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Treat it Right® Storm Water
This teaching unit consists of four lessons that address issues connected to urban storm water management including water quality, water-borne materials, erosion and deposition, stream characteristics, continental drainage systems and human impacts. Lesson...
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LSF's Building a Vermicomposter Action Toolkit for Secondary Students
This ESD resource focuses on a sustainable approach to managing organic waste. Students explore the environmental, social and economic aspects of waste disposal and apply what they have learned by building and operating a vermicomposter. This action toolkit...
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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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Energy Conservation Learning Activities- Middle School
This resource provides a grade by grade progression of ecological concepts related to energy conservation. Grade 4: The students participate in an interactive activity in which they physically map out a diverse forested area in their...
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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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Tapped Out: The World Water Crisis
This resource explores many of the international debates which surround water. Is water a commodity or a human right? Should it be managed privately or publicly? What are the current and future threats to water? Students research current issues...
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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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Sustainable Engineering
This activity-based, ESD resource integrates sustainability issues into the teaching of engineering, technology and product design concepts. Students are asked to describe and evaluate the impacts of engineering on the environment and to reflect on their...
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Amphibial Pursuits FrogWatch Teachers’ Guide
Amphibial Pursuits is the teachers’ guide to Frogwatch a program through which students learn to identify frogs by sound and contribute valuable scientific information to a national amphibian monitoring program. This guide is a multi-disciplinary...
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Flo and Eddy's Water Adventure
This story follows the silly duo of Flo, the pelican and Eddy the cormorant as they head out on their fall migration. Initially they get lost, but soon find their route using waterways to guide them. As they travel they experience water in...
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Penny Visits Oak Hammock Marsh
In this story Penny's grandfather takes her on a field trip to Oak Hammock Marsh, Manitoba. Grandpa Brown is an avid naturalist who teaches Penny all about the birds and other animals they see. When they stop for lunch Penny learns an important...
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The Little Hummingbird
This Indigenous folk tale focuses on the message that we should do everything we can to protect our environment. All of the animals flee a great fire that is burning their forest, except for the little hummingbird. She carries water one drop at...
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Someday a Tree
A young girl loves to spend time with her mum and her dog under their huge oak tree. But one day they discover the tree has been poisoned by someone who carelessly poured a toxic substance on the ground. The girl, her parents and all of the...
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The Busy Beaver
The beaver in this story is so busy felling trees that he puts no thought into his actions. Consequently he causes devastation in the forest. Finally the busy beaver's carelessness results in an accident. From his hospital room the beaver...
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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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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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Butterfly House
In this beautiful picture book a young girl saves a caterpillar and takes it to her grandfather. With his help she makes a butterfly house with everything a caterpillar needs. They watch the larva change from caterpillar to chrysalis to butterfly. ...
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Call Me Gorgeous
The vivid illustrations in this book were created using coloured pencils and handmade papers from around the world. Each picture is of a different animal part such as reindeer antlers, crocodile teeth and bat wings. The combination of all...
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In My World
Appropriate for very young children, this book encouarges young people to appreciate nature using their five senses. Using descriptive words and cut-out pictures the book illustrates bugs, frogs, stars and many other things that a child can see...
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Hey! Get Off Our Train
In this imaginative tale a boy and his dog board a toy train at bedtime. They travel the world meeting several different endangered species along the way. When the boy hears the animals' sad stories he decides he must help them. ...
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