• How to Design for Sustainability

  From toxic chemicals released into air and water to unsafe factories, the fashion industry is being scrutinized for the environmental and social damage it causes.  This film explains how the clothing supply chain can become more sustainable from...

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• Who is Responsible for Sustainable Fashion?

  The fashion industry has a history of being one of the world's worst polluters and violating human rights with issues like using child labour and paying unfair wages.  This video teaches students how governments, industry associations and non-profit...

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• Whales: Gardeners of the Ocean

  Who knew whale poop could be so important!  This video takes students to the Saguenay-St. Lawrence Marine Park to learn how Parks Canada scientists are studying whale ecology to understand the relationship between these amazing marine mammals and...

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• Fire!

  Climate change has caused increases in devastating wildfires that have decimated entire communities.  However, Indigenous people have always understood that fire is a natural disturbance that supports ecological balance.  This film explores...

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• Coasties

  Young people have endless fun with “selfies”, but they may be even more excited to participate in the Parks Canada “Coasties” project that monitors climate change impacts on shorelines using citizen photographs.  This video...

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• Blue Carbon

  Carbon is essential to life on Earth but humans have disrupted the natural process of carbon release and storage, resulting in warming temperatures that are harming our environment.  This film follows scientists in Pacific Rim National Park who are...

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• Environmental Racism in Canada

  In this lesson, students will consider the connection between pollution and inequality in Canada and around the world. Introduction:  After discussing the definition of ‘environmental racism’, students watch a video and review recent...

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• Mayah’s Lot

  Mayah’s Lot tells the story of young Mayah and her community’s fight to protect their neighbourhood. This engaging graphic novel helps readers understand the concept of environmental justice while also showing the reader how to navigate the...

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• Bina’s Plant

  Bina’s Plant is the second in a series of books based around the theme of teaching young people about environmental justice. This book continues the story of Maya and Bina’s commitment to their community when they are faced once again with...

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• Troop’s Run

  In the third instalment of the environmental justice chronicles, the town of Forestville is once again threatened. This time the graphic novel focuses on the expansion of a nearby pipeline, a growing cause of concern for residents. The urgency stems from...

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• Climate Change: The Impact of Landfills

  Climate Change: The Impact of Landfills is a flexible resource that allows the teacher and class to decide how deeply they wish to investigate the problems stemming from greenhouse gases caused by landfills. There are a variety of activities that offer...

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• Environmental Justice-Opposing a Toxic Waste Landfill

  In this video featuring segments from the 1980's film Earthkeeping: Toxic Racism, the origin of the environmental racism movement is explained.  The history of the term along with the initial actions that brought the issue to light, are presented...

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• Remembering Africville

  The video “Remembering Africville” is from the animated web series History Bits. It tells the story of the Africville, a black community that had existed in Halifax for 150 years before being bulldozed by the city. The video describes the...

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• Annalise's Cough

  Annalise's Cough is the tale of two young sisters, Annalise and Amira, who live in the inner city and are always together. One day, the sisters discover a waste-to-energy plant hidden behind the trees in their neighbourhood park. Unfortunately, the plant...

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• A Forest

  A Forest is a beautifully illustrated picture book best suited for the early elementary classroom. With its vivid colours and easy to understand text, students are introduced to the concept of deforestation and the importance of caring for the forests.  The...

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• Stand as Tall as the Trees

  Mamita and Papito teach young Paty that she must always honour the spiritual Amazanga by protecting the Ecuadorian rainforest that provides so much for their family.  While away at school, Paty learns that the place she calls home is threatened by...

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• Africville: A Story of Environmental Racism

  The residents of the tiny Nova Scotia village known as Africville worked hard, paid taxes and were proud of their community.  Although the City of Halifax denied basic services like running water and surrounded the area with toxic industries, the...

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• Rose Roberts: Life on the Trapline

  Viewers learn how trappers in the bush are witnessing and experiencing the dramatic effects of climate change firsthand thus making them crucial in understanding and addressing its impacts.  The narrator, Dr Rose Roberts comes from a long line of...

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• Climate Change & Health

  This lesson examines the relationship between the environment and human health.   More specifically students learn how environmental effects from climate change can negatively impact our health.  They identify those who may be most vulnerable...

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• Walking for Water

  Each morning Victor and Linesi meet their friends at the Kachere tree and then follow very different paths.  One school day Victor learns about equality and he realizes that his sister, who spends her days collecting water for her family, also deserves...

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