Resources

• 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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• The Buffer Zone: Acid-Base Chemistry in the World's Oceans

  This resource features an experiential learning approach that examines the effects of global warming on marine environments. Students apply introductory acid-base theory (including conjugate acids/bases and buffers) in an experiment to simulate ocean...

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• Fertilizers and the Environment

  This resource examines the role of fertilizers in meeting the challenge of feeding a growing world population on a finite amount of arable land. Students will recognize that fertile soil is a limited resource and describe how fertilizers can increase...

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• World of 7 Billion

  In late 2011 world population reached 7 billion. These 11 lessons use this context to address pressing environmental, social and political issues that effect quality of life for present and future generations. 7 Billion: Where do you Stand? Students...

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• 2015 World Population Lesson Plan

  This ESD resource  focuses on world population data as it relates to global social issues with special attention given to women’s empowerment. Students are asked to interpret statistics from around the world to develop an understanding of the...

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• What's in the News?

  Students are asked to analyze print media news using a model  that depicts news events as 'the tip of the iceberg'. Underlying what we read about on the surface are current events patterns and, beneath that, social, political and economic...

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• Sustainable Development. What is It?

  This resource will help students develop a firm understanding of sustainable development.  In Activity one, the students will analyze photos and identify the key issues portrayed that are related to sustainable development.  In Activity...

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• Race to Displace

  In this ESD board game students assume the characteristics of native or introduced plants to experience first-hand the influence of species interactions and changing environmental conditions on ecosystems. It also provides an excellent framework for exploring...

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