Malawi | Interactive Resources in Teaching Climate Change Literacy in Kenya: Opportunities and Challenges

44th EEASA Conference: Reimagining Education for Climate Resilience, Justice, and Sustainable Futures | 21-25 September 2026, Crossroads Hotel |

Lilongwe, Malawi

Climate change literacy (CCL) is a critical enabler of progress toward United Nations Sustainable Development Goal 13, which calls for urgent action to combat climate change and its impacts. Education is widely recognised as a key mechanism for equipping learners with the competencies required to understand and respond to the climate crisis. Within this context, integrating CCL into early childhood education is essential for fostering environmentally responsible attitudes and behaviours. In Kenya, the Competency-Based Curriculum (CBC) embeds climate change concepts within the Environmental Activities learning area, offering opportunities for learner-centred and interactive pedagogies. However, the extent to which interactive resources are utilised in practice remains unclear. This study examines the use of interactive resources in Grade 3 Environmental Activities and explores the opportunities and challenges teachers encounter in their implementation. A descriptive qualitative design was adopted, combining content analysis of Grade 3 instructional materials with semi-structured interviews involving primary school teachers. The findings indicate limited integration of interactive and storytelling approaches. Classroom interactivity is largely confined to group discussions, with few instances of storytelling through songs and poems and minimal variation in narrative techniques. Key challenges identified include inadequate instructional materials, limited availability of localised content, and constrained access to digital infrastructure. The study highlights the need to enhance the design of instructional resources by embedding diverse interactive elements and storytelling strategies. It further underscores the potential of digital authoring tools, such as H5P, to support interactive content development, and calls for targeted teacher capacity-building initiatives to strengthen the effective delivery of climate change literacy in early education.

Keywords: Climate change literacy, interactive learning resources, storytelling, environmental education, digital learning tools