• Water is Life

  The learning package Water is Life has been created as an extension of the Indigenous Peoples Atlas of Canada Giant Floor Map learning activities. The resource is divided into four lessons that can be used individually or as part of a unit....

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• How Much Water Do You Eat?

  The goal of this resource is to distinguish between the direct and indirect consumption of water and help students understand in the context of water conservation and stewardship, that some foods choices require more water than others to produce. The...

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• The Boy Who Walked Backwards

  After returning home for a Christmas break, Leo, a young Ojibway boy vows to never go back to the residential school that had isolated him from his family and culture.  A simple childhood game of "ngiigazoo" inspires the idea that will help him get...

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• From Far Away

  Escaping from a war-torn country should be exciting for a young child living a life fraught with the danger of being shot or bombed.  However, as Saoussan recounts the panic of plane travel, the anxiety of a language barrier and the fear of a foreign...

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• Reef Rescue

  In this lesson, students will watch a documentary called Reef Rescue* that follows incredible scientists as they race to save corals from disappearing. The lesson also comes with a guide to accompany the viewing of the documentary. This guide splits the...

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• The Heat Is On!

  In The Heat Is On students  research themes of climate change in Ontario and predict the impacts of climate change on a local forested environment. The objectives of this lesson are:  To introduce the greenhouse effect and climate change. To...

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• Tree Song

  The poetic prose and colourful illustrations bring nature's music to life in this story about a young oak sapling that sprouts from an acorn and grows into a majestic tree. Seasonal melodies of wind, rain and snow are accompanied by the voices of animals...

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• What Role Can Canada Play in Global Climate Action?

  This resource is one of 14 activities in Green Learning’s Decoding Carbon - A Climate Policy Quest, which explores how policy is used to build a low-carbon future. The activities are grouped by topics. Teachers or students can do any resources...

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• The Sprawling Dandora Landfill

  The Dandora Landfill is a sprawling waste site covering an area of about 121,400 square metres in Nairobi, Kenya. Every day around 2,000 tonnes of garbage is sent to this site. It is estimated that more than one million people live in the area immediately...

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• A Fine Balance

  Students participate in a role-playing activity that simulates a public forum in which decisions regarding forest harvesting are debated. The lesson unfolds as follows: Students discuss the different ways in which forests are important to Canada. They...

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• Ocean Plastics Education Kit for Elementary School

  The Ocean Plastic Education Kit provides a variety of lesson plans, activities and resources to bring ocean literacy into the elementary classroom to educate, equip and empower students to be ocean stewards. Through these activities, students will learn...

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• Ocean Plastics Education Kit for Middle School

  Did you know that around 13 million tonnes of plastics enter oceanic currents annually? This has resulted in more pieces of plastic in our ocean than stars in the galaxy. To help educators bring ocean literacy into the classroom, Ocean Wise has created...

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• Ocean Plastics Education Kit for High School

  Ocean Wise has created The Ocean Plastic Education Kit for High Schools to encourage educators to bring ocean literacy into the classroom. This easy-to-use resource provides a variety of lesson plans with curriculum connections to Chemistry, Environmental...

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• Understanding Child Labor

  Child exploitation is one of the most serious ethical issues that entrepreneurs, businesses and consumers must be aware of. Child labour has been deemed as unethical and illegal globally, yet there are millions of cases around the world where children...

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• Sustainable Water Solutions

  In this resource students work to map out the strengths and weaknesses of various solutions to the growing need for water and the quest for its conservation. Within the lesson, the students will be guided to consider the environmental, social, economical...

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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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• Maple Syrup Inquiry

  The warm days of early Spring announce the end of a long Canadian winter and the start of the traditional maple syrup season that first began when First Nations communities discovered how to harvest the sap from maple trees.  This lesson introduces...

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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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• 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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• Let's ID That Tree!

  Outdoor exploration and technology combine in this innovative lesson that has young students learning about the native and non-native tree species found in their community.  Learners use the free Pl@ntNet app as a scientific tool that aids in tree...

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