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The Chocolate Trade Game
The Chocolate Trade Game is role-playing game that allows each participant to experience what it might be like to be part of the cocoa trade. Participants learn about fair trade by acting out the various roles in the process from growing beans all...
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Playing With Decimals
This is a math lesson that allows students to practise adding and subtracting decimals. It is designed for students in grades 1 to 6 and draws attention to quality of life differences in developed and developing nations. Students will complete a...
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Taming the Paper Tiger
This resource is designed to educate students about the importance of reducing, reusing and recycling by examining the impact of paper consumption on our environment. K-2 Activities - Students will: review what sorts of paper products are being thrown...
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Growing for a Sustainable Future: Ontario Agriculture and the New Bioeconomy
This teaching resource was written to help students explore the ways in which modern agriculture is producing renewable alternatives to many current products and energy sources. By completing these lessons, students will gain an understanding of...
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Pulling for Biodiversity
Examples used in "Pulling for Biodiversity" are specific to Ontario. It introduces the concept of invasive species, and explains in an interactive and engaging manner why they are destructive and what can done about them. Activities: Activity 1....
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All About Earth
All About Earth: Our World on Stage is a classroom resource that introduces environmental education to students at a very young age through the use of a science-based storybook and inquiry-based learning activities. This resource is designed to increase...
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The Mystery of the Missing Hummingbirds
The Mystery of the Missing Hummingbirds models children asking questions about the natural world and conducting science investigations to explore the world around them. This classroom resource introduces environmental education to students at a...
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Discoveries at Willow Creek
Discoveries at Willow Creek is based on a storybook approach that focuses the attention of young readers on the natural changes that take place in and around a creek. On a second visit to Willow Creek, the GLOBE Kids characters discover why the...
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OzonAction Education Pack
The ESD resource aims at educating students about the protective role of the ozone layer and the causes and consequences of its depletion. Through a variety of practical, hands-on activities students learn concrete and simple solutions to help protect...
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OzonAction Education Pack for Secondary Schools: Sessions 1-4
The Ozonaction Education Pack provides a series of activities that will allow students to learn about the ozone layer, its depletion and possible actions to reduce the use of ozone-depleting substances (ODSs). Students will also develop action...
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Bridges that Unite
This resource encourages students to deepen their understanding of global poverty—to see our connections to the rest of the world, to explore the roots of inequities and to understand the importance of assistance that preserves human dignity, values...
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Good-bye poverty, hello biodiversity
This ESD resource is the third in a series of children's books that explores diversity. It explains the link between declining biodiversity and world poverty. Suitable for the science classroom, it focuses on the relationship between environmental stewardship...
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Exploring Biodiversity: A Guide For Educators Around the World
This teaching resource is designed to explore the ecological and social dimensions of biodiversity with students. The resource introduces fascinating topics, raises challenging questions and guides students to explore, analyse, evaluate and discuss...
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Twenty One Primary School Assemblies
This resource provides guidelines for running a purposeful primary school assembly based on ESD themes for special occasions throughout the year. Assemblies will be based on: New Year's Resolutions, Martin Luther King Day, Holocaust Memorial Day,...
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Teaching Global Sustainability in the Primary Grades
This four-lesson, ESD resource has been designed to provide primary educators with a unique, age-appropriate curriculum that addresses core concepts related to sustainability. Map of Myself: Identity and Culture Students will: explore personal...
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Conserving Water Through Art
This lesson is designed to inform students about the scarcity of water in the world and to encourage them to think about ways that they can conserve water in their own homes. Students will: Discuss the distribution of water on earth and how much water...
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The Big Picture on Biodiversity and Climate Change
This is a highly experiential learning resource that explores the relationship among biodiversity, climate change and human health. In addition to drawing attention to the importance of species diversity the resource provides both ideas and support ...
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LSF's Reusable Bags Action Toolkit for Secondary Students
Reusable Bags is an action toolkit resource emphasizing the importance of reusing in reducing waste and conserving resources, even more so than recycling. Students take action to decrease the number of plastic bags in circulation by constructing their...
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Asthma in the City
This problem-based learning unit focuses on the health effects of poor air quality. Students are asked to explain why one twin has asthma and one does not. Students form groups called Think-Tanks that allow them to research the issue...
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Buy Nothing Day
This lesson plan focuses students attention on the issue of consumerism and asks them to consider its benefits and drawbacks. Students identify the different influences on their spending habits with special attention to the role of the media. ...
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