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Food Miles: Growing Local Food Connections (Middle Level)
This ESD resource will enlighten students about where their food comes from and the importance of a healthy diet. Activities are designed to develop environmental citizenship and promote action that will help to reduce food miles as a conscious contribution...
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Y Adapt
Students learn about global climate change and its impacts before taking action to improve climate resiliency within their own communities. The resource consists of 6 lessons or sessions that engage students in a wide range of hands on activities, exercises,...
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Earth: It's Everybody's Home
In this climate education activity, students use Google Earth tools to explore our natural world and learn more about youth climate activists and the work they are doing to stand up for our planet. Students will: explore what it means to be an...
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Climate Justice and Action through Art
Climate Justice and Action through Art allows students to explore their local environment in a creative manner to create an art piece that leads to a discussion of protecting the environment and through a second project to develop an appreciation of indigenous...
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Schoolyard Bioblitz Education Kit
The Schoolyard Bioblitz involves students in a hands-on activity to encourage an appreciation of local plants, animals and habitats while exploring the concept of biodiversity. The resource is made up of six lessons: 1. Students participate in a fun activity...
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What World Do You Want in 2030?
This resource has students envision a world where the Global Goals have been achieved. The resource begins with an activity designed to provide an entry point to the Goals, either one Goal or a theme from the Goals. Students view an animation to learn...
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Adapting to a Changing World
In this unit, students assess individual and national opinions on climate change and explore strategies that communities are employing to adapt to aspects of climate change that are already affecting them or may affect them in the future. They will complete...
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The Israel-Palestine Conflict
The Israel-Palestine conflict is one of the most controversial issues in our contemporary world. This resource approaches the conflict through the vehicle of narrative constructed through the judicious use of facts and perspectives. The unit...
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Exploring Canada's Energy Future
This resource was created to support teachers in using the Exploring Canada's Energy Future Interactive Tool with their students. Based on data from Energy Futures reports, this tool allows students to explore energy production and consumption trends...
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Waste Not, Want Not
Waste Not, Want not is the fourth resource from 10,000 Changes that provides an opportunity for educators to explore key themes and concepts connected with plastic use and how to eliminate plastic in our daily lives. In this three part lesson, students...
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Global Schools Program Grade 11
Students will focus on different aspects of gender: stereotypes, the role gender plays in everyday life, and its impact on larger global dynamics. Students will learn about the concept of positive deviance, and learn how they can promote change...
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Natural Gas: A Cleaner Energy Solution or Just Another Fossil Fuel?
Students explore current information about natural gas and compare its greenhouse gas emissions to those of other fossil fuels. They take positions and debate the question: Should we expand our use of natural gas as an energy resource, using it...
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Design for Change: One Idea! One Week!
Design for Change outlines a process by which students identify a problem and collectively design and execute a plan to remedy the problem. The process,as outlined, involves four steps - feel, imagine, do and share. The four steps are realized through...
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Cultural Perspectives on Sustainability
The activities in this resource provide background information on a First Nations and Métis perspective or worldview and their respective concept of sustainability. The lessons were developed to address objectives from the unit entitled Life Science:...
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Biodiversity Mosaic
Students design an individual mosaic square that depicts what biodiversity means to them. All of the squares are then assembled to create one collaborative piece that raises awareness about the importance of protecting biodiversity. The lesson begins...
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Hidden Plastics
Students will be introduced to the term hidden plastics and will participate in an activity that analyzes everyday items that could potentially contain these materials. Students will view the Hidden Plastics video and explore the associated infographic...
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World Climate Simulation
Students step into the role of delegates to a world climate summit and negotiate an international climate agreement designed to achieve the 2 degree warming threshold (as agreed to in Paris at COP21). In addition to gaining an understanding of counter...
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Winter is Coming!
This resource teaches students about the seasonal adaptations of local wildlife through a diverse set of activities that incorporate games, displays and habitat investigations. Students examine the changes in appearance and behaviour that occur...
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What a Dump!
In this STEM activity, students learn about environmental, civil, and sanitation engineering by designing and building model landfills that hold the most garbage, minimize costs, and prevent trash and contaminated rainwater from polluting the nearby city. ...
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Building awareness of climate sensitive infectious diseases in Canada
The lessons in the following toolkit are designed to guide students towards an early understanding of climate change, and the impact it is having on all living things. One of the consequences of these changes is the increasing presence of climate sensitive...
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