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• Designing for Climate Action

  In this design thinking resource, students will follow very precise steps and plans in order to reuse an object in a different way for the well being of the people in their community. Through ten different activities the students will work on a project...

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• Listen Up!

  This resource focuses on developing empathetic listening skills in students, so that they are able to effectively communicate with adults when discussing their thoughts and feelings about climate change. The resource is designed in three separate parts: Part...

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• Think Big! Collective Action for Climate Change

  In this lesson plan, the students learn the difference between individual action and collective action through a variety of activities that range from videos to small group work. In the first activity the students watch a 5 minute video that takes them...

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• Community Conversations for Climate Change

  In this two-part lesson plan, the students will work towards an understanding of climate change and then engage in a conversation with guests to the classroom to understand the changes to their area. In part one of the lesson, the students participate...

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• An Energy Project for the Global Goals

  This resource has students compare and contrast their use of electricity, gas usage and paper waste with another school. The two main aspects of the activity are data collection and brainstorming ways to reduce consumption. Each school will monitor their...

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• Earth: It's Everybody's Home

  In this climate education activity, students use Google Earth tools to explore our natural world and learn more about youth climate activists and the work they are doing to stand up for our planet.  Students will: explore what it means to be an...

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• What World Do You Want in 2030?

  This resource has students envision a world where the Global Goals have been achieved. The resource begins with an activity designed to provide an entry point to the Goals, either one Goal or a theme from the Goals. Students view an animation to learn...

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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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• Make Space for Nature

  Make Space for Nature is one of many lessons from The World's Largest Lesson. This resource includes a four part introductory lesson plan that looks at how the planet's biodiversity impacts the achievement of the Global Goals. In this lesson, students...

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• Redesigning Plastic Packaging

  The lesson focuses on the widespread practice of plastic packaging and the problems it creates. It is one of a series of lessons within the World’s Largest Lesson that explores the circular economy. Students evaluate the effectiveness of the...

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• Understanding the Challenges of Finite Resources

  This lesson is part of a series of lessons which introduce students to a different way of thinking about how our economy could work: a circular economy. The series builds up exactly how a circular economy is different from the status quo, and looks at...

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• Understanding Sustainable Development

  The lesson plan consists of a series of activities designed to introduce students to the concept of sustainable development and "ecological accounting."  Students measure their own ecological footprint and compare it to others as a means of calculating...

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• Clean Water for All

  The resource activities aim to increase students understanding of the various causes of water pollution and to raise awareness of the global inequality of access to safe water around the world. Students will: observe the differences between the two containers...

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• A Healthy Start

  Poverty and the associated impact on children’s health is a complex global issue that affects both developed and developing countries.  Canadian citizens have access to universal health care yet childhood obesity rates are climbing and sports...

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• Life Below Water

  This resource examines the problem of plastics in the world’s oceans and directs students to consider individual changes they can make to help reduce the damage being caused. The lesson begins by drawing attention to the UN’s Sustainability...

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• Everybody Wins When Girls Can Stay in School

  All children have the basic human right to learn and yet millions of girls are being denied an education due to barriers such as poverty.  This lesson engages students in active discussions about the social and economic benefits of educating both...

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• The World Is Not Equal. Is That Fair?

  The purpose of this resource is to enhance student’s awareness of the many types of inequality that exist in the world. The activities introduce the students to the idea of social disparities and explore the consequences of these inequalities on...

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• Food Waste: Investigations in Numeracy

  According to the UN World Food Program, over 270 million people worldwide are suffering from extreme hunger and yet approximately one-third of the food that is produced on an annual basis is wasted. This lesson introduces students to the environmental,...

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• Explorers for the Global Goals

  Explorers for the Global Goals allows younger students the opportunity to explore simple concepts around global issues and develop skills for life. The activities in the resource introduce students to the Global Goals through guided discussions and shared...

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• A Call to Climate Learning for Climate Education

  In this video, a boy named Krrish talks to the audience about the importance of climate action. He visits his friends via technology who are youth activists around the globe and they share their stories of working towards reversing the effects of climate...

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