• Our Changing Climate for Grades 6 to 12

  Six interdisciplinary lessons offer a thorough description of climate change basics.  Attention is paid to foundational concepts, including atmosphere composition, heat-trapping gases, the greenhouse effect and global warming.  Activities examine...

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• Earth: It's Everybody's Home

  In this climate education activity, students use Google Earth tools to explore our natural world and learn more about youth climate activists and the work they are doing to stand up for our planet.  Students will: explore what it means to be an...

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• Stories of Climate Change

  This resource focuses on climate justice, climate resilience and climate adaptation. Through activities and case studies, students reflect on how climate change has affected the lives of some of the world’s poorest people.  Lessons include: Where...

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• What is Climate Change-Climate Kids

  What is Climate Change is one of six 'big questions' students can investigate using the Climate Kids website. This lesson explains the science behind why our climate is changing and why it is important. Links to short readings, video descriptions, scientific...

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• Food for Thought

  Food For Thought is part of a series of lessons designed by Earth Rangers. These lessons offer a series of hands-on and interactive activities that are curriculum linked and broaden the scope of environmental education in the classroom.  Food For...

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• A Call to Climate Learning for Climate Education

  In this video, a boy named Krrish talks to the audience about the importance of climate action. He visits his friends via technology who are youth activists around the globe and they share their stories of working towards reversing the effects of climate...

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• Global Schools Program Grade 5

  In this resource, students will learn about diversity, culture, and communication through the lens of religion. By learning about the role of religion in their own lives, communities, and across the world, students will come to appreciate the richness...

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• Climate Breakdown

  This resource provides an interdisciplinary study of the climate crisis.  It includes a wide range of learning activities supported by links to an impressive array of resources.  Topics include: The facts about climate change Our response to...

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• Global Schools Program Grade 6

  In this grade 6, five part lesson, students will adopt a critical lens towards concepts of community and the value of diversity within a community. They will begin to explore how privilege, inequality, power dynamics, and social justice play into their...

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• Global Schools Program Grade 7

  In this resource, students will start to conceptualize themselves as changemakers. By learning from their peers and other members of the community, students will begin to make plans for how they can make the world around them a better place.  Lesson...

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• Global Schools Program Grade 8

  Through a variety of activities and discussions, students will explore the theme of injustice: what is means, how it manifests in everyday life, and how it contributes to larger social dynamics. Students will also evaluate our shared values, discuss why...

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• Stand Up! Speak Up!

  Stand Up! Speak Up! provides a simple introduction to activism through the eyes of a young girl who attends a climate change march and becomes inspired to do her part to help the planet. By speaking up and encouraging her community to get involved, the...

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• Think Big! Collective Action for Climate Change

  In this lesson the students learn the difference between individual action and collective action through a variety of activities that range from videos to small group work. In the first activity the students watch a 5 minute video that takes them around...

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• Behind the Barcodes

  This resource was developed by Oxfam UK to encourage students to take action in addressing the suffering that exists within the global food supply system as part of its Behind the Barcodes campaign.  Students are presented with a number of questions...

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• Community Conversations for Climate Change

  In this two-part lesson plan, the students will work towards an understanding of climate change and then engage in a conversation with community guests representing different age groups and generations in an effort to understand the changes that have...

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• Need for Seed

  The fascinating world of plant adaptations is explored in this interactive lesson focused on seeds and seed dispersal. Students investigate characteristics of plants in relationship to their environment by creating their own unique seed that can be transported...

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• Fly Away Home!

  Bird migration is explored in this lesson that has students creating paper airplane "birds" that must navigate their way through a fragmented landscape as they fly to their breeding grounds. A dynamic approach supports action as learners recognize how...

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• Is It Really Recylable?

  Too often we toss trash into blue bins without really considering if it can actually be reused.  This short animation introduces young people to plastic recycling symbols by explaining how manufacturing and chemical content affect the disposability...

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• Fill the Bill

  Birds are remarkable in their variety and adaptations.  This lesson introduces students to the types of beaks that enable different bird species to feed on particular foods.  As they use household objects to mimic feeding activity, students...

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• Understand Goal 8

  The video introduces students to the nature of work and its value to both the individual and society. It emphasizes everyone’s right to a good job and the need to ensure workers are provided with a healthy work environment and fair compensation....

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