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This unit/module is designed as a curriculum resource for teachers who want to use a school food garden as an "outdoor classroom" where students can experience hands-on learning in many areas of the curriculum. This unit will provide year round learning...
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Protected Areas: Preserving Our Future explores the concepts, values and practices that underlie the idea of protected areas, such as parks and ecological reserves, by considering what we protect as individuals, why we protect certain things...
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The purpose of this education package is to ensure students connect climate change to the effects it is already having on children living in the world's most vulnerable communities. The pack is divided into four sections:
Know More - three activities...
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This resource provides 9 distinct lessons (gr. 4 to 12 levels) on topics related to Species at Risk and the role of forests in sheltering and supporting wildlife species in Canada. The lessons follow the Pan-Canadian curriculum and are designed...
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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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Students embark on a mythical quest where they learn to measure and then reduce their Ecological Footprint. The quest is made up of four stages. In the first stage, the students study the footprint left by their feet and their lifestyle. In the second...
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After learning about the negative effects of vehicle idling, students monitor traffic at their school to determine if idling is an important local issue.
Students analyze their data and assuming idling is an issue, document their findings through...
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Web-based secondary lesson on the challenge to get diesel dependent Northern communities onto alternative energy in order to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, cut costs and reduce local air pollution by diesel generators. Students will:use web-search...
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This is a comprehensive resource consisting of three lessons intended to teach high school students about the splendor, importance and stewardship aspects of Canada’s National Parks.
The first lesson, The Path Before Us, leads students in a multimedia...
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Students learn about the problem of urban runoff through background information. They go outside and identify problem areas while mapping the school yard during a rain event. In class, students can analyse their map and create an...
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Future, Tense is an on-line activity that introduces students to the key global sustainability issues the world is facing today. Four assignments help students survey causes, impacts and solutions relating to a broad range of global issues from climate...
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This resource comes with a Multimedia presentation: The Impacts of Climate Change and it is possible to order by filling up the form available inside the document.
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This resource has been designed to help teachers and students learn about how species become endangered, the problems of extinction and how we can help to solve the problems. The activities are learner-centered and experiential in nature. Students will...
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This module introduces the teacher and the students to spaces and species in British Columbia most affected by the activities of B.C.'s human population. Students will explore processes which lead to extinction.
Module 4 begins with an active game of...
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In this lesson, students compare energy use and CO2 emissions in their own country and compare it to the USA and to China. They research and discuss energy use and sustainable energy solutions, write a resolution regarding energy use and present...
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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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Cycle of Life/Recycle Educator’s Handbook and CD focuses on educating students to discover and learn about the world they live in. The resource provides ways students can help endangered species by doing something as easy and simple as recycling...
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The American Environmental Exchange Box activity has students prepare an environmental exchange box. This activity lets students learn more about their own region and things that are special about it, particularly with regard to conservation and...
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Activity 1: Measuring Pollution (Basic level - gr.3 to5)
Students conduct basic sampling techniques for air and water quality in and around their school community.
Map skills are developed through the location of samples taken and key features in the...
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This well-planned resource uses the life cycle of the Monarch butterfly to introduce the learners to the concepts of environmental stewardship and community service. Students discover how planting milkweed to help the butterflies...
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