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Design for Change: One Idea! One Week!
Design for Change outlines a process by which students identify a problem and collectively design and execute a plan to remedy the problem. The process,as outlined, involves four steps - feel, imagine, do and share. The four steps are realized through...
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Understanding Dynamic Systems
This self-paced interactive lesson guides students through the process of identifying and analyzing a system. Students cover systems thinking basics and then examine the dynamics of soil health through videos and online exercises that make the system...
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Making Connections
Making Connections is a compilation of activities that focuses on introducing students to some of the knowledge and skills required for environmentally-responsible citizenship. While each curriculum based activity can stand alone, the resource is designed...
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Under One Sky
This resource effectively illustrates the ways in which animals are important to the health and future of the planet. Four lessons demonstrate how human activities, including those related to climate change can result in habitat fragmentation and threaten...
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Climate Challenge for 11 to 14 year olds
Students explore the human impact of climate change, how communities around the world are being affected and how some people are responding to these challenges. Throughout this inquiry there are opportunities for students to share what they have learned...
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Malala A Brave Girl From Pakistan
When a young girl triumphed over a brutal attack by the Taliban, her courage resonated around the globe. This book brings the stories of Malala Yousafzai and Iqbal Masih to young readers through simple text and illustrations that eloquently portray...
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Trapper Boy
Set in a 1920s coal-mining town, Trapper Boy is the story of thirteen year-old JW Donaldson, a good student with big plans for college and adventure. As the school–year ended in 1926, JW was looking forward to a typical summer of fun with his...
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The Curious Garden
In this whimsical tale a young boy transforms a dreary city from a lifeless concrete landscape to a bountiful green space by nurturing nature. Liam's passion for gardening soon galvanizes other residents into helping him realize his dream of a city...
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I am Malala
In this fascinating memoir, Malala Yousafzait describes her journey from a young girl who wanted an education to an internationally recognized Nobel Peace Prize winner. The simple, happy times at her parent's school in the Swat Valley of Pakistan...
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Keep Wild Animals Wild (K-2)
This set of eight lessons provides an opportunity for students to explore wild animals and the types of adaptations that make wildlife successful in their own environment. The differences between domesticated and non-domesticated animals are evaluated,...
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Shaping up Summer
In this fourth book of the "Math in Nature" collection, geometric concepts are explored through captivating pictures and poetic text that typify this series for young readers. The interactive experience asks students to answer math questions...
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Never Cry Wolf
This biographical novel by one of Canada's most acclaimed authors describes how a scientific assignment to study wolves in the Northwest Territories transformed a nieve, young biologist into a fierce and passionate advocate for wildlife. When Farley...
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Needs vs Wants
In developed nations like Canada we live in a world of abundance where the desire for the latest products often outweighs the social and environmental costs of our purchases. This lesson develops the financial decision-making skills of young students...
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Pumpkins Against Poverty
This unique STEM learning unit teaches students that ingenuity and resourcefulness can transform communities living in poverty. The pumpkins familiar to all of us as fall decorations become the catalyst for change in an area of Bangladesh where...
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Dangerous Decibels
In comparison to other environmental issues noise pollution often receives little attention. Yet, our world is becoming increasingly noisy and there is an important concern about the human and environmental damage from all of this loud sound. ...
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Could We Rid The World of Mosquitoes?
Using the current concern over the spread of the Zika virus as a starting point, this informative video provides a balanced discussion of the promise and pitfalls of biotechnology in controlling insect-borne diseases. In addition to Zika, the program...
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Unlimited: Renewable Energy in the 21st Century
Unlimited: Renewable Energy in the 21st Century is a documentary film aimed at providing a general introduction about the virtues and benefits of moving away from fossil fuels and towards renewable energy. The strength of the video is the peer teaching...
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Natural Figures
The natural world contains an infinite variety of shapes and patterns of which students are often unaware. In this outdoor activity, students look for geometric shapes in nature to help them discover the diversity of the natural environment. Students...
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Leaf Magic
In this fall activity, children adopt a tree and observe it throughout September and October. The goal is to deepen students' awareness of individual trees and encourage a greater understanding and appreciation of their local environment. Students...
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The Least Deadliest Catch
Fish stocks around the world are being depleted at an alarming rate, and yet growing populations are more dependent on these vital food sources than ever. The Water Brothers venture to the East Coast of the US and Canada to witness first-hand how overfishing...
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