Resources

• The Children's Parliament

  The Children’s Parliament resource kit teaches democracy and citizenry skills to students while giving them an official forum to voice their own concerns and solutions to local and global issues. The aim of the project is to inform youth about political...

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• Nelson Mandela: Biography and Autobiography

  "Nelson Mandela" is the last of a series of lessons under the general subject of Global Citizenship and Literacy. These series' of lessons demonstrate how Global Citizenship can be incorporated into literacy. The lessons are structured so that students...

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• The Boreal Forest: A Global Legacy- Vol. 7

  This resource provides 8 lessons (primary to grade 12) on topics related to the Boreal Forest including the role of forests in sheltering and supporting wildlife species in Canada. The lessons follow the Pan-Canadian curriculum and...

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• Good-bye poverty, hello biodiversity

  This ESD resource is the third in a series of children's books that explores diversity. It explains the link between declining biodiversity and world poverty. Suitable for the science classroom, it focuses on the relationship between environmental stewardship...

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• The Mystery of the Missing Hummingbirds

  The Mystery of the Missing Hummingbirds models children asking questions about the natural world and conducting science investigations to explore the world around them. This classroom resource introduces environmental education  to students at a...

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• The Learning Circle (Ages 4 to 7)

  This primary resource is the first in a series of four classroom guides about First Nations people in Canada. The resource is organized in thematic units, each with its own teaching activities. The themes include: Storytelling, The Seasons, Sharing, Colours,...

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• Indigenous Knowledge and Cultural Weather Perspectives

  This four lesson resource was designed to support the Science 10 weather unit.  Lessons examine cultural perspectives on weather and weather predictions with an emphasis on the aboriginal oral history of weather translating. Four activities are included...

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• What is it Like to Be an Immigrant Separated from Your Family?

  Students build empathy for refugees and immigrants by learning about the experience of some families separated at the southern border of the U.S. in 2018. Students then hear a poem and write their own imaginative poems to convey their learning. As suggested...

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• Feathers & Fur, Scales & Skin

  Feathers and Fur, Scales and Skin is part of a compilation entitled Keepers of the Animals which provides an integrated approach to the concepts of wildlife ecology and environmental and stewardship issues concerning animals, habitat, and natural history....

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• Mini Lesson for Freedom Road

  Freedom Road is a documentary series about life in the Anishinaabe community of Shoal Lake 40, which straddles the Ontario/Manitoba border near Kenora. The activities in this mini-lesson will help students understand the dehumanizing consequences that...

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• Whooping Cranes

  This web-based resource is designed to engage students in a study of wildlife migration by tracking the flights of whooping cranes. Canadian students track, monitor, and study whooping crane sightings along with students in the United States. These flights...

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• A Loonie For Your Thoughts

  This classroom resource explores the dependence of living things on their surrounding environment and the importance of maintaining healthy ecosystems. Students learn about the different life requirements of the Common Loon and are introduced to the importance...

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• Labelling Literacy

  This document will provide teachers of grades 4-6 with activities that will help students understand information provided on food labels. The document is divided into three sections, each aimed at one of the three grades. Each section contains five or...

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• Humans and the Environment

  Students consider the ethics of human relationships with the environment. Specifically, they consider how practices such as the genetic modification of plants and animals involve a range of ethical positions towards non-human life. Students work in groups...

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• Treat it Right!® Wastewater

  In Treat It Right! Wastewater students are challenged to think about how to change their actions and those of their families to protect the environment by learning about what to flush and dump down the drain. Students learn how water is managed and treated...

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• Moth, the Fire Dancer

  Moth, The Fire Dancer is part of a compilation entitled Keepers of the Night which provides an integrated approach to teaching the mystery and fascination of the animals, plants, and insects that inhabit the world of night. Through the use of Native North...

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• From Issue to Opportunity

  This is a good introductory resource to help students define global issues and understand their interconnections.Students develop criteria for determining what makes an issue global in scope, brainstorm and list global issues, group (i.e. rain forest...

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• Discoveries at Willow Creek

  Discoveries at Willow Creek is based on a storybook approach that focuses the attention of young readers on the natural changes that take place in and around a creek.  On a second visit to Willow Creek, the GLOBE Kids characters discover why the...

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• Canada's Forests and Wetlands: Our Natural Water Filters- Vol. 6 (Gr.9-12)

  Canada’s Forest & Wetlands: Our Natural Water Filters, Volume 6 is a K to 12 teaching kit that explores the role our forests play in sustaining freshwater resources.  The final five of the eight lessons in the kit are appropriate for use...

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• Penguins on Thin Ice

  Penguins on Thin Ice is an eclectic web site put together by the non-profit organization, Irthlingz Arts Based Environmental Education and offers a musical review about climate change. This musical revue consists of a compilation of songs and scripts...

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