Meet the 2026 Climate Change and Wellbeing Education Grant Recipients

This project will integrate climate change and environmental history into HIST112: Global History from the 15th to the 20th Century and HIST113: Global History Since 1900. These courses introduce students to the political, social, economic, cultural, and intellectual transformations that shaped the modern world from the fifteenth century to the present.

This course revision integrates socio-environmental impact assessment and demand-side solutions into material design criteria of the two existing courses Modelling of Materials Processes and Functional Materials.

This project will develop and implement a game that enhances learning of climate change impacts on global health while supporting student wellbeing through active, reflective, and collaborative learning approaches.

This project for HGSE 383 looks to: deepen students' engagement with climate justice and climate economics as experienced on Haida Gwaii; help students weigh culture, environment, and commerce when designing a social innovation; and support student wellbeing with tools for action, that foster a sense of agency instead of distress.

This project aims to integrate climate change and health curriculum into PSYO 520: Behavioural Health Psychology and Illness and PSYO 348: Health Psychology. It will be grounded in a biopsychosocial framework and will expand content to address physical and mental health consequences of climate change, climate-driven health disparities, and psychosocial strategies for resilience and adaptation. 

This course will: equip students to analyze the digital city through a Lefebvrian right-to-the-city lens, including climate dimensions; develop critical digital literacy as a form of urban citizenship; cultivate spatial empathy as an analytical and wellbeing capacity; integrate climate justice into urban geographical practice; and consolidate the design thinking scaffold built across the four-year urban geography sequence.

This project intends to: integrate climate change and wellbeing content into SOCI 200 with two new interdisciplinary teaching modules on the intersections of family and climate change; develop assessments using flexible and multimodal approaches; support student wellbeing and resilience through pedagogical strategies; and create sustainable and transferable resources, including an open-access webpage and OER resources.

This project will implement a 9-hour WJCS module inEDST 401 that equips teacher candidates with foundational knowledge, pedagogical strategies, and practical resources for integrating climate action and climate justice into K–12 classrooms, while attending to their wellbeing and that of the students they educate.

This project will: integrate climate change and wellbeing content into APBI 342/FRST 310 through the lens of soil biodiversity and microbiomes; connect soil processes with climate adaptation, mitigation, and human health through systems-thinking; develop a student-led dialogue on soil biodiversity, public discourse, and policy; create reusable course materials; and foster engagement through agency, evidence, and dialogue.

This project will revise course content in the Health, Outdoor and Physical Education (HOPE) program by strengthening connections between climate change and wellbeing education in two courses – EDCP 326: Health Education: Curriculum and Pedagogy, a required B.Ed. course for secondary HOPE teacher candidates, and EDCP 508: Current Research in Physical Education, a graduate course.