• A Teacher's Guide for the Video Sila Alangotok - Inuit Observations on Climate Change

  Sila Alangotok- Inuit Observations on Climate Change is a teacher’s guide to the video of the same name that chronicles the work of Canadian researchers who spent a year in Sach’s Harbour learning about the effects of climate change from the...

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• Penguins on Thin Ice

  Penguins on Thin Ice is an eclectic web site put together by the non-profit organization, Irthlingz Arts Based Environmental Education and offers a musical review about climate change. This musical revue consists of a compilation of songs and scripts...

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• Understanding Climate Change in Grade 11 and 12 Geography

  This resource identifies locations within Ontario's high school geography curriculum where teachers can address climate change.  Teaching suggestions, case studies, learning activities, guiding questions and additional resources related to climate...

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• Canada's Forests: A Breath of Fresh Air- Vol. 2

  This comprehensive resource contains a series of nine lessons that explore climate change and its impact on Canada's forest including the removal of carbon from the atmosphere via photosynthesis. Students will explore the contributions forests make...

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• LSF's No Idling Action Toolkit for Middle Years and Secondary Students

  After learning about the negative effects of vehicle idling, students monitor traffic at their school to determine if idling is an important local issue. Students analyze their data and assuming idling is an issue, document their findings through...

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• Canada's Boreal Forest: Tradition and Transition

  This nine-lesson resource targeted for both middle school (lessons 1,2,4,5,6) and high school (lessons 3,7,8,9), promotes an understanding of the importance of the Canadian Boreal Forest in terms of its biodiversity, unique habitats, and wealth of...

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• Canada's Forests: All Things Big and Small

  This resource examines the biodiversity and the complexity of the various life forms that make up Canadian forests. The emphasis is on helping students appreciate the relationships and interdependence of all species in this ecosystem.  Students learn...

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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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• What’s All the Buzz About?

  Students learn about vectors and the spread of infectious diseases. Students will develop hypotheses about how climate change may affect vectors, the pathogens they carry, and the diseases they spread. They perform an experiment to...

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• Ocean Acidification

  This resource features experiential learning opportunities that examine the effect of global warming on marine environments. Students conduct experiments to simulate ocean acidification resulting from excess carbon dioxide and then discuss the relationship...

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• My 2050 School's Toolkit

  By 2050 young people will be living with the choices made today. A 13 year old today will be 52 years old in 2050 and may have children of their own. What future would they choose?  My 2050 School's Toolkit lets students decide how they would fuel...

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• Sunny Schools Resources

  This six-lesson resource aims to increase understanding and awareness of climate change and its impacts around the world. Through a variety of engaging activities students learn about renewable energy in a global context and are encouraged to take positive...

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• Judy Moody Saves the World

  As one volume in the Judy Moody series, this book has all of the usual humorous characters and wit that has made these stories so popular.  Judy Moody wonders how one person can "heal the world".  She tries to get her family to rethink the products...

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• Sustainable Food

  Author and activist Michael Pollan, a passionate advocate for sustainable food, explores how our industrial food system keeps us overly dependent on fossil fuels, destroys our environment, and makes us sick. In doing so, Pollan links the current approach...

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• Chasing Ice

  The film footage is a powerful statement about the effects of global warming that is difficult to dismiss in any climate change discussion. "It's like watching Manhattan break apart in front of your eyes", says one of the researchers in describing the...

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• Three Hundred Years of Fossil Fuels in Three Hundred Seconds

  This video uses a series of simple graphics to trace our dependence on fossil fuels from coal and the Industrial Revolution to our current (according to the authors) situation, characterized by increasing population and industrialism, leading to increased...

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• Global Warming: A Way Forward

  A Way Forward: Facing Climate Change explores the global impact of climate change and its devastating effects and outlines a response suggested by United Nations' scientists.  A series of powerful images highlight the current evidence and possible...

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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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• This Bulb

  In this short video, Natalie Portman, Kyra Sedgwick and Chloe Sevigny explain how small changes in lifestyle will have a big impact in reversing the effects of greenhouse gas emissions.  They convincingly make the argument that changing one light...

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• Local Connections to Global Issues- Health

  This wonderful ESD resource addresses the links that exist between climate change and the spread of infectious disease.  Focus is placed on understanding the issue and looking for solutions.  While the resource examines conditions experienced...

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