• Energy Efficiency-Middle School Version

  This sustainability resource uses experiential learning, guided questioning, video presentation and research to help students recognize how their own electricity use impacts the growing demand for electricity. The activities effectively address the environmental...

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• Bridges that Unite

  This resource encourages students to deepen their understanding of global poverty—to see our connections to the rest of the world, to explore the roots of inequities and to understand the importance of assistance that preserves human dignity, values...

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• Good-bye poverty, hello biodiversity

  This ESD resource is the third in a series of children's books that explores diversity. It explains the link between declining biodiversity and world poverty. Suitable for the science classroom, it focuses on the relationship between environmental stewardship...

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• Exploring Biodiversity: A Guide For Educators Around the World

  This teaching resource is designed to explore the ecological and social dimensions of biodiversity with students.  The resource introduces fascinating topics, raises challenging questions and guides students to explore, analyse, evaluate and discuss...

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• Twenty One Primary School Assemblies

  This resource provides guidelines for running a purposeful primary school assembly based on ESD themes for special occasions throughout the year.  Assemblies will be based on: New Year's Resolutions, Martin Luther King Day, Holocaust Memorial Day,...

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• Teaching Global Sustainability in the Primary Grades

  This four-lesson, ESD resource has been designed to provide primary educators with a unique, age-appropriate curriculum that addresses core concepts related to sustainability.  Map of Myself: Identity and Culture Students will: explore personal...

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• Conserving Water Through Art

  This lesson is designed to inform students about the scarcity of water in the world and to encourage them to think about ways that they can conserve water in their own homes. Students will: Discuss the distribution of water on earth and how much water...

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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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• LSF's Reusable Bags Action Toolkit for Secondary Students

  Reusable Bags is an action toolkit resource emphasizing the importance of reusing in reducing waste and conserving resources, even more so than recycling. Students take action to decrease the number of plastic bags in circulation by constructing their...

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• Dirty Air and Bright Lights

  Students are presented with the relationship of bright lights, holiday lights and other intense uses of electricity in terms of the effects on air quality, and the subsequent effect on human health. If dirty air makes people sick, what can be...

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• Asthma in the City

  This problem-based learning unit focuses on the health effects of poor air quality.  Students are asked to explain why one twin has asthma and one does not. Students form groups called Think-Tanks that allow them to research the issue...

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• Buy Nothing Day

  This lesson plan focuses students attention on the issue of consumerism and asks them to consider its benefits and drawbacks.  Students identify the different influences on their spending habits with special attention to the role of the media. ...

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• Junior Pest Investigators Teacher's Guide

  Junior Pest Investigators Teacher’s Guide In this engaging classroom resource young learners take on the role of Pest Investigators to track down solutions to common pest problems that minimize harm to human health and the environment.   Along...

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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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• Healthy Youth, Healthy Community (Grades 6-8)

  The purpose of this teaching unit is to introduce students to healthy living habits both for themselves as well as their community. Collectively, the unit lesson plans focus on the question - Why is it important to practice healthy living habits and advocate...

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• Clean Air, Healthy Children

  These education materials and lesson plans are designed to introduce young children to the concepts of respiratory health, air quality and caring for the environment.  The unit begins by providing a comprehensive background to support teaching/learning...

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• Healthy Youth, Healthy Community ( Grades 9-12)

  This ESD classroom resource introduces students to healthy living habits for themselves as well as their community. They demonstrate their knowledge by participating in various activities that encourage healthy food choices, exercising and helping others...

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• Sustainable Economics Lesson Plan

  This resource focuses on the concept of responsible purchasing and sustainable consumption. By analyzing the production, consumption and disposal of everyday items, students make connections between product choices and social, economic and environmental...

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• Growing Up Wild

  Growing Up WILD is an early childhood education program that promotes a sense of wonder in children about nature and invites them to explore wildlife and the world around them.  Through a wide range of outdoor activities and nature-themed experiences,...

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• LSF's Food for Thought Action Toolkit for Secondary Students

  This ESD resource has students analyze the global food system from a ‘systems’ perspective to develop a better understanding of the important issues related to where their food comes from. Part. A. Students watch a video that explores...

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