• Climate change: Earth's giant game of Tetris

  There's a game of Tetris happening on a global scale: The playing space is planet Earth, and all those pesky, stacking blocks represent carbon dioxide - a greenhouse gas that is piling up ever more rapidly as we burn the fossil fuels that run our cars,...

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• Empowering Learners in a Warming World

  This guide will provide educators with a blend of quality content (resources, websites, books, videos and ideas) and exemplary pedagogy to guide students through an inquiry-driven approach to climate change learning. It draws upon seven key strategies...

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• Listen Up!

  This resource focuses on developing empathetic listening skills in students, so that they are able to effectively communicate with adults when discussing their thoughts and feelings about climate change. The resource is designed in three separate parts: Part...

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• What's the Deal With Carbon?

  The video use engaging illustrations to helps students understand the link between carbon, our increasing use of fossil fuels and the greenhouse effect. This animation describes the carbon cycle and how it is affected by human activity. It asks and answers...

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• Climate Change Around the World

  From extreme weather to threatened ways of life, the effects of climate change are real, and they are happening right now around the globe. This Nutshell video takes a look at just a few of the problems people are facing right now. The video checks off...

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• Introduction to Personal Genetics

  This resource explores new advances in genetics and their potential to impact in significant ways, our personal lives, medical decision making and society. With information provided through video, slide presentations, print articles and case studies,...

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• What is the Future of Earth's Climate?

  Through a series of guided questions, students explore the question, what will Earth's climate be in the future? Students will not be able to answer the question at the end of the lesson, but they will be able to explain how scientists can be certain...

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• The Monarch Butterfly

  This multi-lesson unit has students explore concepts including butterfly’s life cycle, pollination, plant growth, and migration. They will recognize that people have complex relationships with Monarchs and the plants which sustain them. Students...

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• Ecosystem Imbalance in the World

  Students build on their knowledge of individual impacts on the ocean to see how the whole system can react to threats and changes. They examine ways in which human actions throw marine ecosystems out of balance, explore the concept of how impacts can...

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• Seafood Education Kit Elementary

  This resource provides a series of hands-on and inquiry based activities which educate, equip and empower students to be stewards for sustainable food choices and healthy oceans.  In Lesson 1, the students learn about the water cycle through diagrams,...

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• The World Water Game

  The World Water Game is an interactive, hands-on activity to introduce secondary students to the realities of the global water crisis. Students will be split into four teams which represent four different countries (Canada, USA, Bolivia, and Kenya). Each...

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• Seafood Education Kit Middle Years

  The Seafood Education Kit Middle Years is a seven part lesson where students will be inspired to lead advocacy for sustainable seafood. The following lessons will facilitate learning about how we are connected to the ocean, how the food we extract from...

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• Wind Power

  In this video, students learn about the benefits and limitations of wind power technologies and how modern wind turbines transform wind energy into electrical energy by capturing wind to turn an electrical generator. Students will also learn that wind...

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• How Much Plastic Waste do we Create?

  In this short video, students will take a look at how a cargo ship hit a storm and tumbled over, releasing plastic into the ocean, 28 800 bath toys to be exact. The bath toys started to wash ashore in multiple parts of the world, but most ended up in...

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• Branching Out for a Green Economy

  This short animated film, narrated by actor/director/producer and Academy Award winner Sir David Attenborough, highlights the role forests can play in national development, a green economy and climate change. It also reviews the current situation and...

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• People and Plants

  These outdoor activities and workbook aim to connect students with their local environment.  They will learn about local wild plants and traditional and modern uses of plants in everyday life. In Activity 1, the students will learn the parts of a...

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• Water Crisis: Local & Global Issues

  Starting with the question ‘how much water do you use in a day?’ students investigate water consumption, water quality, water scarcity, access to clean drinking water and other relevant issues including how climate change is affecting the...

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• Nations United

  This powerful presentation examines the Sustainable Development Goals and the necessary steps required to achieve them.  The film presents detailed, often passionate documentation of four current areas of crisis we face that must be addressed if...

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• Protecting Populations

  In Protecting Populations, students will try to answer the big question: How sustainable is our use of our marine resources? To do this, they will watch an introductory video by youth host, Holly, and Boris Worm. They will join local fishermen and scientists...

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• Evolving Ecosystems

  In Evolving Ecosystems, students will try to answer the big question: What actions can we take to protect ecosystems? To do this, they will watch an introductory video by youth host, Anisha, and Boris Worm on an expedition in the Nova Scotia’s Bay...

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