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• Solve a Pollution Mystery

  Groundwater contamination can have devastating consequences on environmental and human health. Non-point source pollutants are difficult to track but point source pollution can often be readily traced to the cause. In this lesson, students become environmental...

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• Climate Change: Creating Solutions for our Future

  This resource focuses on the history of climate change, its present day causes and consequences, how human activities are interconnected with sustaining biodiversity, and the role that students can play in their community to cut down on greenhouse...

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• Making Sense of World Conflicts

  This collection of 8 lesson plans draws on vast amounts of source material. Case studies and demographic information by country help students investigate the complex subject of conflict around the world. The lessons are best completed as a set...

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• Antibiotic Resistance

  This resource contains a series of lessons that explore the development, use and misuse of antibiotics as well as the problems associated with an increase in antibiotic resistance. Students are asked to promote awareness in their communities about these...

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• Finding, Gathering, Saving Seeds

  Students take part in a year long investigation of saving and packaging seeds from a variety of garden and wild plants. Students will: harvest dried seeds from wild and garden plants. investigate growing flowers and plants to predict where seeds will...

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• Our Environmental Footprint - Water Consumption

  “Water Consumption” is one of a series of lessons that uses active learning to teach young children concepts associated with understanding their ecological footprint.  In this activity students explore the water cycle to develop awareness...

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• Water Crisis: Local & Global Issues

  Starting with the question ‘how much water do you use in a day?’ students investigate water consumption, water quality, water scarcity, access to clean drinking water and other relevant issues including how climate change is affecting the...

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• Creating a Three Sisters Garden

  Students investigate the Native tradition of planting beans, corn and squash together, or what was commonly referred to as "Three Sisters", as they explore gardening and planting. Students will: plant an indoor or outdoor Three Sisters Garden and maintain...

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• Our Air- Quest for Quality

  This resource illustrates the relationship between air quality and human health.  Students learn about air quality issues through discussions, research, and role play, connect this knowledge to their own personal health and explore solutions for...

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• The Impacts of Climate Change on Maple Trees

  In this lesson plan, students will have the opportunity to investigate the functions of the many structures present within the maple tree. They will also understand the relationship between sweet water harvesting and climate conditions. During the first...

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• Get Real on Climate

  The resource consists of three learning activities originally designed to help students prepare for a high school climate change competition held in conjunction with Copenhagen 2009.  Although the competition has passed, these activities provide...

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• Meet the Invaders

  This classroom resource is the second of a four-unit series designed to raise student awareness of the problems associated with non-native, invasive species.  The unit uses simulations, art, word games, a dramatic presentation, and science activities...

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• Black Bear Ecology-Interactions within Ecosystems

  Students take a close look at the ecology of the Black Bear to demonstrate the interactions that characterize ecosystems.  Four highly engaging lessons explore a number of key ecological concepts. In lesson one students particpate in a game of...

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• Rainforest Alliance-El Salvador

  This series of lesson plans explores the important role that coffee forests play in the annual migration of birds. Lesson One:  Biodiversity.  Students learn about the importance of Biodiversity and compare the variety of species  in their...

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• Making Waves! Protecting Ontario's Aquatic Habitats

  A series of sequential lessons designed to help students and teachers understand the impacts of invasive species on habitats and ecosystems, and provide tools and strategies to help stop the spread of invasive species. Students will: create a song to...

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• Consumer Choices & the Natural World (Chapter 3)

  In this comprehensive, interdisciplinary guide, middle school students learn how their consumer choices affect the environment and how they can make a difference by buying differently. This 300-page toolkit, presented in a 3-ring binder, includes an Educator's...

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• How the Fur Flies

  This comprehensive inquiry explores the world of the genetics and pharmaceutical biotechnology through a simulation of a 'real world' veterinary health issue. The resource centers around the diagnosis and treatment of a cat with several health issues...

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• Big Picture Project: A Beautiful Planet

  The Big Picture Project provides a unique perspective on the changing earth through the eyes of an astronaut and empowers students to take small actions in their everyday lives that will have major impact on the planet.  Students watch the trailer...

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• Chemistry With A Conscience

  This green chemistry resource places students in the role of 'materials scientists' tasked with creating an environmentally-friendly shampoo. Green Chemistry stresses the use of safe, energy efficient, non-toxic products and processes as a practical...

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• Traditional Knowledge

  First Nations people have always been intimately connected to the land and water that provides so much.  There is a deep understanding of the seasonal cycles of natural resources that is passed from generation to generation.  This traditional...

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