Resources

• Teaching About Syria

  This unique resource offers teachers and students a comprehensive set of tools and suggestions on how to use them to examine the war in Syria.  The author provides links to powerful videos, slide presentations, news reports, journal articles and...

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• Local Connections to Global Issues- Health

  This wonderful ESD resource addresses the links that exist between climate change and the spread of infectious disease.  Focus is placed on understanding the issue and looking for solutions.  While the resource examines conditions experienced...

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• Biosphere Biokit Activities

  This teaching resource will allow teachers and students to explore Canada’s biodiversity in a fun and interactive way at any time of the year. The resource offers a series of engaging outdoor activities that help students learn about biodiversity...

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• Thirst: Lesson Plan

  More than 100 First Nations communities across Canada do not have clean, safe drinking water. Thirst is a glimpse into Keewaywin, an Oji-Cree community north of Red Lake, Ontario, where the water is contaminated with uranium and residents are forced...

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• Plastics in Our Oceans

  In this activity, students will learn about the impacts of plastic in oceans, microplastic production, and how it ends up in our environments. They will explore the harmful effects of macro and microplastics in our water bodies, particularly our oceans. This...

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• Raising Her Voice

  This inventive resource brings music into the classroom and encourages learners to use creativity in exploring the connections between gender inequality, poverty and sustainable communities.  The power of music as a vehicle for social change is a...

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• Ecosystem Imbalance in the World

  Students build on their knowledge of individual impacts on the ocean to see how the whole system can react to threats and changes. They examine ways in which human actions throw marine ecosystems out of balance, explore the concept of how impacts can...

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• What Are The Pros and Cons of Nuclear Energy

  In this STEM exercise, students consider the pros and cons of using nuclear power.  Tools provided to support their inquiry include a detailed article with embedded videos, current data, case studies and links to additional information that support...

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• Healthy Soil - Healthy Plants!

  This simple lesson plan uses experiential activities to help develop student understanding of soil composition and plant growth.  With an emphasis on conservation, the soil activities provide many opportunities for classroom  discussion of ...

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• Citizen Climate Curriculum

  This resource examines the scientific basis for urgent action on climate change as well as the social, economic and political implications of the policy formed in response. Students view selected videos, read and discuss scientific reports, articles...

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• Climate Change Solutions - Low Impact Development

  Students watch a video to learn how climate change affects cities and urban areas and how low impact development features can help reduce the stress on urban infrastructure. Students use what is learned to design a plan for a business that wants...

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• Experience Energy

  This resource is comprised of six lessons with the goal of helping students to gain a deeper understanding of energy, the connection between energy and the environment, how energy is used, methods of conservation and renewable energy solutions. Lesson...

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• We Fight Climate Change

  In this guided inquiry, students research the causes and consequences of climate change, brainstorm practical solutions to the problem and create a magazine to present their findings as a series of articles and photos. Teachers use classroom sessions...

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• Connections: The Basics of Biodiversity- Module 2

  "Connections: The Basics of Biodiversity Module 2" is part of a larger resource entitled Backyard Biodiversity and Beyond. Module 2 is an interesting and engaging action project resource which contains messages and activities about the nature and value...

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• Nature's Partners - Pollination, Plants and You

  This comprehensive set of seven learning modules introduces students to the fascinating relationship between plants and pollinating insects.  Throughout the detailed biological investigation of bees, moths and butterflies there is an emphasis on...

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• Clara Clare: Discrimination and Racism

  The purpose of this lesson is for students to learn the meaning of discrimination and (systemic) racism using a historical example in Canada involving Indigenous children and residential schools. The lesson focuses on the story of a girl named Clara,...

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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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• Reduce, Reuse, Recycle

  Building on Needs vs Wants,  this multi-step lesson contributes to the theme of responsible consumption by focusing attention on how we all can and should work to protect the earth’s natural resources. Through a number of engaging activities...

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• The Back to School Plastic Challenge

  This activity based resource developed by the UN Clean Seas campaign contains a series of projects that involve students in identifying and quantifying plastic waste at school and home.  The problem-based learning experience develops environmental...

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• Disappearing Act

  In taking hundreds of years to decompose, plastics present a major challenge in the effective management and disposal of solid waste. In response, researchers have been developing new materials that decompose more quickly for use in the manufacture of...

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