Getting Started with Climate-Focused Media
Select the Youth Media Challenge project your students will focus on, and frame it within the context of climate change using the following guiding questions:
Call for Change
Students choose a local, national or global topic and express their views in an issue-based audio or video commentary or editorial cartoon.
What action do you hope to see in response to climate change?
Show What You Know
Students show what they know about a topic, concept or scientific phenomenon in a podcast, mini-documentary or infographic.
What key information do people need to better understand and care about climate change?
First Person
Students share a memory, story or life lesson about themselves or their community in a personal narrative audio essay, short film or photo essay.
What is your climate story?
Educator Supports
Climate Change Resources
Explore these online resources to deepen your understanding of climate change science, adaptation and mitigation strategies, and access up-to-date data and visualizations:
Berkeley Earth: Open Source temperature and climate data and visualizations
Climate and Economic Justice Screening Tool: a geospatial mapping tool that identifies disadvantaged communities that face environmental burdens
Self-Paced Courses
KQED Teach courses feature step-by-step videos and hands-on activities to help you successfully integrate this media making project into your classroom. Get started with one of these:
Making Media to Inspire Learning with
Above the Noise Episodes
Watch videos from our award-winning series that investigates topics and issues related to the environment and climate:
Live Workshops
Receive hands-on experience, curriculum resources, and access to web-based media tools needed to start a media project in your classroom. Browse the full schedule of workshops or start with one of these: