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• What Do You Do When Something Wants To Eat You?

  With its attractive illustrations and appealing text this book highlights the incredible diversity of our natural world.  Each featured species has developed a unique adaptation to help it avoid detection or capture.  From the ink cloud of the...

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• The Orange Shirt Story: The True Story of Orange Shirt Day

  Six-year-old Phyllis was excited about heading off to her new school, especially when her grandmother purchased the bright orange shirt, she chose to wear on her first day.  Upon entering St. Joseph's Mission School, Phyllis's excitement turned to...

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• Where Butterflies Grow

  This story takes the reader on a journey through the life of a Black Swallowtail butterfly.  Children are asked to imagine themselves inside a tiny egg that hatches into a larva.  Then the book describes what it would feel like to live as a...

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• Count Down to Fall

  The simple rhymes of this delightful book use fall leaves to teach children how to count backwards from ten to one.  Each colourful illustration includes pictures of the tree being described and features a wildlife species that depends on forest...

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• The Visible Girls

  Sine lives in Papuau, New Guinea with her mother and her special invisible friend Kaimon.  After stopping a man from hurting a woman in their village the two young girls realize they can stand up against violence and discrimination.  As support...

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• One Hen: How One Small Loan Made a Big Difference

  This book is based on the life story of Kwabena Darko who rose from poverty to form the Sinapi Abu (Mustard Seed) Trust, which is part of the global nonprofit organization Opportunity International. Kojo has to leave school to help his mother collect...

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• The Watcher

  This book is based on the biography of famed researcher Jane Goodall, who lived with the chimpanzees and became such a dedicated spokesperson for this species.  The book begins with a young Jane spending hours watching chickens, worms, birds and...

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• Leaves

  In this picture book a young bear observes how leaves change throughout the seasons.  The story begins with the young bear very puzzled about why the leaves are falling off the trees.  As he tries to stick the leaves back on, he becomes very...

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• Jen and the Great One

  This First Nations story introduces the reader to the world of trees through the eyes and ears of Jen, who has a special place in her heart for the massive tree she calls the Great One.  One day the wind whispers through the Great One's...

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• There's A Barnyard In My Bedroom

  Imagination and some everyday objects send Megan and Jamie on three incredible journeys of discovery as they learn how nature provides us with everything we need.  A rainy day hike teaches the pair about food and household products that originate...

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• Climate Change (according to a kid)

  Climate change can be an overwhelming topic for young students. However, as the global citizens who could be most impacted by the environmental problems associated with warming temperatures it is important that they understand this issue. This fun, animated...

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• Threatened

  Luc is an orphan who is desperate to escape the abuse and despair of a children's home in Gabon.  Stealing from a naive, white professor seems like the ideal way out.  When his plan fails, Luc is quickly apprehended.  Instead of harsh punishment...

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• Search for Clean Energy - Book 2

  As Earthly travels around the world to meet special friends she also discovers why she has been feeling a bit sick lately. Sven takes her to his favourite beach in Norway, where they encounter oiled seabirds and learn how human dependence on fossil fuels...

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• Is A Carbon Tax The Best Way to Slow Climate Change?

  This short video explores the role that carbon taxes and cap and trade policies can play in addressing climate change. Using case studies from jurisdictions where these programs are in use, the film offers a balanced look in which both pros and cons are...

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• How Covid - 19 Will Affect the Sustainable Development Goals

  The video highlights a United Nations report that sheds light on how COVID-19 will impact the Sustainable Development Goals. These goals are vital to ending poverty, protecting the planet, and improving the lives of everyone by 2030. Around the world,...

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• Kids vs Global Warming

  This video portrays Alec Loorz, a remarkable teenager who crusades against global warming.  Some of his many accomplishments include his ingenious iMatter campaign, and other environmental education initiatives all designed to appeal to youth. ...

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• Are We Disturbing Birds?

  This outdoor activity has students explore how changes in human land use are impacting bird habitats. Students walk through the community to identify the recent changes that have taken place. Based on their observations, students determine if the changes...

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• Countdown

  To need or to want is two different things. This interactive game helps students analyse what is most essential to them. Student collaborate in teams in order to identify and analyse what is essential and what is not. As the teacher reads different scenes,...

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• Sustainable Development Goals explained with 3 useful tips

  In this whiteboard animation, I explain how the United Nation's Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) are interconnected (the SDG wedding cake) and how you can use them to understand how sustainable your country or your business is.

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• 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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