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• Dirty Air and Bright Lights

  Students are presented with the relationship of bright lights, holiday lights and other intense uses of electricity in terms of the effects on air quality, and the subsequent effect on human health. If dirty air makes people sick, what can be...

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• Climate Change: Connections and Solutions- Gr. 6-8

  This unit consists of nine interdisciplinary lessons that introduce the complexity and interconnectedness of the climate change issue. The lessons, while designed as a package, can be used separately. Lesson 1: The Carbon Link - Students take on roles...

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• Empowering Women and Girls

  n this lesson, students will explore the relationship between empowering women and girls and addressing climate change. First, students will view a video on the topic to build understanding and generate areas for further investigation.   Then students...

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• Changing Climates: Lessons for 5-7 year olds

  Today’s children are faced with an escalating environmental crisis.  Climate change has already had significant environmental, social and economic impacts on our world.  Human activity has caused this problem and now our young people must...

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• Our Environmental Footprint

  Through a variety of activities, students learn about different sources of energy and the amount of energy that they consume every day.  This lesson plan contains six short activities: What is Energy? Students learn where electricity comes from...

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• The Global Goals Debate

  Participation in this lesson will build an understanding of the Global Goals for Sustainable Development.  Through debate preparation and participation students will have the opportunity to evaluate the goals and come to a decision as to their relevance...

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• Drilling Down to Sustainability

  In this ESD lesson, students are first asked to consider the most sustainable consumer product choice between a non-locally grown organic and a conventionally-grown, local apple. This engaging problem teases students to think about the economic,...

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• Mapping the Impact

  In this ESD classroom resource students work in small groups to create novel web diagrams that illustrate the array of environmental, social and economic impacts related to the consumption of everyday items such as cell phones, t-shirts or athletic shoes....

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• Tikho's Story: A Quest for Clean Water in Zambia

  Tikho’s Story is an authentic tale about water and sanitation issues from a youth perspective. Tikho is a young girl from Zambia, whose community is working to improve its access to safe drinking water. The slideshow includes short videos made...

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• The Impact of Pollution on Our Planet and Our Lives

  Environmental pollution is a significant problem facing the planet. Environmental pollutants can originate from several sources. Knowing what the different types of pollution are and where they come from can help students understand the potential impact...

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• Global Water and Sanitation Curriculum

  Global Water and Sanitation Awareness Curriculum consists of a number of activities (water usage survey,creative writing, art projects, simulations,action plans) designed to raise student awareness of the unequal availability and use of water, the...

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• Food Miles: Growing Local Food Connections (Elementary)

  Food Miles is comprised of a number of activities that teach students about the food they eat and where it comes from. The resource aims to inspire students to reduce their food miles and emphasize the importance of a healthy diet. Students will explore...

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• BioCellection Technology for Recycling Plastic

  Reduce, Reuse, Recycle! What about Refuse, Replace, Reimagine? In this activity, students will be focusing mainly on the “Reimagine” of the new 3Rs. The resource introduces students to BioCellection’s innovative technology that aims...

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• Trading Textiles

  Trading textiles is a lesson plan built for students to reflect on the impact of the textile industry and the affects on our environment and options they could implement in order to diverting textile waste from landfills. In small groups students will...

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• Fly Away Home!

  Bird migration is explored in this lesson that has students creating paper airplane "birds" that must navigate their way through a fragmented landscape as they fly to their breeding grounds. A dynamic approach supports action as learners recognize how...

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• The Monarch Butterfly

  This multi-lesson unit has students explore concepts including butterfly’s life cycle, pollination, plant growth, and migration. They will recognize that people have complex relationships with Monarchs and the plants which sustain them. Students...

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• Changing Climates - Years 7 & 8

  Students learn about the causes & effects of climate change and its impacts on both human and non-human communities. Special attention is paid to the values and emotions that we are all experiencing in this crisis with the goal of inspiring empowerment...

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• Understanding Dynamic Systems

  This self-paced interactive lesson guides students through the process of identifying and analyzing a system. Students cover systems thinking basics and then examine the dynamics of soil health through videos and online exercises that make the system...

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• Bringing Data to Life 14-16 years

  This well planned resource includes 3 sessions that have students represent real life data in different means. It includes ready to use presentations and handouts, background information and lesson plans. Students will be using Session 1: Learners are...

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• Sustainable Happiness and Health Education Teacher's Guide- Elementary

  The Sustainable Happiness resource illustrates the link between happiness and sustainability. It promotes the fact that we are connected to one another and the natural environment and that our mutual well-being depends on these interconnections. The lesson...

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