Resources

• What a Dump!

  In this STEM activity, students learn about environmental, civil, and sanitation engineering by designing and building model landfills that hold the most garbage, minimize costs, and prevent trash and contaminated rainwater from polluting the nearby city. ...

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• Operation Water Drop

  After examining facts, issues and responsibilities around the question of 'what is safe drinking water', students collect and test the quality of drinking water samples from five sources.  The class is divided up to complete 13 tests on...

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• Buy, Use, Toss?

  Buy, Use, Toss? is a two-week unit that provides multiple entry points to help students think critically about consumption. This series of ten thoroughly planned lessons lead your students through an exploration of the systems of producing and consuming...

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• Understanding the Global Refugee Crisis

  This lesson asks students to consider how a refugee crisis in the 1930s might help us think about how we respond to today’s refugee crisis. In the 1930s, hundreds of thousands of European Jews were refugees, fleeing persecution from Nazi Germany....

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• Decoding Carbon. A Climate Policy Quest

  This comprehensive resource uses guided inquiry to inform students about climate change and the crucial role of policy in addressing the serious threats it poses. The resource is made up of 4 sections, each consisting of two or more lessons.  While...

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• Who's Responsible?

  This 30 minute activity encourages pupils to consider who is responsible for ensuring we achieve the Global Goals (also known as the Sustainable Development Goals, SDGs). It consists of four downloads: Teacher's Guide Global Goals-Stimulus sheet Global...

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• Seven Types of Plastic

  This introductory lesson teaches students about the role plastics play in their daily lives.  They explore how much and what type plastic that is placed in the recycling box actually gets recycled. Students will learn about the seven categories of...

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• Clean Air, Healthy Children

  These education materials and lesson plans are designed to introduce young children to the concepts of respiratory health, air quality and caring for the environment.  The unit begins by providing a comprehensive background to support teaching/learning...

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• The Power of Plants

  The Power of Plants is a collection of six complete lesson plans that raises awareness about the importance of biodiversity in everyday life. Lesson 1: Two classes - Students will explore these different art forms by creating two artworks using the same...

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• Here Today, Gone Tomorrow: Saving Migratory Animals

  The objective of Here Today, Gone Tomorrow:Saving Migratory Animals is to determine the migratory path for a bird species and investigate whether the habitats in its summer and winter location are similar or different. Based on this information, students...

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• Biodiversity: The Spice of Life (Module 1)

  The unit, Biodiversity:The Spice of Life, provides activities to launch a unit, school theme, and/or to help integrate biodiversity concepts across curriculum. Activity ideas include a focus on: Student Experience Interviewing Artistic Representations First...

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• Next Generation Climate

  Next Generation Climate is a six lesson, STEM climate change resource that has students investigate the cause of the global temperature change, research the major repercussions of climate change, and find out how they can monitor and minimize those repercussions....

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• Ecological Footprints

  This resource examines the difference between consumption and waste. Students investigate the concept of an ecological footprint using a game format.  Afterwards they visit an interactive website that allows them to calculate their family's ecological...

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• What in the World is Happening to our Climate?

  The activities in this lesson are meant to accompany the storybook "What in the World is Happening to our Climate?".  The lesson plan consists of three distinct activities: Activity 1: Weather Adds Up to Climate In this hands-on activity that runs...

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• Reducing Global Consumption

  This resource focuses attention on the relationship between  human consumption and environmental degradation, with particular attention paid to declining biodiversity.  Students first become familiar with  a number of concepts including...

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• Climate Leadership

  The resource Climate Leadership aims to educate students about climate change and give ideas and inspiration in order for them to take action.  The three lessons in the tool kit focus on consumerism, food and transportation while addressing climate...

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• Antifreeze; Anti Fish

      In this classroom activity, students participate in the production of a play that highlights the direct link between storm drains and natural river, stream or creek ecosystems.  The dramatization features two young friends encountering...

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• Circular Economy

  What do we mean by circular economy? In this lesson, students will be comparing our waste system and economy to the circle of life. This lesson will help students understand that machine-made objects do not follow a circular process when disposing of...

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• Energy Conservation Learning Activities- Middle School

  This resource provides a grade by grade progression of ecological concepts related to energy conservation.  Grade 4:  The students  participate in an interactive activity in which they physically map out a diverse forested area in their...

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• That's Impossible!

  This lesson plan aims to sensitize students to the importance of preserving water resources (especially fresh water) that are essential to the survival of human beings and to the balance of the planet. It also warns of the enormous differences that exist...

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