Resources

• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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