• Five Minute Fieldtrips

  The activities in Five Minute Field Trips are grouped into three sections: Awareness, Understanding and Action. The Awareness section consists of outdoor activities that are sensory and experiential giving kids a chance to reconnect with the...

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• Reducing Global Consumption

  This resource focuses attention on the relationship between  human consumption and environmental degradation, with particular attention paid to declining biodiversity.  Students first become familiar with  a number of concepts including...

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• Kids vs Global Warming

  This video portrays Alec Loorz, a remarkable teenager who crusades against global warming.  Some of his many accomplishments include his ingenious iMatter campaign, and other environmental education initiatives all designed to appeal to youth. ...

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• The Pale Blue Dot

  Images that show the Earth as a dot- a small stage in a vast cosmic arena - accompanied by Carl Sagan's narrative that reminds us of the role we have played on that stage - the rivers of blood that we have shed, the illusion that we have some privileged...

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• Tread Lightly: Low Carbon Lunch

  Using an inquiry-based learning approach, this resource helps students see how to reduce their carbon footprint by paying particular attention to their food choices. Students will discover how food choices can impact the environment. To reach these...

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• Wonderful World

  This short video offers brilliant footage of the absolute beauty of our natural world highlighting the biodiversity of the Earth's plant and animal species, living in a variety of habitats. These powerful images, often shown with time-lapsed photography...

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• Litter We Know

  This activity engages students in environmental stewardship as they work together to conduct a clean-up of the school grounds.  The learning also includes a math component as the class sorts and graphs the type of litter they collect.  The interdisciplinary...

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• Big Picture Project: A Beautiful Planet

  The Big Picture Project provides a unique perspective on the changing earth through the eyes of an astronaut and empowers students to take small actions in their everyday lives that will have major impact on the planet.  Students watch the trailer...

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• Earth We're in it Together

  This upbeat music video reminds us that we only have one earth and as citizens of the world we must all care about the environment   The appealing lyrics will have students singing along as they consider how their actions can impact our planet. ...

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• Calculating and Interpreting Your Ecological Footprint

  Students explore the concept of ecological footprint, calculate their own "footprint", consider what individual measures might reduce that footprint, and debate the merits of government regulation and technology in reducing our ecological impact. A paper...

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• Climate Kids

  Climate Kids is an interactive website that encourages students to take action on climate change. Through a series of informative games, activities and quizzes students become informed about climate change issues which empowers them to take action. The...

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• Reduce, Reuse, Recycle

  Building on Needs vs Wants,  this multi-step lesson contributes to the theme of responsible consumption by focusing attention on how we all can and should work to protect the earth’s natural resources. Through a number of engaging activities...

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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 Change Education Learning Resource

  This resource provides fun and interactive activities to help students understand the importance of keeping our land and oceans healthy and clean. The resource is divided into two main activities. Activity One: Blue Carbon - will help students understand...

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• You Can Live Without Producing Trash

  Did you know the average American produces 4.3 pounds of trash per day? In this eye-opening short video, Laura Ling will show us how one New York woman is making an effort to change the way we think about waste. Over the past two years, Lauren Singer...

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• Countdown

  To need or to want are two different things. This interactive game helps students analyse what is most essential to them. Student collaborate in teams in order to identify and analyse what is essential and what is not. As the teacher reads different scenes,...

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• The Lorax

  The now remorseful Once-ler, our faceless, bodiless narrator, tells the story himself. Long ago this enterprising villain chances upon a place filled with wondrous Truffula Trees, Swomee-Swans, Brown Bar-ba- loots, and Humming-Fishes. Bewitched by the...

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• Lessons from Mother Earth

  In this First Nation story, Tess learns from her grandmother that her “garden” is all of nature that surrounds her.  As they pick plants and berries, they do so carefully and with respect.  Tess discovers that if she cares for the...

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• Miss Rumphius

  Great-aunt Alice Rumphius grew up dreaming about traveling the world and living by the sea.  She also wanted to do something to make the world a more beautiful place.  As an adult, Miss Rumphius visited many faraway places and finally settled...

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• The Elders are Watching

  Art and poetry combine in this powerful book that delivers an important message about human relationships with nature.   As the elders watch the rampant destruction of natural resources through activities like mining, logging and over harvest...

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