Resources

• Core Concepts

  This comprehensive resource provides strong curriculum connections to the earth sciences. In addition to the topics of rocks, minerals and soils, Core Concepts effectively addresses the need for mineral resource extraction (mining) as well as its impacts....

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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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• Nesting, Nests and Building a Home for Birds

  The nesting habits of birds are examined in this inquiry-based lesson that cultivates curiosity and promotes respect for the natural world.   As students explore the unique features of bird nests they actively participate in the learning process...

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• Five Minute Fieldtrips

  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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• Marine Plastic Pollution Sea of Plastic

  Students explore the issue of marine plastic pollution including sources, distribution and impact on the environment. Special attention is paid to how macro and micro plastics affect wildlife and what actions students can take as individuals to help...

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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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• Empowering Women and Girls

  n this lesson, students will explore the relationship between empowering women and girls and addressing climate change. First, students will view a video on the topic to build understanding and generate areas for further investigation.   Then students...

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• Our Environmental Footprint

  Through a variety of activities, students learn about different sources of energy and the amount of energy that they consume every day.  This lesson plan contains six short activities: What is Energy? Students learn where electricity comes from...

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• The Global Goals Debate

  Participation in this lesson will build an understanding of the Global Goals for Sustainable Development.  Through debate preparation and participation students will have the opportunity to evaluate the goals and come to a decision as to their relevance...

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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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• Mapping the Impact

  In this ESD classroom resource students work in small groups to create novel web diagrams that illustrate the array of environmental, social and economic impacts related to the consumption of everyday items such as cell phones, t-shirts or athletic shoes....

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• Tikho's Story: A Quest for Clean Water in Zambia

  Tikho’s Story is an authentic tale about water and sanitation issues from a youth perspective. Tikho is a young girl from Zambia, whose community is working to improve its access to safe drinking water. The slideshow includes short videos made...

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• The Impact of Pollution on Our Planet and Our Lives

  Environmental pollution is a significant problem facing the planet. Environmental pollutants can originate from several sources. Knowing what the different types of pollution are and where they come from can help students understand the potential impact...

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• Global Water and Sanitation Curriculum

  Global Water and Sanitation Awareness Curriculum consists of a number of activities (water usage survey,creative writing, art projects, simulations,action plans) designed to raise student awareness of the unequal availability and use of water, the...

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• Food Miles: Growing Local Food Connections (Elementary)

  Food Miles is comprised of a number of activities that teach students about the food they eat and where it comes from. The resource aims to inspire students to reduce their food miles and emphasize the importance of a healthy diet. Students will explore...

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• BioCellection Technology for Recycling Plastic

  Reduce, Reuse, Recycle! What about Refuse, Replace, Reimagine? In this activity, students will be focusing mainly on the “Reimagine” of the new 3Rs. The resource introduces students to BioCellection’s innovative technology that aims...

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• Trading Textiles

  Trading textiles is a lesson plan built for students to reflect on the impact of the textile industry and the affects on our environment and options they could implement in order to diverting textile waste from landfills. In small groups students will...

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• Fly Away Home!

  Bird migration is explored in this lesson that has students creating paper airplane "birds" that must navigate their way through a fragmented landscape as they fly to their breeding grounds. A dynamic approach supports action as learners recognize how...

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• The Biodiversity of Ontario’s Natural and Manmade Islands

  This lesson consists of three parts that could be used individually or collectively as one large lesson. In the first part, students participate in a game that explores the concept of island biogeography. The activity simulates the colonization of four...

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• The Monarch Butterfly

  This multi-lesson unit has students explore concepts including butterfly’s life cycle, pollination, plant growth, and migration. They will recognize that people have complex relationships with Monarchs and the plants which sustain them. Students...

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