• Ocean Plastics Education Kit for Elementary School

  The Ocean Plastic Education Kit provides a variety of lesson plans, activities and resources to bring ocean literacy into the elementary classroom to educate, equip and empower students to be ocean stewards. Through these activities, students will learn...

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• Ocean Plastics Education Kit for Middle School

  Did you know that around 13 million tonnes of plastics enter oceanic currents annually? This has resulted in more pieces of plastic in our ocean than stars in the galaxy. To help educators bring ocean literacy into the classroom, Ocean Wise has created...

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• Ocean Plastics Education Kit for High School

  Ocean Wise has created The Ocean Plastic Education Kit for High Schools to encourage educators to bring ocean literacy into the classroom. This easy-to-use resource provides a variety of lesson plans with curriculum connections to Chemistry, Environmental...

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• Understanding Child Labor

  Child exploitation is one of the most serious ethical issues that entrepreneurs, businesses and consumers must be aware of. Child labour has been deemed as unethical and illegal globally, yet there are millions of cases around the world where children...

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• Sustainable Water Solutions

  In this resource students work to map out the strengths and weaknesses of various solutions to the growing need for water and the quest for its conservation. Within the lesson, the students will be guided to consider the environmental, social, economical...

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• Squirrels

  "Squirrels" is an easy-to-use resource that helps introduce students to animal behavior and the skills need for making wildlife observations. Through the activities included, the students are introduced to the terms of "caching" and "cache". In the preliminary...

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• Maple Syrup Inquiry

  The warm days of early Spring announce the end of a long Canadian winter and the start of the traditional maple syrup season that first began when First Nations communities discovered how to harvest the sap from maple trees.  This lesson introduces...

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• The Impact of our Food

  This multimedia animation explores the environmental impact of food production.  In game format it allows students to rank common foods according to three different parameters:  total carbon footprint associated with the product and the water...

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• The Nature of Biodiversity

  Our planet's diverse, thriving ecosystems may seem like permanent fixtures, but they're actually vulnerable to collapse. Jungles can become deserts, and reefs can become lifeless rocks.  What makes one ecosystem strong and another weak in the face...

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• Let's ID That Tree!

  Outdoor exploration and technology combine in this innovative lesson that has young students learning about the native and non-native tree species found in their community.  Learners use the free Pl@ntNet app as a scientific tool that aids in tree...

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• Watershed

  In this three part lesson, students grow their understanding of the term "watershed" and how their everyday activities can have an impact on the world's oceans.  In the first activity, the students create a watershed using a shower curtain, their...

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• Environmental Justice!

  Environmental Justice! is a freely-available community research guide developed as part of the Smithsonian Science Institute's Global Goals project. The guide helps young people learn more about the concerns of their community in order to communicate...

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• Urban forests and the Emerald Ash Borer

  The beautiful, jewel green of the Emerald Ash Borer (EAB) belies the destructive force of this Asian beetle that threatens Canada's forests and trees that are essential to healthy, sustainable towns and cities.  This lesson introduces students to...

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• Exploring the Impacts of Feeding the World

  In this two-day lesson students will be introduced to several issues related to the social, economic, and environmental impacts of our current food system.  These include food waste, food deserts, agricultural land use, and the environmental impacts...

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• Respectful Collaboration to Create Sustainable Energy

  How can UNDRIP be used to guide respectful collaboration with First Nations? In this activity, students review articles from the UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples (UNDRIP) to better understand what respectful collaboration with...

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• Two-Eyed Seeing

  Students are introduced to the Indigenous idea of two-eyed seeing, learning to see from one eye with the strengths of Indigenous knowledge and ways of knowing and from the other eye with the strengths of Western knowledge and learning to use both these...

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• Exploring Perspectives on Sustainability

  In this thought starter activity, students explore perspectives on sustainability and then use two-eyed seeing to identify the strengths of Western and Indigenous perspectives on sustainability. Students will: reflect on and suggest how they would define...

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• Nature Connections

  Students view a video about Indigenous Peoples’ connection to their land and place and reflect about their special place in nature. They share their stories and places in a talking circle and reflect on the connection to place and caring for the...

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• Indigenous Communities and Climate Resilience

  This thought starter activity provides an opportunity to open the discussion regarding Indigenous communities' roles in developing climate resilience. Students make predictions, discuss statements and use clues from the article to guide their thinking....

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• Forced to Flee

  In this simulation students will work together with a "family" as conflict strikes their peaceful community. The objective is achieve the best future possible post-conflict which includes maintaining a steady supply of food, health and money cards.  This...

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