• Clean Air, Healthy Children

  These education materials and lesson plans are designed to introduce young children to the concepts of respiratory health, air quality and caring for the environment.  The unit begins by providing a comprehensive background to support teaching/learning...

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• Healthy Youth, Healthy Community ( Grades 9-12)

  This ESD classroom resource introduces students to healthy living habits for themselves as well as their community. They demonstrate their knowledge by participating in various activities that encourage healthy food choices, exercising and helping others...

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• Sustainable Economics, Consumer Responsibility

  This resource focuses on the concept of responsible purchasing and sustainable consumption. By analyzing the production, consumption and disposal of everyday items, students make connections between product choices and social, economic and environmental...

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• Growing Up Wild

  Growing Up WILD is an early childhood education program that promotes a sense of wonder in children about nature and invites them to explore wildlife and the world around them.  Through a wide range of outdoor activities and nature-themed experiences,...

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• LSF's Food for Thought Action Toolkit for Secondary Students

  This ESD resource has students analyze the global food system from a ‘systems’ perspective to develop a better understanding of the important issues related to where their food comes from. Part. A. Students watch a video that explores...

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• Population, Consumption and The Global Economy

  This inter-disciplinary resource is one of four teacher's guides based on David Suzuki's film, "Force of Nature".  It's focus is on the challenges resulting from the rapid growth of the human population and the corresponding increase in consumption...

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• The Lunch Thief

  This book poignantly deals with the issues of poverty, hunger and malnutrition.  The main character does not have access to nutritious lunches and so makes the choice to steal lunches from those around him.  One particular victim discovers what...

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• This Child, Every Child

  This book examines the rights that children are guaranteed under the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child.  The author allows readers to experience the lives of children in poor countries and draws awareness to the striking disparity...

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• Mama Panya's Pancakes: A Village Tale From Kenya

  The author creates a Kenyan version of the popular children’s book Stone Soup.  In this story a woman is headed to the market with her son to spend her meager wages on ingredients to make pancakes for supper.  Along the way amid her son’s...

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• Talking About What You Eat

  When experiencing hunger, people often do not consider the impact that the food they choose can have on their bodies.  This book provides the framework for examining a healthy diet by beginning to explore whether the food they choose is providing...

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• The Secret River

  A young girl’s father’s business of selling fish is failing and she seeks out the advice of the wisest person in the forest to help her find fish to support her family and her village.  The young girl heads out into the forest and discovers...

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• The Goodbye Cancer Garden

  A young girl is told that her mother has cancer.  As she asks questions about her mother’s recovery, she is told that hopefully her mother will be better by pumpkin time.  This inspires the young girl to plant her own garden, and the book...

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• The Lorax

  The now remorseful Once-ler, our faceless, bodiless narrator, tells the story himself. Long ago this enterprising villain chances upon a place filled with wondrous Truffula Trees, Swomee-Swans, Brown Bar-ba- loots, and Humming-Fishes. Bewitched by the...

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• The Great Kapok Tree

  According to Publisher's Weekly, this book combines illustrations that reveal a naturalist's reverence for beauty with a myth-like story that explains the ecological importance of saving the rain forests. The text is not a didactic treatise, but a simply...

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• If The World Were A Village

  First published to wide acclaim in 2002, this eye-opening book has since become a classic, promoting "world-mindedness" by imagining the world's population, all 7+ billion of us, as a village of just 100 people. Now the book has been newly revised with...

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• Weslandia

  What do the children you know usually do when school is out for the summer? Go crazy with boredom? Head poolside with friends? Plan a self-sufficient civilization with its own staple food crop? That is precisely how Wesley decides to spend his summer...

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• What Does Peace Feel Like?

  This uniquely illustrated book offers an answer to the question, “What Does Peace Look Like?”  The answers are provided by students from an international school in Rome and convey images of peace through the eyes of a child.  The...

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• Where Once There Was a Wood

  This uniquely illustrated picture book explores the abundance of creatures that once inhabited a natural area before its conversion to a housing development.  The text is suited for young readers  but the concepts are appropriate for more advanced...

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• Whoever You Are

  This book effectively delivers a powerful message that despite all of the differences that people may have, we are all the same deep down.  The author explains that there are children all over the world who may look different, live in different...

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• Something Beautiful

  This book begins with a young girl reflecting on the “ugliness” she sees when looking around her inner city neighborhood.  In her attempt to find something positive within this urban landscape, she polls those around her on the things...

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