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The resource Climate Leadership aims to educate students about climate change and give ideas and inspiration in order for them to take action. The three lessons in the tool kit focus on consumerism, food and transportation while addressing climate...
The Power of Peace is a lesson plan designed to allow students to explore the topic of peace, learn about peaceful activists and determine ways to incorporate peace into their school environment and the world around them. During this lesson, the students...
Building on Needs vs Wants, this multi-step lesson contributes to the theme of responsible consumption by focusing attention on how we all can and should work to protect the earth’s natural resources. Through a number of engaging activities...
The Plastic Education Toolkit is a series of seven related classroom lessons during which students will be made aware of their own plastic use and how their actions will have a direct impact on the environment around them. Through these interesting lessons,...
Students identify a near-by flowering tree or shrub to observe throughout the year. Easy to follow instructions and colorful journals (provided) allow young learners to become citizen scientists as they monitor and record key changes in plants at...
This introductory lesson teaches students about the role plastics play in their daily lives. They explore how much and what type plastic that is placed in the recycling box actually gets recycled. Students will learn about the seven categories of...
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...
The Plastic We Eat is the third resource from 10 000 Changes in which students will discuss what they eat, where their food comes from, and how that food is transported from the source to their homes. Through a series of activities, the resource aims...
The short video "A Whale's Tale" and its companion lesson plan will teach the students that even the smallest creatures can make a difference when working together to combat plastics in the ocean. The video tells the story of how marine plastics threaten...
Little Plastic Footprint app helps students reduce the amount of plastic in their daily lives. The app calculates their plastic dependency and offers solutions to reduce it, eliminate it and work towards becoming plastic-free. The app shows you everyday...
Ocean Trash Talk is a one lesson resource that helps introduce the problem of plastic in the oceans. During this lesson, students will be able to identify ways that our use of plastic is harming the ocean and will be able to brainstorm and complete specific...
The goal of the Global School Program Teaching for Grade 1 is to teach students to become active contributing members of their community and to have respect for cultural diversity and an understanding of equality and fairness. The resource is comprised...
The National Indigenous Peoples Day resource is a collection of fun and educational activities for students. Through a variety of fun facts, stories, quizzes, games, colouring pages, and crafts, students learn more about the unique heritage, diverse cultures...
The goal of the Global Schools Teaching Program for Grade 2 is to help students understand the meaning of diversity while exploring and identifying the diversity that exists in the world and their classroom. They will learn to ask thoughtful questions...
In this short animation film, produced by TED-Ed, we explore three possible scenarios regarding the life cycle of a plastic bottle, after it is thrown away. In scenario 1, the bottle ends up in a landfill where its interaction with rain creates a harmful...
Planning for climate resilience features members of the Canadian Institute of Planners explaining how the planning profession is at the forefront of developing policy, capacity, and climate resilience within communities and environments across the country. This...
Lennox Island, home to Prince Edward Island’s Mi’kmaq First Nation for more than 10,000 years now finds itself on the front lines of Canada’s battle against climate change and in danger of disappearing altogether. Through the camera...
The Global Schools Program for Grade 3 aims to teach students about the origin of food, the systems that distribute it and how it impacts the lives of people around the world. The resource is comprised of five lessons. Lesson 1 Origins of Food:...
How Do We Meet The Growing Need For Water? explores key water issues, the water cycle, and some of the technology and techniques used to conserve water. The video describes ways we consume water on earth, like agriculture, manufactures, and ecosystems....
Adapting to Sea Level Rise brings us to Indian Island First Nation that is on a peninsula surrounded by water. Through a combination of traditional knowledge and scientific studies, it became clear to Chief Ken Barlow that this community would be underwater...