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  Bjorn Lomborg sets global priorities

  In this video, the audicence is asked, 'given $50 billion to spend, which would you solve first, AIDS or global warming?' Danish political scientist Bjorn Lomborg comes up with surprising answers and disscusses the many issues...

  Type:Video
  Topic:Health, Social Justice, Sustainable Development
  Subject:Science, Geography, Civics & Citizenship, Health & Wellbeing, Environmental Studies
  Level:Intermediate / Middle, Secondary
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  Bouncing Back

  The purpose of this activity is for students to understand the idea of resilience and to share personal experiences of resilience. Students may share personal stories or the discussion may centre around global disasters which are well...

  Type:Lesson Plan
  Topic:Air, Atmosphere and Climate, Natural Disasters, Solutions
  Subject:Science, Geography, Behavioral Studies, Environmental Studies, Global Studies
  Level:Intermediate / Middle, Secondary
  Grade: 7 8 9 10 11 12
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  Bring Back the Wild: Grade 1 Unit Plan

  This unit is designed to help teach your students about biodiversity in a cross curricular approach. Specifically, there are three lesson plans available that will help teach strands within the Science and Language curriculum. The...

  Type:Lesson Plan
  Topic:Ecosystems, Taking Action
  Subject:Science, English / Language Arts
  Level:Primary / Elementary
  Grade: 1 2 3
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  Build a Pizza Box Solar Oven

  This activity teaches students how to build their own solar oven out of a pizza box. This solar oven will get hot enough to warm up cookies and other treats!

  Type:Lesson Plan
  Topic:Energy Generation, Renewable Energy
  Subject:Science, Environmental Science
  Level:Primary / Elementary, Intermediate / Middle, Secondary
  Grade:JK K 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12
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  Building a Vermicomposter

  This project will have you and your action team becoming master builders of a novel, garbage-guzzling machine that eats, breathes, and wriggles – a vermicomposter! You will build a vermicomposter that uses red wiggler worms to...

  Type:Lesson Plan
  Topic:Recycling and Waste Management, Taking Action
  Subject:Science, Social Studies
  Level:Primary / Elementary, Intermediate / Middle
  Grade: 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12
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  Building Resilience to Climate Risks

  C3 is a climate change and sustainability agency in Alberta. “Building Resilience to Climate Risks” is a document of 44 slides from a September 2013 webinar with many graphs and infographics – almost all of which...

  Type:Research
  Topic:Air, Atmosphere and Climate, Ecosystems, Natural Disasters
  Subject:Science, Geography, Civics & Citizenship, Environmental Studies, Aboriginal Studies
  Level:Intermediate / Middle, Secondary
  Grade: 6 12
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  Building the Basic PVC Wind Turbine

  This plan shows how to make a rugged and inexpensive classroom wind turbine that can be used for lab bench-based blade design experiments.

  Type:Lesson Plan
  Topic:Energy Generation, Renewable Energy, Science and Technology
  Subject:Science, Technology and Skilled Trades, Environmental Science
  Level:Primary / Elementary, Intermediate / Middle, Secondary
  Grade:JK K 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12
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  Burning in the Streets

  This 7-minute piece looks at a group of students from Manhattan Comprehensive Night and Day High School who worked with Solar One’s Chris Neidl to make small-scale solar projects like lanterns and mobile charging units....

  Type:Video
  Topic:Recycling and Waste Management, Science and Technology, Taking Action
  Subject:Science, Environmental Science
  Level:Secondary
  Grade: 9 10 11 12
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  Butterfly Life Cycles

  Students identify life cycle stages of butterflies. Older students learn threats facing the endangered Karner blue butterfly at each stage in its life cycle.  

  Type:Lesson Plan
  Topic:Biodiversity
  Subject:Science, Visual Arts, History and Social Science, Biology
  Level:Primary / Elementary
  Grade:JK K 1 2 3 4 5 6
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  Can farming affect biodiversity?

  Students play a detective mission game in which they visit a farm and surrounding area and observe differences in ecosystems and in plant and animal species to learn how farming practices can affect the environment and biodiversity....

  Type:Lesson Plan
  Topic:Biodiversity, Ecosystems, Food and Agriculture
  Subject:Science, Social Studies, Environmental Studies
  Level:Intermediate / Middle
  Grade: 4 5 6 7 8 9
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