• Climate Change, Human Activities and Biodiversity

  In this role-play activity students become part of a food web to learn that in ecosystems, living organisms interact and depend on each other others and are adaptable to specific climates and landscapes.  Students will also explore how human actions...

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• Climate Justice

  This resource is comprised of two activities addressing the effects of climate change and the global inequalities that result. Students will learn that it is often the developing countries that emit the least amount of greenhouse gases yet suffer the...

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• Sustainable Transportation

  Students explore sustainable transportation and ways in which it can benefit their  community.  They begin by discussing  what sustainable transportation means and why it is important.  They watch a short video, identify 3 ideas presented...

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• Designing for the Future

  This resource examines themes related to sustainable communities including, building sustainable infrastructure, managing the effects of climate change, providing inclusive communities, and embracing heritage and culture. Students are presented with real...

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• Green Chemistry JV InvenTeams Activity Guide

  Students form an invention team to develop sustainable bioplastic prototypes made from benign materials. The unit is comprised of 6 lessons or team meetings, each supported very well by guides for the teacher and the students.  The lessons, structured...

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• Reduce Your Energy Use

  Reduce Your Energy Use is a math activity in which students consider those electricity-consuming items in their homes that could be eliminated from their lives and they would still live comfortably. In groups, students examine cards (provided) showing...

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• Healthy Air Versus Polluted Air Quality

  Healthy Air Versus Polluted Air Quality is a short activity that focuses on the causes of air pollution and how air quality effects our health. The activity begins with a class discussion of what affects air quality both positively and negatively. Next...

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• Explore Your Environment

  This resource includes 50 hands-on, multidisciplinary activities to connect children to nature and increase student’s awareness and knowledge about their environment. Activities are designed to be easy to use and include step-by-step instructions....

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• Investigating Sea Level Using Real Data

  This interactive module provides learning at five different levels of student interaction identified as Entry, Adoption, Adaptation, Interactivity and Invention. Levels 1 and 2 are teacher directed. Levels 3-5 are structured to allow for student inquiry....

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• Introduction to Sustainable Fashion

  In the video "Introduction to Sustainable Fashion", the hosts give a comprehensive and enlightening look at sustainability and waste in the fashion industry.  They first explain the very broad term "sustainable fashion" and explain why it is important...

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• Learning the Land: Native Prairies Species-at-Risk 7

  The vast expanses of Canada's prairie grasslands have traditionally been connected to First Nations culture and history.  “Living lightly” on the land supported balanced ecological relationships between bison, vegetation, wildlife and...

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• Treaty Words

  Mishomis (Grandfather) sits with his granddaughter on the banks of the river where he has lived his whole life.  As he teaches her to quietly listen to nature's sounds, he also recounts how the original treaty between Mother Earth and First Nations...

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• Food's Carbon Footprint

  This resource explores the environmental impact of our food choices. Aided by a slide show and video students learn about food miles and the different environmental impacts from growing, transporting and preserving food. They conduct research to determine...

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• Fashion's Waste Problem

  This short video explains the facts about textile waste in the fashion industry and the concept of fast fashion. The hosts of the program describe the various ways in which textile waste is produced and the impact it has on the planet. The videos also...

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• The Secret Lives of Clothes

  This short program examines 'ethical fashion' and focuses on the working conditions of the hidden people who make our clothes. The hosts illustrate the difference between minimum wage and a living wage while also discussing examples of modern slavery,...

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• Illuminate

  Students play a simulation game and learn about the impacts of climate change, explore ways to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and respond to climate risks Players must complete two missions. In the first one they consider different ways that greenhouse...

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• How Can Air Pollution Affect Our Bodies

  "How Can Air Pollution Affect Our Bodies" helps students to explore the concept of character traits while learning about the impact of air quality on human health. It links to a previous lesson on air quality called "Why Is Coco Orange?" and can be used...

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• My Seasonal Round

  The spiritual and cultural customs of Canada's Indigenous people have always been closely intertwined with the seasonal changes of the land.  As communities moved from one resource gathering area to another, stories were told and traditions were...

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• What Really Happens to the Plastic You Throw Away?

  The three characters in this animated film embark on very different journeys after they are discarded by humans.  Bottle one falls into a toxic dump from which he will not escape for hundreds of years.  Bottle two travels to the beautiful Pacific...

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• Lifecycle of a Plastic Bottle

  Although plastic is a versatile and economical substance that we use every day, Earth has also become inundated with our plastic waste that is destroying ocean ecosystems, harming wildlife and polluting sensitive habitats.  In this activity students...

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