Resources

• Exploring Water

  Exploring water allows the students to explore the concept of water by thinking, feeling and connecting to water through reflection questions and hands-on activities. The students will track their daily water use with a ready-made chart in the first activity....

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• Billy and the Brown Out

  Young Billy adores his wasteful electronic gadgets and is utterly dismayed when the power goes out in the middle of his best video game.  As his mother explains the brown-out, Billy suddenly realizes that he can help save electricity.  Once...

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• Food Chain Game

  In this activity, students will get to mimic the resident killer whale food chain. Students will be assigned a marine animal and get a recycled plastic bag that represents the stomach. Herring will find plankton markers, salmon will eat the herring, and...

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• AQUA: Conserve Water

  Aqua learns the meaning behind the word conservation as she teachers her family how to save water.  Even Aqua's pesky little brother soon realizes that saving water is good for the environment.  The whole family celebrates their smart choices...

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• Exploring Waste

  The resource includes a number of activities that explore the concept of zero waste and how nature may provide direction in moving us to a zero-waste society. It also helps students distinguish between organic and inorganic waste and how they might reduce...

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• I Love Potatoes

  I Love Potatoes is an adventure strategy game designed to let students have fun while talking about sustainable development and social innovation.  It's an adventure game that takes students through the journey of social change leading to discussion...

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• Into Nature: A Guide to Teaching in Nearby Nature

  The purpose of this outdoor activity is to enhance students’ awareness of human activity on biodiversity. The lesson aims to illustrate the differences in plant diversity between natural areas and human-managed areas and have students consider the...

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• Climate Change Dodgeball

  Climate Change Dodgeball is a fast-paced game to show how increasing greenhouse gases causes global warming. In this game, students will be divided into 2 groups. Students inside the circle are Earth and wear blue bibs. Those forming the circle will wear...

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• Sky Tree

  This book encourages students to look at the natural world around them through a different lens. Text and pictures are used to follow the journey of a single tree throughout an entire year.  The author weaves thoughts and emotions into the text...

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• The Curious Garden

  In this whimsical tale a young boy transforms a dreary city from a lifeless concrete landscape to a bountiful green space by nurturing nature.  Liam's passion for gardening soon galvanizes other residents into helping him realize his dream of a city...

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• The Black Book of Colors

  This book strives to develop understanding and appreciation for diversity.  It  includes detailed descriptions of objects that are depicted on black pages.  The objects described are illustrated only with embossed lines that force readers...

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• I am Malala

  In this fascinating memoir, Malala Yousafzait describes her journey from a young girl who wanted an education to an internationally recognized Nobel Peace Prize winner.  The simple, happy times at her parent's school in the Swat Valley of Pakistan...

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• The Name Jar

  Unhei has just arrived with her family from Korea and is starting school. Her name is pronounced Yoon-hye, which means grace, but she feels awkward about it after some teasing on the school bus. She decides to choose a North American name and her classmates...

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• Marianthe’s Story

  The author presents two equally moving themes in Marianthe's story, the first explores her arrival to America and the second involves an explanation of why she came.  In her first days at school Mari struggles with English until she realizes that...

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• Empty

  A worldwide energy crisis has brought fuel shortages and blackouts to the community of Sage Valley where Gwen and her friends struggle to survive.  After making a life changing discovery Gwen is faced with the difficult decision of keeping her secret...

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• Counting on Fall

  This delightful picture book uses nature to engage students in learning about number concepts including more or less, counting and simple addition.  The reader is first asked to imagine that nature can count and use math like we do.  Then on...

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• Shaping up Summer

  In this fourth book of the "Math in Nature" collection,  geometric concepts are explored through captivating pictures and poetic text that typify this series for young readers.  The interactive experience asks students to answer math questions...

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• One Well: The Story of Water on Earth

  "Without water, nothing can survive." The urgent conservation message in this clear, handsome, oversized picture book is rooted in the book's theme that all water on earth is connected and that "the water you drank today may have rained down on the Amazon...

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• Never Cry Wolf

  This biographical novel by one of Canada's most acclaimed authors describes how a scientific assignment to study wolves in the Northwest Territories transformed a nieve, young biologist into a fierce and passionate advocate for wildlife.  When Farley...

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• Beatrice’s Goat

  This picture book is based on the true account of a young Ugandan girl and her family who benefit from the gift of a goat provided by the Heifer Project International.  Beatrice is told that the goat is a “lucky gift” which proves true...

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