Salmonids in the Classroom is a comprehensive, year-long program in which students learn about the life-cycle of salmon, how they interact with their environment and the relationship (both positive and negative) between salmon and humans. Students...
Students undertake an exploration of seven topics related to cultivating peace through a variety of learning activities. This resource is designed to help students develop a better understanding of the forces that can bring about tragedies such...
Penguins on Thin Ice is an eclectic web site put together by the non-profit organization, Irthlingz Arts Based Environmental Education and offers a musical review about climate change. This musical revue consists of a compilation of songs and scripts...
Growing Poems encourages students to reflect on their gardening experiences through reading and writing different styles of poetry. The project offers excellent background information, several supplementary resources and an interactive,...
This exciting resource focuses on salmon biology and stewardship. It adopts an ecological approach and teaches students how to "take care in their own lives so that salmon thrive!" Throughout the resource students will document...
The activities in Five Minute Field Trips are grouped into three sections: Awareness, Understanding and Action. The Awareness section consists of outdoor activities that are sensory and experiential giving kids a chance to reconnect with the...
In Treat It Right!® Storm Water students learn how storm water is managed and treated in the City of Edmonton. The concepts are explored through a series of lessons which inform the students how storm water must be managed to prevent flooding and...
Students will understand and replicate a First Nation's medicine wheel and link its imagery to water quality issues. Students will explore notions of basic human needs and link them to statistical measures of income. Students will explore...
Reusable Bags is a series of interesting activities through which students become acquainted with the concept of reusing. The resource emphasizes reducing and reusing over recycling. Students take action to decrease the number of plastic bags in...
Students are introduced to the environmental, social and economic implications of our current global food system. They examine and compare the various sources of our food from a systems perspective to appreciate the environmental, health and economic...
This resource contains eight lessons that explore health issues related to water. Students are encouraged to become involved on behalf of safe drinking water at home and abroad. Lessons involve reading and interpreting well-organized fact sheets,...
This is a good introductory resource to help students define global issues and understand their interconnections.Students develop criteria for determining what makes an issue global in scope, brainstorm and list global issues, group (i.e. rain forest...
In Sum of the Parts students define point and non-point pollution and consider how their choices contribute to pollution and shaping the world they live in. Students are given a riverfront piece of land and one million dollars to develop it with. They...
This lesson introduces students to the concept of sustainable development and provides them with an opportunity to explore its principles. The three components of sustainability: economy, environment, and society are explained to...
Using a digital camera to document local landscapes as they are today, students explore how changes in human land use are creating social impacts and impacting local environments. Five student photographers from the class are asked to take photos between...
This three-lesson math package promotes the development of math skills within the context of teaching about global issues and sustainability. Using real data students participate in activities that touch on credit card debt and national budgeting, investigate...
This resource is designed to be used by educators as a tool to teach about environmental integrity, social justice, democracy, nonviolence and peace through a variety of age-appropriate activities. It provides detailed outlines for four main...
This resource engages students in a study of wildlife migration by tracking the fall flight of monarch butterflies to Mexico. Using an on-line tool, Canadian students track monarch butterfly sightings in early fall, along with students from the United...
This resource uses a video lesson, a fast-paced interactive game, and a group activity to highlight the ongoing problems that plastics and other forms of garbage create for marine environments and the animals that live there. After watching a powerful...
This kit was created to thread sustainability-related knowledge, skills and attitudes throughout the Ontario grade nine geography course. While the kit consists of separate modules designed to match the conventional units of study in the Ontario...