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Tikho's Story: A Quest for Clean Water in Zambia
Tikho’s Story is an authentic tale about water and sanitation issues from a youth perspective. Tikho is a young girl from Zambia, whose community is working to improve its access to safe drinking water. The slideshow includes short videos made...
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The Impact of Pollution on Our Planet and Our Lives
Environmental pollution is a significant problem facing the planet. Environmental pollutants can originate from several sources. Knowing what the different types of pollution are and where they come from can help students understand the potential impact...
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Global Water and Sanitation Curriculum
Global Water and Sanitation Awareness Curriculum consists of a number of activities (water usage survey,creative writing, art projects, simulations,action plans) designed to raise student awareness of the unequal availability and use of water, the...
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Food Miles: Growing Local Food Connections (Elementary)
Food Miles is comprised of a number of activities that teach students about the food they eat and where it comes from. The resource aims to inspire students to reduce their food miles and emphasize the importance of a healthy diet. Students will explore...
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BioCellection Technology for Recycling Plastic
Reduce, Reuse, Recycle! What about Refuse, Replace, Reimagine? In this activity, students will be focusing mainly on the “Reimagine” of the new 3Rs. The resource introduces students to BioCellection’s innovative technology that aims...
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Trading Textiles
Trading textiles is a lesson plan built for students to reflect on the impact of the textile industry and the affects on our environment and options they could implement in order to diverting textile waste from landfills. In small groups students will...
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Fly Away Home!
Bird migration is explored in this lesson that has students creating paper airplane "birds" that must navigate their way through a fragmented landscape as they fly to their breeding grounds. A dynamic approach supports action as learners recognize how...
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The Biodiversity of Ontario’s Natural and Manmade Islands
This lesson consists of 3 parts that could be used individually or collectively as one large lesson. In the first part, students participate in a game that explores the concept of island biogeography. The activity simulates the colonization of four islands...
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The Monarch Butterfly
This multi-lesson unit has students explore concepts including butterfly’s life cycle, pollination, plant growth, and migration. They will recognize that people have complex relationships with Monarchs and the plants which sustain them. Students...
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Understanding Dynamic Systems
This self-paced interactive lesson guides students through the process of identifying and analyzing a system. Students cover systems thinking basics and then examine the dynamics of soil health through videos and online exercises that make the system...
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Bringing Data to Life 14-16 years
This well planned resource includes 3 sessions that have students represent real life data in different means. It includes ready to use presentations and handouts, background information and lesson plans. Students will be using Session 1: Learners are...
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Sustainable Happiness and Health Education Teacher's Guide- Elementary
The Sustainable Happiness resource illustrates the link between happiness and sustainability. It promotes the fact that we are connected to one another and the natural environment and that our mutual well-being depends on these interconnections. The lesson...
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Electricity Conservation and You
In this comprehensive ESD resource students explore how they use electricity in their lives. They assess renewable and non-renewable energy sources, identify the societal, environmental, and economic impacts of our energy use, explore the causes and consequences...
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Understanding Sustainable Development
The lesson plan consists of a series of activities designed to introduce students to the concept of sustainable development and "ecological accounting." Students measure their own ecological footprint and compare it to others as a means of calculating...
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Exploring Biodiversity: A Guide For Educators Around the World
This teaching resource is designed to explore the ecological and social dimensions of biodiversity with students. The resource introduces fascinating topics, raises challenging questions and guides students to explore, analyse, evaluate and discuss...
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A Million Bottles a Minute
A Million Bottles a Minute is an educational program designed to raise awareness of the single-use plastic issue. The resource provides students with an overview of the plastics problem through a variety of engaging and hands-on activities. Students learn...
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The Invaders: Lesson & Activities
Students explore the topic of invasive species and are introduced to several Canadian examples. The resource teaches students how to employ both open and closed questionning techniques in their investigations. Activity 1: Invasive Species and BiodiversityStudents...
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Salmonids in the Classroom - Primary
This exciting resource focuses on salmon biology and stewardship. It adopts an ecological approach and teaches students how to "take care in their own lives so that salmon thrive!" Throughout the resource students will document...
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Tread Lightly: Low Carbon Lunch
Using an inquiry-based learning approach, this resource helps students see how to reduce their carbon footprint by paying particular attention to their food choices. Students will discover how food choices can impact the environment. To reach these...
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Living the Good Life
Livin' the Good Life teaches students about quality of life and community indicators such as sustainability, inequality, poverty, and good governance. Students develop indicators to measure quality of life and conduct a survey of peers and adults to obtain...
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