• The Sustainable Development Goals

  In this short video, the Sustainable Development Goals (SDG's) are introduced to students. They are presented as the new framework for sustainable development and explain that human prosperity must go hand in hand with protecting the planet. The history...

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• Treaty Tales

  Treaty Tales trilogy is an excellent series to introduce primary students to the concept of treaties in Canada and the importance of honouring them. The stories provide introductory information about Canada's First People, particularly the Anishinaabe...

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• Who Can Live Here?

  Students assess the fitness of a habitat for a specific purpose. The lesson is designed to introduce students to concepts of ecology, habitat care, and species identification. Students will be able to: Locate habitat elements on a specific...

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• Maple Trees and Marmots

  Maple Trees and Marmots is a role playing game for younger elementary students where students learn the effects of climate change on animals and plants.  There are two activities in the resource: the first focuses on animals and is intended for K-2...

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• A Flush Away from the Field

  In this inquiry students explore the relationship between their everyday lives and farming.  The connections among human consumption, pollution, waste mitigation and agriculture are established through a number of varied activities arranged in four...

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• Ecological Handprint

  The goal of this activity is to inform and encourage students to take individual and community action to address climate change.   It assumes students have an understanding of global warming and the major ways in which humans are impacting our...

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• Climate Balloons

  This activity does a very good job in illustrating how the lifestyle of North Americans contributes to climate change and threatens the survival of those living in the developing world.  Half of the students in class represent people living in poor...

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• A Leaf Lunch

  Students examine decomposition processes in a package of leaves placed in a stream or pond. This lesson extends the exploration of energy flow in ecosystems. Students learn to identify species of invertebrate decomposers and they observe the conversion...

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• Observing Change

  In this outdoor activity, students will complete a series of neighborhood walks with an observation chart over a period of a few months to predict and observe changes in living and non-living components of the local ecosystems in order to understand the...

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• Mr. Bullfrog

  Students participate in a game in which native frogs and bullfrogs compete for shelter, food, and water (habitat components). This game teaches students about the relationship between an animal and its habitat, and what effect introduced animals can have...

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• How Will We Fix Climate Change

  This lesson is based on a 20 minute podcast from the CBC series “Tai Asks Why” through which 7th grader Tai Poole tries to find answers to some of life’s biggest questions.   In this episode, Tai talks with his friends, a NASA...

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• Buy, Use, Toss?

  Buy, Use, Toss? is a two-week unit that provides multiple entry points to help students think critically about consumption. This series of ten thoroughly planned lessons lead your students through an exploration of the systems of producing and consuming...

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• The Impacts of Environmental Disturbances on the Population Dynamics of an Ecosystem

  In this research activity, students will apply what they learned from conducting population censuses. They will research a species at risk in Canada to develop both an understanding of the complexities associated with species and ecosystem management...

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• Slippery Sleuths

  Students explore water quality concepts and inference in this lesson. They discuss common ways to describe, measure, or estimate water quality and the importance of water quality to the organisms that live in lakes or streams. First, students play a game...

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• BioCellection Technology for Recycling Plastic

  Reduce, Reuse, Recycle! What about Refuse, Replace, Reimagine? In this activity, students will be focusing mainly on the “Reimagine” of the new 3Rs. The resource introduces students to BioCellection’s innovative technology that aims...

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• Greenhouse Gas Game

  Through interactive play on a life-sized game board, students are introduced to three of the most common greenhouse gases and their role in the natural and enhanced greenhouse effect. Teams add or remove greenhouse gases from their shared atmosphere to...

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• AMAR

  Amar is a 14 year-old boy who lives in a large city in one of the poorest states in India.  He is the main breadwinner for his mother and two siblings.  This short documentary follows Amar from sunrise to sunset as he goes about his daily routine. ...

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• The Fall of Flint

  In this photo essay, photographer Matt Black portrays the town of Flint and its residents as they persevere through the water crisis. A water crisis has severely impacted the residents since 2014. In this lesson, students view photos documenting the Flint,...

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• Circular Economy

  What do we mean by circular economy? In this lesson, students will be comparing our waste system and economy to the circle of life. This lesson will help students understand that machine-made objects do not follow a circular process when disposing of...

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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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