• Planes, Trains, or Bicycles: Being a Low-impact Traveler

  The connectivity of regions around the globe made possible by air travel and other transportation modes comes with environmental costs, such as increased carbon emissions from burning fossil fuels. In this activity, students will be transformed into strategically...

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• Climate Change Resources for Teachers

  Learning for a Sustainable Future has compiled a comprehensive collection of lesson plans, books, outdoor activities, and videos on climate change. This Compendium of Climate Change Resources connects teachers to excellent resources from various sources...

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• Back to the Future

  Students explore how the movement of goods has changed over time. They examine different means of transporting freight, which makes up 46% of transportation emissions in Canada. Students take on the task of historically sorting a set of Moving Goods Cards. Each...

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• Exploring Transportation

  This learning activity has students list, discuss, and demonstrate knowledge of the most common modes of transportation, identifying the most efficient ways to deliver freight. Students will: watch a video explaining different modes of transportation...

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• Encouraging the Use of Electric Vehicles

  In this activity, students will watch a video explaining electrification and its goals, then discuss in pairs what challenges might impact reaching targets for EV ownership in Canada. After brainstorming possible  solutions, they will rate their...

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• My Hobby, Our Climate

  In this activity students will meet five Canadian teenagers with hobbies that are being affected by climate change. After hearing the teenagers' concerns, students will discuss the various consequences of climate change and offer some solutions. They...

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• Fast Fashion The T-Shirt Board Game

  The Fast Fashion: The T-Shirt Board Game is an activity designed to explore the environmental and social impacts of fast fashion while encouraging sustainable clothing practices. Students play a board game in which they navigate the lifecycle of a T-shirt...

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• Food Solutions: Climate Change Action for K-2

  Greenhouse gas emissions from the production, processing and distribution of global food supplies are a leading cause of the current climate change crisis.  Warming temperatures and associated severe weather events also threaten the stability of...

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• Climate Change and Migration

  This module invites students to evaluate the effects of climate change on migration across the globe. By exploring four real-life climate events in Senegal, the Philippines, Germany, and Kiribati in the South Pacific, the module illustrates that climate...

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• Social Justice: Examining Privilege with a Recycling Bin

  Canada prides itself as an inclusive country where all citizens are able to prosper, irrespective of an individual's identity.  However, even in a democratic society like ours, the reality is that issues such as systemic racism, gender bias and socioeconomic...

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• Which Bag Should You Use?

  In a world that is trying to remove the single-use plastics that are harming wildlife, ecosystems and our oceans it seems like replacing plastic grocery bags with reusable plastic, cloth or paper bags is a simple solution.  Consumers presume that...

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• Pollinator Man

  Meet "Pollinator Man", an environmental superhero who by day helps produce food and protect biodiversity and at night fights against dangerous villains like "Pesticide Boy" and "Climate Crusher"!  Despite his protective bee costume and super strength,...

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• Berry Song

  In this delightful story a Tlingit grandmother and granddaughter embark on a journey of knowledge sharing and discovery as they gather food from the wild.  The Elder and child move through the seasons, collecting herring eggs, seaweed, salmon and...

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• The Climate Change Conundrum

  The Climate Change Conundrum is meant to help students identify their emotions surrounding climate change and provide coping strategies.  After reading through the cartoon students will be asked to identify what the characters are feeling and why...

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• Build a Rain Barrel

  How can you conserve water with an ordinary plastic garbage can?  The three sisters featured in this video have turned their vegetable garden into a summer science experiment where they catalogue plant growth and measure weekly precipitation. ...

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• Become a Fact-ivist!

  The United Nation's Sustainable Development Goals (SDG's) aim to solve the world's urgent social, economic and environmental problems by 2030.  This math-based activity involves learners in examining how data is compiled and analyzed to measure the...

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• Working with Wind Energy

  "Working with Wind Energy" is a STEM lesson plan designed to teach students about wind energy generation on both large and small scales. In this activity, student teams are tasked with designing and building a functional wind turbine using everyday materials,...

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• Race to Pollinate!

  Biodiversity and the food that we consume every day both rely on the pollination process that is essential to flowering plant reproduction.  Many of the animals that are responsible for pollination are declining, including honeybees, which have been...

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• Researching the environmental effects of vehicles

  In this 25-minute activity students collaborate to develop scientific hypotheses and inquiry questions aimed at evaluating the environmental impacts of electric versus gasoline vehicles. Students are asked to consider a response to the question, "which...

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• Climate Migrants

  Imagine a family who loses their home and all of their belongings to a catastrophic flood and has to make a long, arduous trek to an unfamiliar place crowded with other displaced people.  The global reality is that human movement away from homelands...

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