Resources

• Carbon: A Unit For Years 9 and 10

  This comprehensive unit explores the nature of carbon and its effects on the environment. Following an inquiry approach, the 8 lesson package focuses student attention on 5 essential questions. • What is carbon? • What is the carbon cycle? • What...

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• Stop the Spread

  Each year millions of children suffer as a result of inadequate access to clean water.  This STEM hands-on learning unit raises awareness of the challenges in maintaining health in developing countries where infrastructure like toilets and running...

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• Operation Water Flow- Science

  In this activity the class creates a model of the subsurface showing what aquifers are and how they can be contaminated as the result of activities and processes taking place on the land's surface.  Students are able to see first-hand how human actions...

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• An Educator's Guide to Marine Debris: 6-8

  This resource provides educators with a tool to help students become more informed on marine debris and encourage environmental stewardship. The lesson plans aim to create advocates for marine environments with the students it reaches. The lesson plans...

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• Rain Check: A Guide For Stormwater Action

  This guide for taking action provides an opportunity to engage students in a service learning project. They investigate how storm water run-off can effect the water cycle, ecosystem preservation, flooding, pollution and the quality of their drinking water....

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• "After Fukushima, We Should Abandon Nuclear Power"

  Should the disaster at Fukushima and others like it over the years, force us to take a step back and consider whether such a potentially dangerous energy source is worth the risk for the clean energy it provides? Might other sources of energy, such as...

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• Climate change - who's in control?

  Students participate in a role play to explore the question of 'who should take responsibility for reducing the effects of climate change'.  Using background information provided, students represent different perspectives in a discussion/debate as...

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• Seafood Education Kit Elementary

  This resource provides a series of hands-on and inquiry based activities which educate, equip and empower students to be stewards for sustainable food choices and healthy oceans.  In Lesson 1, the students learn about the water cycle through diagrams,...

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• Lesson 2: Land Use Picture Project

  Using a digital camera to document local landscapes as they are today, students explore how changes in human land use are creating social impacts and impacting local environments. Five student photographers from the class are asked to take photos between...

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• Green Life Planet Series-Learning Resources

  This video-based resource is designed to promote interest and develop understanding and skills related to sustainable development. The lessons are based on DVD episodes, each focusing on a different sustainability issue, including how humans have affected...

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• Climate Change in the Garden: One Seed at a Time

  This innovative resource explores climate change impacts on food production with a series of activities that build environmental stewardship skills.  As students examine how rising temperatures are impacting ecological factors like pollination cycles,...

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• Junior Pest Investigators Teacher's Guide

  Junior Pest Investigators Teacher’s Guide In this engaging classroom resource young learners take on the role of Pest Investigators to track down solutions to common pest problems that minimize harm to human health and the environment.   Along...

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• Lesson 2: Water

  Students list uses of water.  Some take digital pictures of water use on behalf of the class.  Groups analyze these pictures considering both the use of water and the environmental impact.  The pictures and analyses are presented to the...

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• Food, Farming, and Climate Change

  How does climate change affect your food? Watch a video to learn how climate change affects  farms and what farmers in your area are doing about it. Research different farming techniques,  and learn how agriculture can affect climate change...

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• The Secret Path Senior Years Lesson Plans

  As part of their ongoing commitment to engage teachers in reconciliation work the Manitoba Teachers' Society recently assembled a group of indigenous and non-Indigenous teachers from across the province to discuss and explore the Secret Path. This was...

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• Bioaccumulation: A Case Study of British Columbia’s Killer Whales

  Bioaccumulation: A Case Study of British Columbia's Killer Whales is a series of five related classroom lessons during which students will learn about the natural history of British Columbia's killer whale population and the threats they face.  Emphasis...

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• The Big Picture on Biodiversity and Climate Change

  This is a highly experiential learning resource that explores the relationship among biodiversity, climate change and human health. In addition to drawing attention to the importance of species diversity the resource provides both ideas and support ...

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• Wind Power Challenge

  The Wind Power resource is an exciting hands-on STEM challenge for students. The main goal of this lesson is to enable students to look at a problem faced by communities that don't have access to electricity, and to then make their own model of a simple...

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• Buy Nothing Day

  This lesson plan focuses students attention on the issue of consumerism and asks them to consider its benefits and drawbacks.  Students identify the different influences on their spending habits with special attention to the role of the media. ...

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• Map IT. Bike IT. Walk IT

  This resource is built around an engaging student-led field activity.  Students develop their own personal geographies, increase their awareness of environmental and safety issues related to transportation in their local area, and explore green transportation...

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