• Is it Sustainable?

  This lesson introduces students to the concept of sustainable development and provides them with an opportunity to explore its principles.  The three components of sustainability:  economy, environment, and society are explained to...

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• Wetlands and the World Program

  The Wetlands and the World program features an activity guide consisting of a series of engaging lessons designed to increase student understanding and appreciation of wetlands and at the same time developing their English language literacy...

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• Lesson 2: Land Use Picture Project

  Using a digital camera to document local landscapes as they are today, students explore how changes in human land use are creating social impacts and impacting local environments. Five student photographers from the class are asked to take photos between...

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• Real World Math-Lessons 7, 9 and 12

  This three-lesson math package promotes the development of math skills within the context of teaching about global issues and sustainability. Using real data students participate in activities that touch on credit card debt and national budgeting, investigate...

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• Earth Scouts Facilitator's Handbook K-2

  This resource is designed to be used by educators as a tool to teach about environmental integrity, social justice, democracy, nonviolence and peace through a variety of age-appropriate activities.  It provides detailed outlines for four main...

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• Engaging Students in Conservation; Protecting the Endangered Snow Leopard

  These five engaging lessons can stand alone or be used as a comprehensive unit to help students explore issues and topics related to snow leopards and conservation. Students will: understand the pressures and the interconnectedness of these pressures...

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• Fall Monarch Migration

  This resource engages students in a study of wildlife migration by tracking the fall flight of monarch butterflies to Mexico. Using an on-line tool, Canadian students track monarch butterfly sightings in early fall, along with students from the United...

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• Debris Dilemma

  This resource uses a video lesson, a fast-paced interactive game, and a group activity to highlight the ongoing problems that plastics and other forms of garbage create for marine environments and the animals that live there. After watching a powerful...

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• Chemicals, The Environment, and You

  This inquiry-based resource focuses on the science of toxicology and introduces students to the methods scientists use to determine how chemicals can both help and harm human health. Active learning is promoted and student interest stimulated through...

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• Teaching Geography Through a Sustainability Lens

  This kit was created to thread sustainability-related knowledge, skills and attitudes throughout the Ontario grade nine geography course. While the kit consists of separate modules designed to match the conventional units of study in the Ontario...

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• Butterfly Life Cycle

  This resource consists of a series of lessons designed to teach students about the life cycle of a butterfly as well as the range of current threats facing this creature.  Students will: create a butterfly craft. match colors in nature...

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• The Greens: Activity Guide

  This web-based resource consists of a series of six core activities designed to educate students about the need for waste minimization and management.  A clear message is the importance of reducing our individual footprints on the environment. Students...

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• Whooping Cranes

  This web-based resource is designed to engage students in a study of wildlife migration by tracking the flights of whooping cranes. Canadian students track, monitor, and study whooping crane sightings along with students in the United States. These flights...

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• Water and Sanitation for All: Bringing the Issue Home

  Water and Sanitation for All consists of three lessons designed to raise awareness of the issues facing children with inadequate access to clean water or sanitation facilities.  Lesson 1: Students explore through reading and discussion, the “big...

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• Water and Sanitation for All: Bringing the Issue Home Gr. 3-5

  Water and Sanitation for All is a unit of three lessons designed to raise awareness of the problems facing children with inadequate access to clean water or sanitation and provide insight into the ways in which people and agencies are working to resolve...

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• The Children's Parliament

  The Children’s Parliament resource kit teaches democracy and citizenry skills to students while giving them an official forum to voice their own concerns and solutions to local and global issues. The aim of the project is to inform youth about political...

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• Wetland Metaphors

  This hands-on activity is designed to help young students understand the importance of wetland ecosystems.  Specific wetland functions are represented by a collection of common household items.  For example a sponge is used to illustrate the...

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• Explore and Embrace a Special Wild Place: K-4

  Explore and Embrace a Special Wild Place helps students discover their own special wild spaces where they can explore their relationship with the wild. As they come to know the wild creatures that share their space, they'll learn that, although such places...

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• Monarch Butterfly: Royal Mail

  This unit is most relevant to students living on the migratory pathway of the Monarch butterfly. They will be part of an international project to collect and report information on migration and habitat. Some of the background information may be useful...

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• Native Species: Nature's Choice

  This resource examines the impact of invasive species on habitats, biodiversity and the web of life. Five lessons offer hands-on, inquiry-based learning activities to raise student awareness of alien species and the need to restore native species....

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