Resources

• Nowhere Else on Earth

  In this non-fiction text, Caitlyn Vernon shares her knowledge and love of the Great Bear Rainforest; the largest unlogged temperate rainforest in the world. The text is broken into ten topical chapters  that teach about the forest's iconic species...

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• Hoot

  Roy is the bullied new kid in this Southern Florida suburb. As his face is being smushed into the bus window he sees a barefooted, running boy. Roy is intrigued and seeks him out. It turns out this boy, Mullet Fingers is actually a runaway and an environmental...

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• What’s Globalization Got To Do With Me?

  Students explore ways in which they are linked to flows of people, capital, goods and services around the world; discuss advantages and disadvantages of globalisation; and analyse the intercultural understandings that inform working in a global context....

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• Freshwater: How Your T-Shirt Can Make a Difference

  Did you know that the cotton t-shirt on your back has a major impact on the planet? A short series of effective graphics is used to identify the “costs” from the water required to make the t-shirt (2,700 litres) and the energy needed to grow,...

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• Water Cycle Jump

  This highly entertaining music video, part of the Nye Tunes “Sound Track of Science”, features a rap song to effectively explain the water cycle, and includes descriptions of the key processes of evaporation, condensation, and precipitation....

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• Sustainable Food

  Author and activist Michael Pollan, a passionate advocate for sustainable food, explores how our industrial food system keeps us overly dependent on fossil fuels, destroys our environment, and makes us sick. In doing so, Pollan links the current approach...

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• We're All Connected

  This engaging video, part of the Nye Tunes “Sound Track of Science” is a tribute to biodiversity. The clip highlights how our own survival depends on maintaining diversity on our planet. Food webs, habitat protection, and interdependence...

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• Future History: Plastic Bottle Usage

  In this short program set 3000 years in the future, anthropologists put forth theories on the origin of the billions of plastic water bottle “artifacts” uncovered on the planet. The confusion of the narrator/anthropologist is clear as she...

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• Current Food Issues

  The Saskatchewan Organic Directorate (SOD) has produced these materials to help learners explore the challenges and advantages of local food production.  The resource also involves students in the preparation of tasty dishes based on  local,...

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• Wetlands and Biodiversity

  This video message highlights the threat to the second most diverse eco-system in the world –wetlands, and the need to conserve and protect them. Focusing on the staggering rate of disappearance of wetlands in Canada, it emphasizes the many benefits...

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• Wetland Wonderland

  In this video two young students with the help of a biologist, discover the value of wetlands and the importance of conserving them. Using excellent photography the students learn how wetlands filter water and provide habitat for many plants and animals....

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• Ocean Commotion

  Two young students with the help of a biologist discover that what is rinsed down the drain, put in trash cans and sprinkled on gardens can end up in the ocean. They see that our actions can effect marine habitat, and that pollutants can become embedded...

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• Stand By Me

  This music video of the Ben E. King classic “Stand by Me”, features a collaboration of 35 street musicians from around the world bringing a message of peace. The first of a series of videos produced by the “Playing for Change Movement”,...

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• To the Last Fish: What Happened to all the Cod

  This video provides information, statistics and compelling stories from both coasts of Canada to examine the rapid disappearance of fish stocks and the decimation of the oceans over the past 10-15 years. The focus on the over-exploitation of resources...

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• Rick Mercer: Black Bear Tagging in Algonquin Park

  An excerpt from CBC’s The Mercer Report, this video features Rick Mercer joining biologists at Algonquin Park on a mission to tag black bear cubs.  Spectacular helicopter shots are included as Rick and the bear experts locate the sleeping bear’s...

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• The Story of Stuff-Bottled Water

  This video uses the concept of “manufactured demand” to explain why North Americans consume water from over half a billion of plastic bottles every week, when it already flows from the tap. With cartoon graphics, host Anne Leonard explores...

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• The Story of Stuff

  This video provides a fast-paced, fact-filled look at the underside of our production and consumption patterns. Using cartoon graphics, host Anne Leonard explores the many connections between global economic, environmental, and social issues, and challenges...

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• Magic School Bus- Gets Swamped

  This episode from the Magic School Bus series of children’s books about science, sees an eccentric teacher (Ms. Frizzle) take her class on an exciting educational field trip. With the help of a magic school bus the class explores and learns many...

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• Magic School Bus- In The Rainforest

  This video based on the Magic School Bus series of children’s books about science sees an eccentric teacher (Ms. Frizzle) take her class on an exciting educational field trip. With the help of a magic school bus the class explores and learns many...

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• Magic School Bus- Holiday Special

  This video based on the Magic School Bus series of children’s books about science sees an eccentric teacher (Ms. Frizzle) take her class on an exciting educational field trip. With the help of a magic school bus the class explores and learns many...

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