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Plastics Challenge
In this comprehensive STEM resource students investigate the properties of plastics and find solutions to problems caused by plastic waste globally. The increased use of plastics is creating a huge environmental challenge for both industrialized...
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Do Your Storm Drains Keep the Ocean Trash Free?
In this STEM activity, the students will test the efficiency of the storm drain inlets found in their community. The resource aims to help students determine what types of litter are around their community and may be entering the local stormwater drainage...
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Cultivating Peace in the 21st Century
Students undertake an exploration of seven topics related to cultivating peace through a variety of learning activities. This resource is designed to help students develop a better understanding of the forces that can bring about tragedies such...
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Inuit Knowledge and Climate Change
Qapirangajuq: Inuit Knowledge and Climate Change is the world’s first Inuktitut-language film on the topic of climate change. The film is an intimate portrait of Inuit life told in the voices of Inuit elders and hunters, who detail the social and...
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All the Water in the World
This resource allows students to gain an awareness about the ways water is used in the Canadian economy. They will learn about the amount of water Canadians consume and how this is divided within the home. Students will compare their family’s and...
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Our Changing Climate for Grades 3 to 6
This resource is aimed at elementary students and provides an entry point to climate change education through the language arts. It was created with the idea that teaching about climate change at the elementary level is possible if the curriculum provides...
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The Power of Peace
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...
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This Just In
In the main activity of the resource students research and deliver a mock news cast on the topic of "Biodiversity on Earth". After reading and discussing the WWF's Living Planet Report the students summarize its content and reflect on why the report serves...
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Tree Tour
Tree Tour is a lesson plan that strives to foster an understanding of and an appreciation for nature in middle grade students. Using the Project Noah app the students will locate, map and identify trees to create a digital reference for a local...
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Personal Consumption and Climate Change
The toolkit is designed to support and encourage teachers, tutors and lecturers to integrate some of the concepts of sustainable development into teaching and learning. It focuses in particular on using photographs and a range of active teaching and learning...
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Biodiversity, Food and Farming for a Healthy Planet
This resource provides a complete package for teachers to educate students about agriculture and how human activities have profound impacts on the ecosystems and biodiversity of our planet. Each lesson is organized with an introductory description, curriculum...
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Global Schools Program Grade 9
Students will examine topics related to women's rights and gender equality through literature. Using these literary portrayals of women, students will explore gender inequality as it exists at the local, national, and global levels. Finally, students...
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Global Schools Program Grade 8
Through a variety of activities and discussions, students will explore the theme of injustice: what is means, how it manifests in everyday life, and how it contributes to larger social dynamics. Students will also evaluate our shared values, discuss why...
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The Human Impact of Climate Change
These activities explore the human impact of the climate emergency and provide new spaces, approaches and opportunities for climate education and social action The resource frames the climate emergency as a human rights and people-centred issue and...
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Plastic Education Kit: 10-11
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,...
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Carbon: A Unit For Years 5 and 6
This student-led inquiry explores the element carbon as a building block of matter, a source of energy and a key culprit in greenhouse gas production and climate change. Following an introduction to these key themes, students generate essential...
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What’s Globalization Got To Do With Me?
Students explore ways in which they are linked to flows of people, capital, goods and services around the world; discuss advantages and disadvantages of globalisation; and analyse the intercultural understandings that inform working in a global context....
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Image Conveys a Powerful Voice: Yours
Image Conveys a Powerful Voice: Yours! is a lesson plan designed for secondary students in preparation for Martin Luther King, Jr. Day. The students will use visual literacy skills to analyze the components and message of an image. The students will identify...
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An Energy Project for the Global Goals
This resource has students compare and contrast their use of electricity, gas usage and paper waste with another school. The two main aspects of the activity are data collection and brainstorming ways to reduce consumption. Each school will monitor their...
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What is the Future of Earth's Climate?
Through a series of guided questions, students explore the question, what will Earth's climate be in the future? Students will not be able to answer the question at the end of the lesson, but they will be able to explain how scientists can be certain...
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