• Planning for climate resilience

  Planning for climate resilience features members of the Canadian Institute of Planners explaining how the planning profession is at the forefront of developing policy, capacity, and climate resilience within communities and environments across the country.  This...

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• When Climate Change Hits Home

  Lennox Island, home to Prince Edward Island’s Mi’kmaq First Nation for more than 10,000 years now finds itself on the front lines of Canada’s battle against climate change and in danger of disappearing altogether.  Through the camera...

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• Global Schools Program Grade 3

  The Global Schools Program for Grade 3 aims to teach students about the origin of food, the systems that distribute it and how it impacts the lives of people around the world.  The resource is comprised of five lessons. Lesson 1 Origins of Food:...

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• How Do We Meet The Growing Need For Water?

  How Do We Meet The Growing Need For Water? explores key water issues, the water cycle, and some of the technology and techniques used to conserve water.  The video describes ways we consume water on earth, like agriculture, manufactures, and ecosystems....

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• Adapting to Sea Level Rise

  Adapting to Sea Level Rise brings us to Indian Island First Nation that is on a peninsula surrounded by water. Through a combination of traditional knowledge and scientific studies, it became clear to Chief Ken Barlow that this community would be underwater...

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• The Adventures of a Plastic Bottle

  This adventure invites young readers on a journey with a plastic bottle from the manufacturing plant to flying through space as an astronaut's space suit!  Colourful illustrations and simple text introduce students to the science that transforms...

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• Understanding Sustainable Living

  Understanding Sustainable Living is part of the World's Largest Lesson, which brings the Global Goals to children all over the world and unites them in taking action. In this sixty minute lesson, students will: listen to the song "Electric Car" by They...

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• Global Schools Program Grade 4

  The goal of the Global Schools Program Teaching Grade 4 lesson plans is to allow students to explore the topic of identity and to connect their personal values to those of their community by contributing to the health of the environment.  This unit...

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• Mission: Gender Equality

  Mission: Gender Equality is part of the World's Largest Lesson which brings the Global Goals to children all over the world and unites them in taking action. In this 60 minute lesson, students will: have a discussion on how it feels to feel excluded...

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• The Clean Air Game

  Playing the Clean Air Game is a great way to initiate discussion of the importance of protecting the atmosphere and help students understand distinctions between air pollutants and greenhouse gases. The objectives of the game are to acquaint students...

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• Bugging Out

  In this activity students use invertebrates they find in a nearby green space to practice making scientific observations and to design and conduct an experiment. Day One:  Making Observations. Through discussion and instruction students discover...

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• Carbon Cycles!

  In this active game, students follow the path of carbon through the carbon cycle to learn where carbon is stored and how it circulates. In the first round of the game, students move from one component of the Earth to the next, discovering there are short...

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• Plastic Ahoy!

  This non-fiction book takes students aboard the research vessel, New Horizon, to explore the huge ocean gyre known as the Great Pacific Garbage Patch. As learners delve into scientific investigations examining the impacts of marine litter, they will...

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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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• There's Plastic in That?

  This short video from Canadian Geographic explores the idea that plastics aren't always obvious in our daily lives.  By knowing where plastics are hidden in everyday objects we can make wise decisions about reusing items or making different choices. ...

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• Kids Take Action Against Ocean Plastic

  Young Hawaiians take viewers on a visual tour of their stunning beaches that are now tarnished by plastic garbage from around the world. However, these students are also helping redefine the future of their State through stewardship activities like supporting...

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• Climate Change Scavenger Hunt

  Following an in-class discussion of climate change basics, students participate in a scavenger hunt designed to help them learn more about their local environment.  While the focus of this outdoor activity is on teamwork and developing leadership...

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• All the Way to the Ocean

  Friends, Issac and James, embark on a discovery adventure as they learn how the careless act of tossing a plastic bottle into a storm drain contributes to the huge marine litter problems that are impacting our oceans. The journey becomes personal when...

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• Dinner for Two

  In the core activity of this resource students participate in a game that simulates the impact that invasive species can have on an ecosystem.  Classmates take on the roles of the key components making up the food web found in Okanagan Lake, BC.  ...

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• White-nose Wipeout

  White-nose Wipeout is an interactive game that teaches the important role bats play in our ecosystem while also sharing information about the rapid spread of White-nose syndrome and its devastating effects on bat populations. To play the game, each student...

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