Education Database
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No Idling at Schools
This project will help you and your Action Team increase your understanding of issues relating to climate change. You will develop an anti-idling campaign at your school, creating posters and information handouts about the negative...
Type:Lesson Plan
Topic:Air, Atmosphere and Climate, Taking Action
Subject:Mathematics, Science, English / Language Arts, Arts
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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No Impact Plan: Transportation
Study how improved street design could encourage more students to use active forms of transportation like walking or biking to get to school. Educators can use this lesson to help students explore how improved street design could...
Type:Lesson Plan
Topic:Energy Use and Conservation, Solutions
Subject:English / Language Arts, Geography, Civics & Citizenship, Environmental Studies
Level:Intermediate / Middle, Secondary
Grade: 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12
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No Impact Project: Consumption
Examine how advertising affects our consumption habits and consider how we can get what we need in ways that do less harm to the environment. Create an alternative gift registry with items that are non-material, secondhand, homemade,...
Type:Lesson Plan
Topic:Recycling and Waste Management, Taking Action
Subject:English / Language Arts, Geography, Environmental Studies
Level:Intermediate / Middle, Secondary
Grade: 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12
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No Impact Project: Energy
Take a look at our current system for supplying energy to our homes. Find out how to reduce our daily energy consumption and speak out on the need to have long-term, sustainable energy solutions.
Type:Lesson Plan
Topic:Energy Generation, Energy Use and Conservation, Renewable Energy
Subject:English / Language Arts, Geography, Civics & Citizenship, Environmental Studies
Level:Intermediate / Middle, Secondary
Grade: 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12
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No Impact Project: Food
Explore how food choices affect the environment and our quality of life. Develop a plan for one meal that includes only food that is seasonal, local, and unpackaged. The lesson also incorporates web site resources that build on themes...
Type:Lesson Plan
Topic:Food and Agriculture
Subject:English / Language Arts, Geography, Economics, Health & Wellbeing
Level:Intermediate / Middle, Secondary
Grade: 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12
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No Impact Project: Water
Learn ways to conserve water and minimize the amount of chemicals that we put in our drains. The lesson also incorporates web site resources that build on themes that emerge from the family’s experiences.
Type:Lesson Plan
Topic:Solutions, Water Issues
Subject:Science, English / Language Arts, Geography, Civics & Citizenship, Environmental Studies
Level:Intermediate / Middle, Secondary
Grade: 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12
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Once Upon a Bike (EnerAction)
Students consider what they like about biking and play a true-or-false game to discover how the use of bikes differs over time and place. Students interview someone who can tell them about cycling in another time or place to help them...
Type:Lesson Plan
Topic:Energy Use and Conservation, Transportation
Subject:Science, English / Language Arts, Social Studies
Level:Intermediate / Middle
Grade: 4 5 6 7 8 9
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Our Changing Climate for grades 3-6
These five lesson plans are interdisciplinary in nature, standards-based, help students master the requisite background information on global climate change processes and how to communicate about the issue using communication...
Type:Lesson Plan
Topic:Air, Atmosphere and Climate, Solutions
Subject:English / Language Arts, Environmental Studies, Environmental Science
Level:Primary / Elementary, Intermediate / Middle
Grade: 3 4 5 6
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Our Changing Climate for grades 6-12
These six interdisciplinary lesson plans help students master the requisite background information on global climate change processes, the importance of the Arctic to global climate, the potential effects of global warming in the...
Type:Lesson Plan
Topic:Air, Atmosphere and Climate, Ecosystems, Solutions
Subject:English / Language Arts, Geography, Environmental Studies, Earth Science, Environmental Science
Level:Intermediate / Middle, Secondary
Grade: 6 7 8 9 10 11 12
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Our Solar Future
Our Solar Future ( http://ecospark.ca/solar ) is a hands-on science unit on solar PV for Grade 6, Ontario curriculum. The lessons are structured so that teachers can easily integrate language arts, mathematics, and visual...
Type:Lesson Plan
Topic:Energy Generation, Energy Use and Conservation, Renewable Energy
Subject:Mathematics, Science, English / Language Arts, Visual Arts
Level:Primary / Elementary, Intermediate / Middle
Grade:JK K 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9
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