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Climate Change in the Garden: One Seed at a Time
This innovative resource explores climate change impacts on food production with a series of activities that build environmental stewardship skills. As students examine how rising temperatures are impacting ecological factors like pollination cycles,...
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Environmental Stewardship
“Leave no Trace” is an environmental concept that encourages outdoor enthusiasts to protect the natural world by striving to not leave any evidence of human activity in wilderness areas visited. It's a philosophy this lesson focuses on to...
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Junior Pest Investigators Teacher's Guide
Junior Pest Investigators Teacher’s Guide In this engaging classroom resource young learners take on the role of Pest Investigators to track down solutions to common pest problems that minimize harm to human health and the environment. Along...
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Pollutants in Your Environment
This four-part digital activity guide is intended to be used by secondary teachers to explore pollution release in Canada as well as to highlight the uses of The National Pollutant Release Inventory. The NPRI is a registry managed by Environment and Climate...
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Food, Farming, and Climate Change
How does climate change affect your food? Watch a video to learn how climate change affects farms and what farmers in your area are doing about it. Research different farming techniques, and learn how agriculture can affect climate change...
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The Secret Path Senior Years Lesson Plans
As part of their ongoing commitment to engage teachers in reconciliation work the Manitoba Teachers' Society recently assembled a group of indigenous and non-Indigenous teachers from across the province to discuss and explore the Secret Path. This was...
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Bioaccumulation: A Case Study of British Columbia’s Killer Whales
Bioaccumulation: A Case Study of British Columbia's Killer Whales is a series of five related classroom lessons during which students will learn about the natural history of British Columbia's killer whale population and the threats they face. Emphasis...
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The Big Picture on Biodiversity and Climate Change
This is a highly experiential learning resource that explores the relationship among biodiversity, climate change and human health. In addition to drawing attention to the importance of species diversity the resource provides both ideas and support ...
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Wind Power Challenge
The Wind Power resource is an exciting hands-on STEM challenge for students. The main goal of this lesson is to enable students to look at a problem faced by communities that don't have access to electricity, and to then make their own model of a simple...
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Buy Nothing Day
This lesson plan focuses students attention on the issue of consumerism and asks them to consider its benefits and drawbacks. Students identify the different influences on their spending habits with special attention to the role of the media. ...
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What's My Carbon Footprint
In this inquiry students investigate the issues surrounding carbon emissions and the concept of a ‘carbon footprint’. With this understanding they use tools identified in the resource to calculate their own carbon footprints and compare them...
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Human Rights and the Global Goals
This lesson plan will help assist young students in better understanding human rights. Students will discover their rights, will be able to claim human rights, including child rights, and will know that this contributes to the Global Goals. The lesson...
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The Future of Species
During this lesson, student will learn about the big decline in populations of fish, birds, mammals, amphibians, and reptiles during the past years. Using data around threatened or endangered species, students will create a graph and draw inferences on...
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What is Your Plastics Consumption Footprint?
The resource is one of 12 found in Green Learning’s ECO 360- a comprehensive study of the circular economy. This particular lesson encourages students to use the 5R approach to reduce plastic consumption. Learning is based on the Plastics Pollution...
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How is Your Community Adapting for Electric Vehicles?
Electric vehicles have increased significantly in popularity in a few short years. Many individuals are making the transition to alternative fuel sources for transportation. This resource is created to accompany other lessons. It is important for students...
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The Science of Plastics
This resource has students discover what plastic is, why it was created, and how it is made. Students will conduct a scientific enquiry into single-use plastic products, identifying their properties, uses and environmental implications. Students...
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Decoding Global Goal 7
The main goal of this lesson is for students to distinguish the difference between renewable and non-renewable energy sources. They will also take a close look at how young people from around the world are using their creativity to come up with new solutions...
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Asthma in the City
This problem-based learning unit focuses on the health effects of poor air quality. Students are asked to explain why one twin has asthma and one does not. Students form groups called Think-Tanks that allow them to research the issue...
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Teaching Geography Through a Sustainability Lens
This kit was created to thread sustainability-related knowledge, skills and attitudes throughout the Ontario grade nine geography course. While the kit consists of separate modules designed to match the conventional units of study in the Ontario...
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The Fall of Flint
In this photo essay, photographer Matt Black portrays the town of Flint and its residents as they persevere through the water crisis. A water crisis has severely impacted the residents since 2014. In this lesson, students view photos documenting the Flint,...
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