• Fall Monarch Migration

  This resource engages students in a study of wildlife migration by tracking the fall flight of monarch butterflies to Mexico. Using an on-line tool, Canadian students track monarch butterfly sightings in early fall, along with students from the United...

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• Debris Dilemma

  This resource uses a video lesson, a fast-paced interactive game, and a group activity to highlight the ongoing problems that plastics and other forms of garbage create for marine environments and the animals that live there. After watching a powerful...

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• Chemicals, The Environment, and You

  This inquiry-based resource focuses on the science of toxicology and introduces students to the methods scientists use to determine how chemicals can both help and harm human health. Active learning is promoted and student interest stimulated through...

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• Butterfly Life Cycle

  This resource consists of a series of lessons designed to teach students about the life cycle of a butterfly as well as the range of current threats facing this creature.  Students will: create a butterfly craft. match colors in nature...

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• The Greens: Activity Guide

  This web-based resource consists of a series of six core activities designed to educate students about the need for waste minimization and management.  A clear message is the importance of reducing our individual footprints on the environment. Students...

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• Water and Sanitation for All: Bringing the Issue Home

  Water and Sanitation for All consists of three lessons designed to raise awareness of the issues facing children with inadequate access to clean water or sanitation facilities.  Lesson 1: Students explore through reading and discussion, the “big...

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• Water and Sanitation for All: Bringing the Issue Home

  Water and Sanitation for All is a unit of three lessons designed to raise awareness of the problems facing children with inadequate access to clean water or sanitation and provide insight into the ways in which people and agencies are working to resolve...

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• The Children's Parliament

  The Children’s Parliament resource kit teaches democracy and citizenry skills to students while giving them an official forum to voice their own concerns and solutions to local and global issues. The aim of the project is to inform youth about political...

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• Wetland Metaphors

  This hands-on activity is designed to help young students understand the importance of wetland ecosystems.  Specific wetland functions are represented by a collection of common household items.  For example a sponge is used to illustrate the...

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• Explore and Embrace a Special Wild Place: K-4

  Explore and Embrace a Special Wild Place helps students discover their own special wild spaces where they can explore their relationship with the wild. As they come to know the wild creatures that share their space, they'll learn that, although such places...

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• Monarch Butterfly: Royal Mail

  This unit is most relevant to students living on the migratory pathway of the Monarch butterfly. They will be part of an international project to collect and report information on migration and habitat. Some of the background information may be useful...

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• Native Species: Nature's Choice

  This resource examines the impact of invasive species on habitats, biodiversity and the web of life. Five lessons offer hands-on, inquiry-based learning activities to raise student awareness of alien species and the need to restore native species....

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• Explore and Embrace a Special Wild Place: Gr. 6-8

  With these activities the students discover their own special wild spaces, where they can explore their relationship with the outdoors and develop an appreciation for the natural world. In Activity #1, the students take a field trip to find their own...

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• Water and Sanitation for All: Bringing the Issue Home

  Water and Sanitation for All is a unit of three lessons designed to raise awareness of the problems facing children with inadequate access to clean water or sanitation and provide insight into the ways in which people and agencies are working to resolve...

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• Rights, Wants & Needs Activity Kit

  The Rights, Wants & Needs activity kit introduces students to human rights and citizenship concepts using picture cards and a variety of related activities. The resource explores the idea that the basic needs of children are considered rights. ...

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• Drilling Down to Sustainability

  In this ESD lesson, students are first asked to consider the most sustainable consumer product choice between a non-locally grown organic and a conventionally-grown, local apple. This engaging problem teases students to think about the economic,...

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• Whose Responsibility is It?

  This resource introduces students to environmental stewardship and tasks them to develop and implement a personal plan of action to address an environmental issue.  It touches on conservation, citizenship, human-made disasters, natural resources,...

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• The Chocolate Trade Game

  The Chocolate Trade Game is role-playing game that allows each participant to experience what it might be like to be part of the cocoa trade. Participants learn about fair trade by acting out the various roles in the process from growing beans all...

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• Playing With Decimals

  This is a math lesson that allows students to practise adding and subtracting decimals. It is designed for students in grades 1 to 6 and draws attention to quality of life differences in developed and developing nations.  Students will complete a...

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• Taming the Paper Tiger

  This resource is designed to educate students about the importance of reducing, reusing and recycling by examining the impact of paper consumption on our environment. K-2 Activities - Students will: review what sorts of paper products are being thrown...

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