Resources

• 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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• Tracking Winter Animals!

  Students participate in a series of engaging outdoor activities to learn the different methods by which animals move and how to identify local animals and wildlife from the tracks they leave behind. In the first activity, the students learn the different...

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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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• Explorers for the Global Goals

  Explorers for the Global Goals allows younger students the opportunity to explore simple concepts around global issues and develop skills for life. The activities in the resource introduce students to the Global Goals through guided discussions and shared...

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• Sustainable Logging

  The video serves as an introduction to the concept of sustainable forestry, which it defines as striking a balance between the needs of the people and the health of our forests. It serves also to introduce the concept of third party certification as it...

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• Interconnected

  In this fun simulation game, students learn about the importance of Earth’s ecosystems, resources, and our duty as global citizens to protect it. Students participate in a board game modelled after Sustainable Development Goal 15, Life on Land....

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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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• Weslandia

  What do the children you know usually do when school is out for the summer? Go crazy with boredom? Head poolside with friends? Plan a self-sufficient civilization with its own staple food crop? That is precisely how Wesley decides to spend his summer...

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• Trapper Boy

  Set in a 1920s coal-mining town, Trapper Boy is the story of thirteen year-old JW Donaldson, a good student with big plans for college and adventure. As the school–year ended in 1926, JW was looking forward to a typical summer of fun with his...

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• Stolen Words

  Stolen Words is storybook that shares the beautiful relationship between a little girl and her grandfather. While spending time together the little girl asks her grandfather how to say something in his Cree language.  He admits to her that he does...

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• What Does Peace Feel Like?

  This uniquely illustrated book offers an answer to the question, “What Does Peace Look Like?”  The answers are provided by students from an international school in Rome and convey images of peace through the eyes of a child.  The...

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• Where Once There Was a Wood

  This uniquely illustrated picture book explores the abundance of creatures that once inhabited a natural area before its conversion to a housing development.  The text is suited for young readers  but the concepts are appropriate for more advanced...

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