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Saving Planet Earthly - Book 1
Saving Planet Earthly is the first book in a series of adventures of Thoko and her friends from around the world. They learn how climate change affects them and the plants and animals they live with. This series of books is electronic with the option...
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The Secret of the First One Up
Lila the groundhog is curious about the early awakening of her Uncle Wilbur each year. As she snuggles into her cozy bed for her long winter sleep Lila is determined to solve the mystery by being the first one up. Sure enough she rises before...
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Alien Invaders: Species that threaten our world
This book provides students with a comprehensive introduction to invasive species and the significant impacts of these species on our natural world. Engaging text that treats the topic like a horror movie highlights how biodiversity is reduced by...
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Nibi's Water Song
Nibi's Water Song tells the story of a young Indigenous girl on the search for clean drinking water. When clean water cannot be found in her home, she searches her community to no avail. Even though she faces numerous challenges, Nibi does...
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My Name Is Henry Bibb
Henry Bibb became a pivotal leader in the abolitionist movement by using the power of the written word to publish Canada’s first Black newspaper, “The Voice of the Fugitive”. This moving novel depicts Henry’s life from a...
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Chakra the Invincible
This book explores the importance of gender equality using a comic book format. The authors bring their character Chakra the Invincible to teach children about the global goals! Chakra takes to the streets of Mumbai to teach children a lesson on gender...
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Night Stars
This comic book takes students through an exciting journey following the story of three young people that can travel through time. Leslie, her brother John and their friend Adam stumbled upon a spaceship with special suits that gave them each unique power....
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Energy Dialogues - Fracturing
This video series explores hydraulic fracturing. The introductory video outlines the techniques involved in answering the question – What have natural gas companies been doing to reduce the pollution caused by fracking? It describes the use of steel...
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Squirrels
"Squirrels" is an easy-to-use resource that helps introduce students to animal behavior and the skills need for making wildlife observations. Through the activities included, the students are introduced to the terms of "caching" and "cache". In the preliminary...
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Energy Dialogue: Wind Power
The resource consists of four videos in response to the question, Why isn’t there more electricity produced by wind generation in Alberta. The first video introduces wind turbines (how they work; where they are located). The second video has...
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Sense Nature
In this outdoor activity students use all of their senses to discover local and native species of plants and animals along with their habitat needs. Students also learn how the information from their senses combine to create an awareness of the natural...
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Let's Ban the Bead
This 2-minute short takes on plastic microbeads - the little bits of plastic that companies have been putting in everything from body washes and hand soaps to toothpaste and makeup. In it, the authors show how microbeads are designed to go down the drain...
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Winter Storms
Major snowfalls are generally associated with winter storm systems that move across the country. The purpose of this exercise is to demonstrate the relationship between the areas of heavy snowfall and the movement of the winter cyclone air masses. Students...
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The Impact of our Food
This multimedia animation explores the environmental impact of food production. In game format it allows students to rank common foods according to three different parameters: total carbon footprint associated with the product and the water...
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Of Forests and Men
This short documentary was directed by award-winning director, Yann Arthus-Bertrand who was appointed by the United Nations to produce an official film for the International Year of Forests. The film uses aerial images from the acclaimed Home and the...
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The Monarch Migration
In this engaging simulation, students become monarch butterflies and experience the challenges of the fall journey to Mexico. After discussing what migration is and why different species migrate, students follow a script that introduces different...
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Global Warming: It's all about carbon
This five-clip video package delivers an animated and highly entertaining chemistry lesson on the elemental cause of global warming- the behavior of the carbon atom. Mini-episodes explain how carbon atoms form bonds in living things that over time make...
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The Voice of an Island
This book by Lupe Vaai demonstrates the current realities of climate change. Katalina, a determined schoolgirl, decides to take matters into her own hands. Growing up in a polluted environment, filled with dust and garbage cans, Katalina decides that...
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Desertification
This visually stunning video explores the causes of desertification and offers possible solutions. The film illustrates that contrary to popular perception, desertification is not defined as the loss of land to desert nor does it occur through sand-dune...
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The Nature of Biodiversity
Our planet's diverse, thriving ecosystems may seem like permanent fixtures, but they're actually vulnerable to collapse. Jungles can become deserts, and reefs can become lifeless rocks. What makes one ecosystem strong and another weak in the face...
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