• 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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• 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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• Biological Invaders

  This video explores the topic of invasive species. It looks specifically at the Brown Tree Snake and the efforts that are being made in Hawaii to stop it from damaging the local ecosystem.  This video illustrates how our modern day world has facilitated...

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• Effects of Environmental Change

  This lesson is designed to engage students in thinking about the concepts of biological adaptation and resiliency in relation to environmental change.  The learning unit centres on the book "The Great Kapok Tree" which provides an introduction to...

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• Frogs: The Thin Green Line

  This video explores how agricultural pesticides like Atrazine are impacting frog populations in California.  Noted amphibian researcher Tyrone Hayes discusses the fascinating yet troublesome ability of these substances to act as endocrine disruptors. ...

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• Why Vaccines Work

  Why Vaccines Work offers students a dose of reality about vaccines. The video explores the origin of vaccines, explains how they work, makes the case for their success, and argues for their continued use to combat disease. 

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• Ethanol Biofuel

  This video segment, adopted from NOVA explores the potential of ethanol as a cleaner-building fuel alternative to gasoline and the efforts to produce it more efficiently. Today, most ethanol is made from corn kernels. But converting corn into ethanol...

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• How Much Plastic Waste do we Create?

  In this short video, students will take a look at how a cargo ship hit a storm and tumbled over, releasing plastic into the ocean, 28 800 bath toys to be exact. The bath toys started to wash ashore in multiple parts of the world, but most ended up in...

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• Why Climate Change is Anti-Justice

  Our warming planet is altering weather patterns and the people most affected by events such as hurricanes or droughts are those who are already challenged by poverty and discrimination.  This video describes how environmental racism has contributed...

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