The Learning Companion to Climate Cooldown
Cool Your Impact
Climate Cooldown is a cooperative board game where you work together to save the planet.
This learning companion brings every card into the classroom with definitions and discussion prompts for every grade - including connections to pathways and the UN Sustainable Development Goals.
Game-based learning for climate literacy.
Climate Cooldown answers climate anxiety with agency — students work as a team to understand a changing world and shape where the story goes. These modules bring that spirit into the classroom, one card at a time.
Explore a changing planet
Climate: card by card
Every card in Climate Cooldown is a Cooldown, a Disaster, or a Power card — each with its own color, so students always know what's in play.
Cooldown32 cardsClimate solutions: the everyday changes, land restoration, and ocean protection that cool the planet and lower our impact.General16Land9Ocean7
Disaster28 cardsThe threats a warming world sends our way — the floods, fires, droughts, and storms players work together to weather.
Power12 cardsThe energy behind it all: the clean power worth investing in, and the fossil fuels worth leaving behind.Sustainable8Unsustainable4In the classroom
Built for teaching, not just playing
Climate Cooldown can be played in a single class period, with natural breaks for discussion before, during, and after play. This companion turns every card into a lesson — grade-aware, standards-minded, and ready for any desk in the room.
Prompts for every grade
Every card carries discussion prompts at four levels, elementary through advanced. Pick a level once, and it follows you across the deck.
Mapped to the Sustainable Development Goals
Each card connects to the UN Sustainable Development Goals it touches, linking a single lesson out to the bigger global picture.
From cards to careers
Every topic lists the real degrees and careers behind it — for students wondering where a curiosity might lead.