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• Conservation Kids - Alternative Transportation

  This video highlights all of the fun and active ways that kids can travel without a car.  The film also contains facts about exercise, greenhouse gases and the number of cars on the road in Canada.  The engaging youth ambassadors will motivate...

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• Arctic Survivor

  The resource offers a fun and interactive activity to introduce students to the impacts of climate change on animal populations. Using a game format, students role-play polar bears and their interactions with the habitat components of food, water, shelter...

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• Raia and the Eco Guardians - Super Rangers

  This video portrays a remarkable nine year old who was motivated to take action against the litter problem in her BC community.  Raia gathered friends, parents and the municipality into her Eco Guardians club that conducts weekly clean ups of local...

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• Frogs: The Thin Green Line

  This video explores how agricultural pesticides like Atrazine are impacting frog populations in California.  Noted amphibian researcher Tyrone Hayes discusses the fascinating yet troublesome ability of these substances to act as endocrine disruptors. ...

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• Sid the Science Kid - Beautiful Trees

  The class will soon be singing along and enjoying this fun music video that highlights trees.  Sid, Gerald and Dad are on a backyard camp-out when they launch into the lyrics that identify all of the wonderful things trees provide us.  This...

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• Green Math, Engineering and Technology

  This ESD unit places mathematics at the forefront of a comprehensive critical thinking project. Students must design a “green” building, applying both math skills and sustainability principles. The goal of the resource is to increase awareness...

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• All You Need For A Sustainability Assembly

  This resource contains the script and descriptions for four 30- minute assemblies relating to food, waste and climate change. Encouraging audience participation and volunteer helpers, the assemblies use powerful metaphors to raise awareness of how everyday...

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• Bats

  In this short presentation developed by the National Wildlife Federation for Environment Canada’s Hinterland Who’s Who series, students are introduced to these unique mammals. Close-up images effectively demonstrate how bats maneuver, find...

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• Meet A Plant: Up Close & Personal

  Students walk through a designated area such as the schoolyard or a local park and choose a plant they wish to observe.  After carefully examining the plant, they note their observations following the guided observation process presented in class....

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• The Urban Jungle

  This resource provides a simple, easy to organize outdoor activity which allows students the opportunity to discover and describe trees in the urban environment.  Students take a walking trip around their local community; they sketch a map of one...

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• Fueling the Future: Evaluating the sustainability of biofuels

   In this activity, students will assess the sustainability of different biofuels. Students will be asked to evaluate how the life cycle (production, transport, and use) of each biofuel feedstock impacts the economy, the environment, and society....

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• Go Green!

  This outdoor sensory activity encourages students to observe and explore in the forest. The resource focuses on the variety of colours as an entry point into a greater awareness and appreciation of biodiversity. Students receive paint sample cards with...

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• Smartphones and Sustainability

  Smartphones and Sustainability explores the life of a Smartphone from the extraction of raw materials through the processing, distribution, usage, and disposal.

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• Globalization

  The world is becoming more and more interconnected. Globalization changes how people consume, work and live almost everywhere on the world. Today, many economic, political, cultural or ecological relationships are not explainable from a national perspective. But...

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• The Soil

  The Soil is part of the series, Nature is Speaking, in which the voices of a number of celebrities are used to "speak" for nature. The central message in The Soil and in the other videos in the series is that human beings are part of nature; that nature...

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• The Ocean

  The Ocean is part of the series, Nature is Speaking, in which the voices of a number of celebrities are used to "speak" for nature. The central message in The Ocean and in the other videos in the series is that human beings are part of nature;...

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• Why Vaccines Work

  Why Vaccines Work offers students a dose of reality about vaccines. The video explores the origin of vaccines, explains how they work, makes the case for their success, and argues for their continued use to combat disease. 

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• Ethanol Biofuel

  This video segment, adopted from NOVA explores the potential of ethanol as a cleaner-building fuel alternative to gasoline and the efforts to produce it more efficiently. Today, most ethanol is made from corn kernels. But converting corn into ethanol...

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• A Walk on the Tundra

  This delightful story about family traditions portrays young Inuujaq who sees nothing exciting about accompanying her grandmother on a walk into the tundra.  Lagging behind the old woman and grumbling about being hungry, Inuujaq is surprised when...

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• Tree of Life

  This non-fiction book provides a fascinating introduction to the way we classify and sort the millions of living organisms found on our planet.  Ecological interdependence is visually represented by a single tree and students will be surprised to...

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