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• A Reassuring Fable

  The video suggests that our inclination to embrace reassuring myths about our place and role in the biosphere has been destructive of both ourselves and the planet. It further argues that we must accept hard truths rather than reassuring faith; that knowledge...

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• Ozzy Ozone (En)

  Ozzy Ozone and Alberta the Albatross take students on a voyage of discovery to learn exactly what is attacking the ozone layer. This animated video informs students on the role the ozone layer plays in protecting us from the sun’s rays, the natural...

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• Fresh Water Scarcity

  Introduces a number of issues related to water availability and consumption – relative abundance and scarcity of fresh water; personal use versus global use; the common good versus profit.  The video is accompanied by a number of additional...

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• Investigating Bat Adaptations

  Investigating Bat Adaptations leads students to learn about the adaptations that increase a bat's chances of finding food and surviving in a particular habitat while also increasing the student's knowledge of the different species of bats in the world. In...

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• Climate Change and Your Ecological Area

  In Climate Chance and Your Ecological Area, students will investigate interrelationships among plants and animals in an ecosystem and explore how climate change might affect those interrelationships and the natural community as a whole. By the end of...

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• Protect Our Oceans

  Legendary ocean researcher Sylvia Earle shares astonishing images of the ocean - and shocking statistics about its rapid decline. Earle believes that with knowing comes caring ...but first we have to know about "the blue heart of the planet" and the threats...

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• Shrinking Habitat

  This interactive activity provides an opportunity for students to physically map out a diverse forested area in their classroom, then slowly reduce the space to simulate a loss of habitat and the impact this has on various species. The activity begins...

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• Inuit Observations on Climate Change

  This video documents the impact of climate change from an Inuit perspective. The residents of Sachs Harbour on Banks Island in Canada's High Arctic, have witnessed dramatic changes in their landscape and their way of life. Exotic insects, fish and...

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• Welcome to the Anthropocene

  Viewers are taken on a 3-minute journey through the last 250 years of our history, from the start of the Industrial Revolution to the Rio+20 Summit. The video charts the growth of humanity as a global force equivalent in their impact on major geological...

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• Nature Walk

  In this activity, students will familiarize themselves with the living and the non-living things in nature. The class will listen to a read aloud of seasonal story and then anticipate what they may encounter on their nature walk.  The class will...

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• How is Climate Change Shaping this World?

  In this resource, students will explore and understand the effects of the climate change crisis from different perspectives. Starting from a global overview, to national and then to a local perspective, students will notice the change in scope and approach...

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• Introduction to Water

  This dramatic video, choreographed to powerful music, introduces the student to the wonder and miracle of water. It is designed as a "motivatonal trailer" and as a visual "introduction" to this amazing substance.

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• Thirst

  This is a probing documentary into the deplorable conditions of drinking water in northern Ontario First Nations communities. Over 200 First Nations communities in Canada have unclean, unsafe drinking water. The reasons for this on-going tragedy are effectively...

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• 7 Billion: Are You Typical?

  The video is part of National Geographic's series on world population occasioned by the arrival of the world's 7 billionth person on October 31, 2011. The series (available as a free app) explores the challenges - and potential solutions - for coping...

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• 7 Billion and Counting

  Global population trends result from varying levels of population growth and decline among countries. This video provides a simple and compelling overview of population trends that have created a world of 7 billion people.  In addressing the question,...

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• Come Out Muskrats!

  This picture book with its simple text fosters an appreciation for nature and wetlands.  The muskrats are urged to come out of their house and spend time in the marsh.  They finally emerge to eat cattails, dry their fur and swim around, all...

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• Malala A Brave Girl From Pakistan

  When a young girl triumphed over a brutal attack by the Taliban, her courage resonated around the globe.  This book brings the stories of Malala Yousafzai and Iqbal Masih to young readers through simple text and illustrations that eloquently portray...

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• The Lorax

  The now remorseful Once-ler, our faceless, bodiless narrator, tells the story himself. Long ago this enterprising villain chances upon a place filled with wondrous Truffula Trees, Swomee-Swans, Brown Bar-ba- loots, and Humming-Fishes. Bewitched by the...

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• The Great Kapok Tree

  According to Publisher's Weekly, this book combines illustrations that reveal a naturalist's reverence for beauty with a myth-like story that explains the ecological importance of saving the rain forests. The text is not a didactic treatise, but a simply...

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• If The World Were A Village

  First published to wide acclaim in 2002, this eye-opening book has since become a classic, promoting "world-mindedness" by imagining the world's population, all 7+ billion of us, as a village of just 100 people. Now the book has been newly revised with...

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