Resources

• Empowering Learners in a Warming World

  This guide will provide educators with a blend of quality content (resources, websites, books, videos and ideas) and exemplary pedagogy to guide students through an inquiry-driven approach to climate change learning. It draws upon seven key strategies...

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• Thirsty Planet; World Water Lessons

  The purpose of this resource is to enhance students’ awareness of the distribution and value of clean drinking water. Students will develop critical views about managing and sustaining this vital resource. The material is suitable for grades 4...

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• Patterns through the Seasons

  This unit/module is designed as a curriculum resource for teachers who want to use a school food garden as an "outdoor classroom" where students can experience hands-on learning in many areas of the curriculum. This unit will provide year round learning...

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• Global Schools Program Grade 7

  In this resource, students will start to conceptualize themselves as changemakers. By learning from their peers and other members of the community, students will begin to make plans for how they can make the world around them a better place.  Lesson...

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• Your Guide to Taking Action with Community Mapping

  The resource takes the form of a workbook that guides the students through the steps for taking action on a local issue.  The students first draw a map of their community in order to identify its key assets and important issues.  The students...

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• Turning Learning into Action

  The purpose of this resource is to use global goals as a catalyst to enable students to define a local community problem they would like to solve and to begin by creating a plan of action. In this activity, students will: • by the community walker,...

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• Water & Biodiversity: Cleaning Up our Act

  Water and Diversity: Cleaning up our act is intended to raise awareness of the impact humans have had on aquatic ecosystems. Moreover, they are intended to make students aware of the conservation efforts that are ongoing in their communities, and to inspire...

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• Sow the Seed

  By helping pupils understand that climate change is impacting agriculture worldwide, this classroom resource for teachers endeavours to encourage active global citizenship. Pupils begin by planting some seeds of their own. Teachers then select from...

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• Climate Justice in BC

  This Climate Justice in BC resource package was designed to provide teachers with classroom-ready materials to engage their students with how climate action intersects with social justice. The curriculum features eight modules designed for students in...

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• Healthy Neighborhood Healthy Kids

  Healthy Neighborhood Healthy Kids is an in-depth resource with a service-learning project as its culmination.  The resource is comprised of seven activities to engage students in meaningful exploration of their community and to provide teachers,...

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• Take Action for Nature and Your Community

  This unique resource offers teachers a ready to use set of tools to examine climate change, particularly how it is affecting Alaska's ecosystem. This resource is based on powerful videos and reflection questions so students really grasp the issues presented....

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• Beat The Flood

  Beat The Flood is a STEM resource that promotes critical thinking, problem solving, communication and collaboration. This resource has students look at flooding around the world and learn more about flood-resistant housing. As we know, flooding due to...

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• Heat Up Over Climate Change

  The purpose of this education package is to ensure students connect climate change to the effects it is already having on children living in the world's most vulnerable communities. The pack is divided into four sections: Know More - three activities...

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• Canada in a Changing Climate: Society and Economy

  Through a variety of activities, this resource seeks to educate students about the factors that contribute to climate change and their effects on society, the economy and the environment. They will also explore adapting to the existing and projected effects...

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• Listening Takes Heart

  Listening Takes Heart is the first lesson plan in a set of three centered around the theme of Citizenship prepared for Martin Luther King Jr. Day. In this lesson, the students will observe an artwork and using Visual Thinking Strategies prompts describe...

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• Developing Rights

  Developing Rights seeks to assist young students in examining human rights, first in their own lives, and then by making extensions into other social contexts found worldwide. Some of the issues include bullying, violence and disability. Six separate...

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• Canada's Forests: A Fine Balance- Vol. 5

  This resource provides 9 distinct lessons (gr. 4 to 12 levels) on topics related to Species at Risk and the role of forests in sheltering and supporting wildlife species in Canada. The lessons follow the Pan-Canadian curriculum and are designed...

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• Engaging Students in Conservation; Protecting the Endangered Snow Leopard

  These five engaging lessons can stand alone or be used as a comprehensive unit to help students explore issues and topics related to snow leopards and conservation. Students will: understand the pressures and the interconnectedness of these pressures...

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• Decent Work and Growth

  Social enterprises trade in order to tackle social problems and improve communities, people’s life chances, or the environment. They make their money from selling goods and services on the open market, but they reinvest their profits back into the...

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• Listen Up!

  This resource focuses on developing empathetic listening skills in students, so that they are able to effectively communicate with adults when discussing their thoughts and feelings about climate change. The resource is designed in three separate parts: Part...

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