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Electrify Your Ride
This do-it-yourself resource allows students and teachers to explore the world of electric vehicles. The students complete activities that invite them to think about the modes of transport they use and see around them every day and their impact on the...
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How to feed the world in 2050
The sponsor of the video, the Commission on Sustainable Agriculture and Climate Change, argues that to achieve food security in a changing climate the global community must operate within three limits: the quantity of food that can be produced...
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Climate Change : Passing Gas
In this lesson, students engage in an experiential learning activity, acting out the accumulation of gases in the Earth’s atmosphere. Through this and related activities, the lesson reinforces understanding of the impact of human behavior on climate...
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Energy Dialogues - Fracturing
This video series explores hydraulic fracturing. The introductory video outlines the techniques involved in answering the question – What have natural gas companies been doing to reduce the pollution caused by fracking? It describes the use of steel...
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Energy Dialogue: Wind Power
The resource consists of four videos in response to the question, Why isn’t there more electricity produced by wind generation in Alberta. The first video introduces wind turbines (how they work; where they are located). The second video has...
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Sense Nature
In this outdoor activity students use all of their senses to discover local and native species of plants and animals along with their habitat needs. Students also learn how the information from their senses combine to create an awareness of the natural...
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Let's Ban the Bead
This 2-minute short takes on plastic microbeads - the little bits of plastic that companies have been putting in everything from body washes and hand soaps to toothpaste and makeup. In it, the authors show how microbeads are designed to go down the drain...
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Winter Storms
Major snowfalls are generally associated with winter storm systems that move across the country. The purpose of this exercise is to demonstrate the relationship between the areas of heavy snowfall and the movement of the winter cyclone air masses. Students...
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Of Forests and Men
This short documentary was directed by award-winning director, Yann Arthus-Bertrand who was appointed by the United Nations to produce an official film for the International Year of Forests. The film uses aerial images from the acclaimed Home and the...
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The Monarch Migration
In this engaging simulation, students become monarch butterflies and experience the challenges of the fall journey to Mexico. After discussing what migration is and why different species migrate, students follow a script that introduces different...
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Global Warming: It's all about carbon
This five-clip video package delivers an animated and highly entertaining chemistry lesson on the elemental cause of global warming- the behavior of the carbon atom. Mini-episodes explain how carbon atoms form bonds in living things that over time make...
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The Voice of an Island
This book by Lupe Vaai demonstrates the current realities of climate change. Katalina, a determined schoolgirl, decides to take matters into her own hands. Growing up in a polluted environment, filled with dust and garbage cans, Katalina decides that...
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The Trouble with Dragons
Everyone knows that dragons are not real but in this delightful story the fanciful creatures come to life and take over Earth. Unfortunately the dragons are very irresponsible and as they cut down trees, blow hot air and toss garbage the world around...
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Winston of Churchill
Just like his famous namesake, Winston the polar bear is a leader and fighter whose cause is global warming and its impacts on the ice of Hudson's Bay. Winston knows that to save his home he must educate the human visitors who come to observe the...
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Saving Planet Earthly - Book 1
Saving Planet Earthly is the first book in a series of adventures of Thoko and her friends from around the world. They learn how climate change affects them and the plants and animals they live with. This series of books is electronic with the option...
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The Secret of the First One Up
Lila the groundhog is curious about the early awakening of her Uncle Wilbur each year. As she snuggles into her cozy bed for her long winter sleep Lila is determined to solve the mystery by being the first one up. Sure enough she rises before...
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Alien Invaders: Species that threaten our world
This book provides students with a comprehensive introduction to invasive species and the significant impacts of these species on our natural world. Engaging text that treats the topic like a horror movie highlights how biodiversity is reduced by...
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Nibi's Water Song
Nibi's Water Song tells the story of a young Indigenous girl on the search for clean drinking water. When clean water cannot be found in her home, she searches her community to no avail. Even though she faces numerous challenges, Nibi does...
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My Name Is Henry Bibb
Henry Bibb became a pivotal leader in the abolitionist movement by using the power of the written word to publish Canada’s first Black newspaper, “The Voice of the Fugitive”. This moving novel depicts Henry’s life from a...
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Chakra the Invincible
This book explores the importance of gender equality using a comic book format. The authors bring their character Chakra the Invincible to teach children about the global goals! Chakra takes to the streets of Mumbai to teach children a lesson on gender...
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