Resources

• It Had to Be Done

  This short documentary explores the legacy of residential schools through the eyes of two extraordinary women who not only lived it, but who, as adults, made the surprising decision to return to the school that had affected their lives so profoundly....

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• Top Crop: Farming for the Future

  Top Crop is an interactive, online game based on the scenario that the students have been asked to help agricultural leaders figure out the best way to provide more healthy food for a growing human population using sustainable agriculture techniques....

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• What Can I Contribute to Meaningful Reconciliation?

  What Can I Contribute to Meaningful Reconciliation? is a thorough resource that explores the causes and consequences of residential schools in Canada. The overarching question the resource attempts to answer is "What might meaningful reconciliation look...

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• Food, Farming, and Climate Change

  How does climate change affect your food? Watch a video to learn how climate change affects  farms and what farmers in your area are doing about it. Research different farming techniques,  and learn how agriculture can affect climate change...

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• The Harvest

  In The Harvest, students will try to answer the big question: How can we take a little and leave a lot for nature? Students will watch an introductory video by youth host, Jordan who invites them and lead scientist Dr. Boris Worm to his Heiltsuk homelands...

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• Norma's Story

  Norma's Story documents the profound effect of climate change on the environment, culture and food security of the Vuntut Gwitchin people of the Northern Yukon. The video gives a first hand account of the effects of climate change and the resulting...

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• The Secret Path Senior Years Lesson Plans

  As part of their ongoing commitment to engage teachers in reconciliation work the Manitoba Teachers' Society recently assembled a group of indigenous and non-Indigenous teachers from across the province to discuss and explore the Secret Path. This was...

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• What is Sustainable Development?

  What is Sustainable Development is a short video that offers a simple introduction to the term of sustainable development for younger students.  It explains that sustainable development is how we can make the world a better place for everyone now...

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• Mitigation or Adaptation

  This lesson examines the difference between mitigation and adaptation in addressing climate change. Beginning with a discussion of the different risks due to our changing climate students come up with their own ideas for effective action that they will...

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• The Cost of Carbon

  This video focuses attention on the global cost of climate change.  Evidence from climate science and footage of real time events are used to effectively illustrate the economic, personal, environmental and geopolitical costs of carbon pollution...

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• The Human Impact of Climate Change

  These activities explore the human impact of the climate emergency and provide new spaces, approaches and opportunities for climate education and social action The resource frames the climate emergency as a human rights and people-centred issue and...

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• Green House Effect

  Green House Effect is the second of ten episodes that aim to teach students more about climate change and positively influence their lifestyle to help reduce greenhouse gas production and limit climate change.  In this episode, students will learn...

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• Our Home, the Planet Earth

  Our Home, the Planet Earth is the first of ten episodes that aim to teach students more about climate change and positively influence their lifestyle to help reduce greenhouse gas production and limit climate change.  In this episode, students will...

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• Spark Climate Conversations: Climate Justice in the Canadian Artic

  In this activity, through guided conversations, learners will identify ways that climate change is disproportionately affecting the livelihood of the Inuit in the Arctic. Through inquiry, learners will examine how climate change disproportionately...

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• Empowering the Youngest Learners in a Warming World

  Empowering the Youngest Learners in a Warming World K-2 was developed to support teachers in approaching climate change in an age-appropriate way with young students. This resource is a comprehensive guide to climate change education with five different...

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• Building awareness of climate sensitive infectious diseases in Canada

  The lessons in the following toolkit are designed to guide students towards an early understanding of climate change, and the impact it is having on all living things. One of the consequences of these changes is the increasing presence of climate sensitive...

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• Empowering Young Learners in a Warming World

  Empowering Young Learners in a Warming World 3-6 was developed to support teachers in approaching climate change in an age-appropriate way with young students. This resource is a comprehensive guide to climate change education with five different...

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• Mini Lesson for Freedom Road

  Freedom Road is a documentary series about life in the Anishinaabe community of Shoal Lake 40, which straddles the Ontario/Manitoba border near Kenora. The activities in this mini-lesson will help students understand the dehumanizing consequences that...

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• Circular Economy, Sustainability and Climate Action

  This resource is one of twelve found in Green Learning's ECO 360, a curriculum that provides a comprehensive study of the circular economy.  In Circular Economy, Sustainability and Climate Action, students will learn about the United Nations Sustainable...

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• The Circular Economy and Modern Agriculture

  Students are introduced to the challenges faced by modern agriculture and its monoculture focus in providing food security now and in the future.  As part of a series on the circular economy, this lesson promotes a system in which single crop food...

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