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Earth Scouts Facilitator's Handbook K-2
This resource is designed to be used by educators as a tool to teach about environmental integrity, social justice, democracy, nonviolence and peace through a variety of age-appropriate activities. It provides detailed outlines for four main...
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Engaging Students in Conservation; Protecting the Endangered Snow Leopard
These five engaging lessons can stand alone or be used as a comprehensive unit to help students explore issues and topics related to snow leopards and conservation. Students will: understand the pressures and the interconnectedness of these pressures...
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Fall Monarch Migration
This resource engages students in a study of wildlife migration by tracking the fall flight of monarch butterflies to Mexico. Using an on-line tool, Canadian students track monarch butterfly sightings in early fall, along with students from the United...
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Debris Dilemma
This resource uses a video lesson, a fast-paced interactive game, and a group activity to highlight the ongoing problems that plastics and other forms of garbage create for marine environments and the animals that live there. After watching a powerful...
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Chemicals, The Environment, and You
This inquiry-based resource focuses on the science of toxicology and introduces students to the methods scientists use to determine how chemicals can both help and harm human health. Active learning is promoted and student interest stimulated through...
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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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Butterfly Life Cycle
This resource consists of a series of lessons designed to teach students about the life cycle of a butterfly as well as the range of current threats facing this creature. Students will: create a butterfly craft. match colors in nature...
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The Greens: Activity Guide
This web-based resource consists of a series of six core activities designed to educate students about the need for waste minimization and management. A clear message is the importance of reducing our individual footprints on the environment. Students...
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Water and Sanitation for All: Bringing the Issue Home
Water and Sanitation for All consists of three lessons designed to raise awareness of the issues facing children with inadequate access to clean water or sanitation facilities. Lesson 1: Students explore through reading and discussion, the “big...
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Water and Sanitation for All: Bringing the Issue Home
Water and Sanitation for All is a unit of three lessons designed to raise awareness of the problems facing children with inadequate access to clean water or sanitation and provide insight into the ways in which people and agencies are working to resolve...
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The Children's Parliament
The Children’s Parliament resource kit teaches democracy and citizenry skills to students while giving them an official forum to voice their own concerns and solutions to local and global issues. The aim of the project is to inform youth about political...
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Wetland Metaphors
This hands-on activity is designed to help young students understand the importance of wetland ecosystems. Specific wetland functions are represented by a collection of common household items. For example a sponge is used to illustrate the...
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Explore and Embrace a Special Wild Place: K-4
Explore and Embrace a Special Wild Place helps students discover their own special wild spaces where they can explore their relationship with the wild. As they come to know the wild creatures that share their space, they'll learn that, although such places...
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Monarch Butterfly: Royal Mail
This unit is most relevant to students living on the migratory pathway of the Monarch butterfly. They will be part of an international project to collect and report information on migration and habitat. Some of the background information may be useful...
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Native Species: Nature's Choice
This resource examines the impact of invasive species on habitats, biodiversity and the web of life. Five lessons offer hands-on, inquiry-based learning activities to raise student awareness of alien species and the need to restore native species....
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Sustainable Development. What is It?
This resource will help students develop a firm understanding of sustainable development. In Activity one, the students will analyze photos and identify the key issues portrayed that are related to sustainable development. In Activity...
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Explore and Embrace a Special Wild Place: Gr. 6-8
With these activities the students discover their own special wild spaces, where they can explore their relationship with the outdoors and develop an appreciation for the natural world. In Activity #1, the students take a field trip to find their own...
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Water and Sanitation for All: Bringing the Issue Home
Water and Sanitation for All is a unit of three lessons designed to raise awareness of the problems facing children with inadequate access to clean water or sanitation and provide insight into the ways in which people and agencies are working to resolve...
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Rights, Wants & Needs Activity Kit
The Rights, Wants & Needs activity kit introduces students to human rights and citizenship concepts using picture cards and a variety of related activities. The resource explores the idea that the basic needs of children are considered rights. ...
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Drilling Down to Sustainability
In this ESD lesson, students are first asked to consider the most sustainable consumer product choice between a non-locally grown organic and a conventionally-grown, local apple. This engaging problem teases students to think about the economic,...
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