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• Image Conveys a Powerful Voice: Yours

  Image Conveys a Powerful Voice: Yours! is a lesson plan designed for secondary students in preparation for Martin Luther King, Jr. Day. The students will use visual literacy skills to analyze the components and message of an image. The students will identify...

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• An Energy Project for the Global Goals

  This resource has students compare and contrast their use of electricity, gas usage and paper waste with another school. The two main aspects of the activity are data collection and brainstorming ways to reduce consumption. Each school will monitor their...

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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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• Food Miles: Growing Local Food Connections (Middle Level)

  This ESD resource will enlighten students about where their food comes from and the importance of a healthy diet. Activities are designed to develop environmental citizenship and promote action that will help to reduce food miles as a conscious contribution...

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• Y Adapt

  Students learn about global climate change and its impacts before taking action to improve climate resiliency within their own communities. The resource consists of 6 lessons or sessions that engage students in a wide range of hands on activities, exercises,...

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• Bioengineered Foods?

  In this lesson, students compare the processes of selective breeding and transgenic manipulation of plants. They consider the pros and cons of growing genetically modified crops. They then explore the possible future consequences of genetically modified...

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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 activists for climate change worldwide. Students will: explore what it means to be an activist and then watch a short film featuring...

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• What World Do You Want in 2030?

  This resource has students envision a world where the Global Goals have been achieved. The resource begins with an activity designed to provide an entry point to the Goals, either one Goal or a theme from the Goals. Students view an animation to learn...

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• Adapting to a Changing World

  In this unit, students assess individual and national opinions on climate change and explore strategies that communities are employing to adapt to aspects of climate change that are already affecting them or may affect them in the future. They will complete...

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• Plants & Animals Are Affected by Water Quality

  This unit, which is taken from the compilation Healthy Water Healthy People, consists of three lessons. It introduces students to macroinvertebrates and their role as environmental indicators through simulated or actual fieldwork and classroom experiences. Lesson...

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• Natural Gas: A Cleaner Energy Solution or Just Another Fossil Fuel?

  Students explore current information about natural gas and compare its greenhouse gas emissions to those of other fossil fuels. They take positions and debate the question: Should we  expand our use of natural gas as an energy resource, using it...

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• Great Canadian Shoreline Cleanup: K to 3

  This comprehensive resource focuses on educating students about the importance of removing shoreline litter to help create healthy waters for everyone, including the wildlife and the communities that depend on them. Through a variety of practical, hands-on...

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• Design for Change: One Idea! One Week!

  Design for Change outlines a process by which students identify a problem and collectively design and execute a plan to remedy the problem. The process,as outlined, involves four steps - feel, imagine, do and share. The four steps are realized through...

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• Cultural Perspectives on Sustainability

  The activities in this resource provide background information on a First Nations and Métis perspective or worldview and their respective concept of sustainability. The lessons were developed to address objectives from the unit entitled Life Science:...

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• Exploring Canada's Energy Future

  This resource was created to support teachers in using the Exploring Canada's Energy Future Interactive Tool with their students. Based on data from Energy Futures reports, this tool allows students to explore energy production and consumption trends...

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• Waste Not, Want Not

  Waste Not, Want not is the fourth resource from 10,000 Changes that provides an opportunity for educators to explore key themes and concepts connected with plastic use and how to eliminate plastic in our daily lives.  In this three part lesson, students...

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• Global Schools Program Grade 11

  Students will focus on different aspects of gender: stereotypes, the role gender plays in everyday life, and its impact on larger global dynamics.  Students will learn about the concept of positive deviance, and learn how they can promote change...

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• Hidden Plastics

  Students will be introduced to the term hidden plastics and will participate in an activity that analyzes everyday items that could potentially contain these materials. Students will view the Hidden Plastics video and explore the associated infographic...

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• World Climate Simulation

  Students step into the role of delegates to a world climate summit and negotiate an international climate agreement designed to achieve the 2 degree warming threshold (as agreed to in Paris at COP21). In addition to gaining an understanding of counter...

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• Changing Climates - Years 5 & 6

  In this four-part lesson, the students will explore the topic of climate change through various activities.  They will learn of the historical causes and everyday habits that contribute to climate change.  All lessons are in a PowerPoint format...

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