Resources

• Great Canadian Shoreline Cleanup Curriculum Guide: Grades 4-7

  This comprehensive resource encourages students to engage in nature and make positive changes to their environments. Its focuses on the problems associated with shoreline litter and supports an action project to ‘clean up’ a local shoreline....

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• Thirst: Lesson Plan

  More than 100 First Nations communities across Canada do not have clean, safe drinking water. Thirst is a glimpse into Keewaywin, an Oji-Cree community north of Red Lake, Ontario, where the water is contaminated with uranium and residents are forced...

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• Raising Her Voice

  This inventive resource brings music into the classroom and encourages learners to use creativity in exploring the connections between gender inequality, poverty and sustainable communities.  The power of music as a vehicle for social change is a...

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• Ecosystem Imbalance in the World

  Students build on their knowledge of individual impacts on the ocean to see how the whole system can react to threats and changes. They examine ways in which human actions throw marine ecosystems out of balance, explore the concept of how impacts can...

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• Healthy Soil - Healthy Plants!

  This simple lesson plan uses experiential activities to help develop student understanding of soil composition and plant growth.  With an emphasis on conservation, the soil activities provide many opportunities for classroom  discussion of ...

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• Experience Energy

  This resource is comprised of six lessons with the goal of helping students to gain a deeper understanding of energy, the connection between energy and the environment, how energy is used, methods of conservation and renewable energy solutions. Lesson...

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• Citizen Climate Curriculum

  This resource examines the scientific basis for urgent action on climate change as well as the social, economic and political implications of the policy formed in response. Students view selected videos, read and discuss scientific reports, articles...

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• My Green City

  Students work in small groups to design a sustainable city. After exploring examples of innovation in some of the world’s best known cities they consider specific sustainability challenges that must be overcome to meet the energy, transportation,...

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• We Fight Climate Change

  In this guided inquiry, students research the causes and consequences of climate change, brainstorm practical solutions to the problem and create a magazine to present their findings as a series of articles and photos. Teachers use classroom sessions...

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• Connections: The Basics of Biodiversity- Module 2

  "Connections: The Basics of Biodiversity Module 2" is part of a larger resource entitled Backyard Biodiversity and Beyond. Module 2 is an interesting and engaging action project resource which contains messages and activities about the nature and value...

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• Nature's Partners - Pollination, Plants and You

  This comprehensive set of seven learning modules introduces students to the fascinating relationship between plants and pollinating insects.  Throughout the detailed biological investigation of bees, moths and butterflies there is an emphasis on...

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• Pulling for Biodiversity

  Examples used in "Pulling for Biodiversity" are specific to Ontario. It introduces the concept of invasive species, and explains in an interactive and engaging manner why they are destructive and what can done about them.  Activities: Activity 1....

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• Disappearing Act

  In taking hundreds of years to decompose, plastics present a major challenge in the effective management and disposal of solid waste. In response, researchers have been developing new materials that decompose more quickly for use in the manufacture of...

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• Reduce, Reuse, Recycle

  Building on Needs vs Wants,  this multi-step lesson contributes to the theme of responsible consumption by focusing attention on how we all can and should work to protect the earth’s natural resources. Through a number of engaging activities...

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• The Back to School Plastic Challenge

  This activity based resource developed by the UN Clean Seas campaign contains a series of projects that involve students in identifying and quantifying plastic waste at school and home.  The problem-based learning experience develops environmental...

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• Through Mala's Eyes

  Through Mala's Eyes takes a look at the Inuit community and helps students understand and appreciate one of the diverse cultures that exist within Canada. This resource looks at the life of an Inuit community in northern Quebec, through the eyes of Mala,...

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• Understanding the Challenges of Finite Resources

  This lesson is part of a series of lessons which introduce students to a different way of thinking about how our economy could work: a circular economy. The series builds up exactly how a circular economy is different from the status quo, and looks at...

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• A Warmer World for Arctic Animals

  The effects of climate change on ecosystems and the distribution of organisms within them are already evident in the Arctic. In this lesson, students will learn about the challenges that climate change presents for four specific Arctic predators. They...

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• Energy Consumption

  This inquiry-based, action-oriented resource focuses attention on the issue of energy conservation. Students conduct school, personal, and classroom energy use audits to yield 'before' results. After scrutiny and analysis of their findings, students...

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• Water & ? = Trouble

  In this ESD lesson, students take the role of an investigative reporter for their school's 'environmental television network' and explore the mystery surrounding an outbreak of water borne illness. As part of their efforts to solve the mystery, ...

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