• Sustainable Development. What is It?

  This resource will help students develop a firm understanding of sustainable development.  In Activity one, the students will analyze photos and identify the key issues portrayed that are related to sustainable development.  In Activity...

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• Explore and Embrace a Special Wild Place: Gr. 6-8

  With these activities the students discover their own special wild spaces, where they can explore their relationship with the outdoors and develop an appreciation for the natural world. In Activity #1, the students take a field trip to find their own...

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• Climate Change: Creating Solutions for our Future

  This resource focuses on the history of climate change, its present day causes and consequences, how human activities are interconnected with sustaining biodiversity, and the role that students can play in their community to cut down on greenhouse...

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• Water and Sanitation for All: Bringing the Issue Home-Gr. 9–12

  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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• Rights, Wants & Needs Activity Kit

  The Rights, Wants & Needs activity kit introduces students to human rights and citizenship concepts using picture cards and a variety of related activities. The resource explores the idea that the basic needs of children are considered rights. ...

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• Drilling Down to Sustainability

  In this ESD lesson, students are first asked to consider the most sustainable consumer product choice between a non-locally grown organic and a conventionally-grown, local apple. This engaging problem teases students to think about the economic,...

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• I Like Trees

  This resource demonstrates how environmental education can be introduced to students at a very young age through the use of fun activities. The theme of trees helps students develop an awareness of different ways living things are adapted to the places...

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• Whose Responsibility is It?

  This resource introduces students to environmental stewardship and tasks them to develop and implement a personal plan of action to address an environmental issue.  It touches on conservation, citizenship, human-made disasters, natural resources,...

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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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• Lake Winnipeg Water Stewardship-A Resource for Grade 8 Science

  This resource gives Manitoba students the opportunity to deepen their understanding about water systems and concepts related to sustainable development. Through an inquiry into Lake Winnipeg and its watershed, the activities are designed to increase student awareness...

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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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• Gulf Oil Spill-Middle School Version

  This ESD resource uses lessons learned from the Gulf oil spill to promote environmental stewardship.  Classroom activities examine the implications of society's reliance on oil and encourage students to do their part in protecting our planet's water. Using...

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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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