Resources

• 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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• Even the Walls

  Through the eyes of the people being impacted, this film chronicles the redevelopment of an inner city neighbourhood, the displacement of its low income residents and the ultimate loss of a community that has nurtured and supported its members for decades. ...

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• Cloudwatchers

  Cloudwatchers is an easy to use resource that exposes young students to the different cloud formations and their meanings. The resource employs inquiry-based learning with questioning, exploration and self-discovery. Through a variety of activities, students...

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• Adapting To A Changing Climate

  This program offers a comprehensive examination of climate adaptation.  After identifying the role of mitigation in slowing the impact of climate change, the video shifts its attention to adaptation.  Interviews with climate scientists effectively...

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• Bird Migration Game

  This activity brings home the concept of how far and how arduous this annual migration is for birds. It is a role play activity of sorts where the participants are specific bird species that must leave their breeding ground get to their wintering ground...

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• Micro-Hiking

  Micro-hiking invites students to go on an outdoors 'mini hike' and explore a very small (one metre!) habitat through the eyes of a mini-person of their choice. The mini-person can be as simple as a stick figure made of toothpicks but should be no larger...

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• The Carbon Dioxide Game

  The Carbon Dioxide Game is a fun, active way to explain the greenhouse effect and human contribution to global climate change. The activity is played in several rounds. For round one, two students will be CO2 molecules and will be placed in the Earth's...

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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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• 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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• A River Ran Wild

  This book is the true story of the environmental history of the Nashua River in Massachusetts.  Almost 7000 years ago the Algonquin people discovered the beautiful river valley, along with its abundant natural resources.  They settled along...

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• A Cool Drink of Water

  This book presents beautiful photographs of  people from around the world gathering water.  The text that accompanies each photograph is minimal, but supplies the basic message that “Everyone everywhere…enjoys a drink of water.” ...

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• Iqbal and his Ingenious Idea

  During the monsoon season, Iqbal's mother must cook over an open flame inside the family home in spite of the fact that it makes some of the family members sick.  When Iqbal hears of the district science fair and its theme of "sustainability", he...

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• A Little Peace

  This book presents beautiful photographs of people around the globe doing their part to contribute to a peaceful world.  The text is simple, yet efficient in sending the message to students that it is not just the responsibility of  adults...

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• Searching for Cicadas

  Searching for Cicadas is a recent addition to the Nature Storybook series that present factual information within a storybook frame. A young boy and his grandfather set off for an overnight trip in a local camping area. They plant to look for cicadas...

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• Whoever You Are

  This book effectively delivers a powerful message that despite all of the differences that people may have, we are all the same deep down.  The author explains that there are children all over the world who may look different, live in different...

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• Something Beautiful

  This book begins with a young girl reflecting on the “ugliness” she sees when looking around her inner city neighborhood.  In her attempt to find something positive within this urban landscape, she polls those around her on the things...

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• Henry’s Freedom Box

  The books tells the true story of Henry Brown, a slave who mailed himself to freedom.  After watching his family be sold as slaves,  Brown visits an abolitionist who figures out a way to protect Henry from the impending slave auction.  He...

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