• Get to Know: Birds

  This is a wonderful resource for introducing young students to local birds.  It offers teachers two easy-to-implement outdoor activities that teach observation and record keeping skills while promoting a connection to the natural world. In 'Birds...

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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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• Big Burn

  Rocky Harbour is a pristine community located along Canada's East Coast that is being ruined by the toxic waste that belches from a huge landfill incinerator.  Chris and Marina are two local teens determined to stop the damage at all costs, especially...

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• A Tree is Nice

  Inspired by the book "A Tree is Nice" by Janice May Udry, this resource engages students in learning about the special characteristics of trees that makes them so important to both humans and the environment.  With an emphasis on taking students...

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• Viola Desmond Won't Be Budged

  This beautifully illustrated book introduces students to Viola Desmond, an African Canadian businesswoman who challenged racial segregation in Nova Scotia.  Viola was arrested when she refused to move out of the whites-only section of the Roseland...

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• Just Turn it Off!

  This fun music video starring Rae Rae the Red Panda will involve students in thinking about how they can help conserve precious water resources.  The straightforward content combined with a catchy, upbeat tune is very effective in conveying an important...

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• Going Green with D-rop: Water Conservation

  One of a series of short videos featuring D-rop an environmentally conscious water drop character, this episode focuses on water conservation.  D-rop leads students through some easy water saving tips that all centre around personal hygiene activities...

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• Going Green with D-rop: Reduce, Reuse, Recycle

  D-rop, the imaginary water droplet is very concerned about greenhouse gas emissions and the need to save precious natural resources.  In this short video she encourages students to reduce, reuse and recycle and offers lots of easy tips that not only...

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• Going Green with D-rop: Energy

  D-rop, an imaginary water droplet who cares about the environment, provides an engaging lesson about energy types and the importance of conservation.  In an era in which we often take electricity for granted this video shows students the benefits...

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• The Journey of Sustainabilty

  Beginning with the question –Can business profit through sustainability?- the video traces the journey from the Industrial Revolution to the present to find the answer. Highlights of the journey include references to the pressures on business exerted...

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• A Reassuring Fable

  The video suggests that our inclination to embrace reassuring myths about our place and role in the biosphere has been destructive of both ourselves and the planet. It further argues that we must accept hard truths rather than reassuring faith; that knowledge...

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• Fresh Water Scarcity

  Introduces a number of issues related to water availability and consumption – relative abundance and scarcity of fresh water; personal use versus global use; the common good versus profit.  The video is accompanied by a number of additional...

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• Protect Our Oceans

  Legendary ocean researcher Sylvia Earle shares astonishing images of the ocean - and shocking statistics about its rapid decline. Earle believes that with knowing comes caring ...but first we have to know about "the blue heart of the planet" and the threats...

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• Inuit Observations on Climate Change

  This video documents the impact of climate change from an Inuit perspective. The residents of Sachs Harbour on Banks Island in Canada's High Arctic, have witnessed dramatic changes in their landscape and their way of life. Exotic insects, fish and...

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• Welcome to the Anthropocene

  Viewers are taken on a 3-minute journey through the last 250 years of our history, from the start of the Industrial Revolution to the Rio+20 Summit. The video charts the growth of humanity as a global force equivalent in their impact on major geological...

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• Introduction to Water

  This dramatic video, choreographed to powerful music, introduces the student to the wonder and miracle of water. It is designed as a "motivational trailer" and as a visual "introduction" to this amazing substance.

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• 7 Billion: Are You Typical?

  The video is part of National Geographic's series on world population occasioned by the arrival of the world's 7 billionth person on October 31, 2011. The series (available as a free app) explores the challenges - and potential solutions - for coping...

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• 7 Billion and Counting

  Global population trends result from varying levels of population growth and decline among countries. This video provides a simple and compelling overview of population trends that created a world of 7 billion people in 2011 and predict growth to 8 billion...

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• Sustainable Logging

  The video serves as an introduction to the concept of sustainable forestry, which it defines as striking a balance between the needs of the people and the health of our forests. It serves also to introduce the concept of third party certification as it...

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• Cloudwatchers

  Cloudwatchers is an easy to use resource that exposes young students to the different cloud formations and their meanings. The resource employs inquiry-based learning with questioning, exploration and self-discovery. Through a variety of activities, students...

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