Environmental education connects us to the world around us, teaching us about both natural and built environments. It raises awareness of issues impacting the environment upon which we all depend, as well as actions we can take to improve and sustain it. Learning about the environment encourages students to research, investigate, and make their own decisions about complex environmental issues. By developing and enhancing critical and creative thinking skills, these lessons help foster a new generation of informed consumers, workers, as well as policy or decision makers. Moreover, climate change education provides an important window into individual and societal responsibility. Winchester not only has an interest in teaching subjects that will prepare students for careers and earn them good test scores, but to teach them to be mindful citizens. Teaching climate change means teaching topics like environmental stewardship and collective responsibility — showing students that they and those around them have a responsibility to something larger than themselves.