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"Mommy, What's an anti-climate?"

A few years ago, some US Government agency developed a series called "Disaster Kids." I swear it's true. The program was set up to tell/teach children in a fun way how to react to a nuclear. weather, etc. disaster. Funny, but now I remember it was during the "nucular" years. (Um- hum , now you know which government administration I am referring to.) I found it entertaining at the time.
Disaster Kids had all kinds of educational coloring books and games for the kids to play; quizzes were lots of fun. I don't know what happened to the program. Probably not funded by the right wing Heartland Institute. But maybe, with Amgen, cigarette manufacturer Altria , and Comcast funding, it could have been....

Now, that there seems to be a curriculum from a think-tank called the Heartland Institute that 'injects skepticism on climate change,' let's not fall into 'slepticism.' Let's not fall asleep at the wheel or forget that we are driving our children's future. Maybe we need to sit with our children and our families and review their materials from school with the same type of creative energy. If we are now frightened by learning modules that show humans are not the cause of pollution, we need to learn once again to sit at the table after dinner and talk. Sit in the evening with our family with the television off and discuss the world, our studies and the tremendous amount of outside influence that is just wrong. Maybe we need to use the word wrong and bad without feeling old fashioned or uptight.
We've become so open minded that we leave those two words out of our character studies, out of our moral choices. There still is a wrong, there still is a bad. There is bad science, there are bad corporations, there is bad media, there are oh, just so wrong moments in education

Just maybe an inspiration. I have not reviewed this book, but seems to be on the right track. Do your own search for age appropriate guides. Parenting With Love And Logic (Foster Cline and Jim Fay)