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  Climate Change, Extreme Weather and Cities

  Calgary Floods Spotlight Cities’ Costly Failure to Plan for Climate Change , “Many Canadian cities and towns are ill-prepared for the rising frequency of catastrophic weather events like the southern Alberta floods,...

  Type:Research
  Topic:Air, Atmosphere and Climate, Natural Disasters, Solutions
  Subject:English / Language Arts, Geography, Social Studies, Environmental Studies, Environmental Science
  Level:Secondary
  Grade: 9 10 11 12
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  Coal Videos

  A collection of videos that describe the extraction process, use and technology associated with coal. Several videos concentrate on clean coal technology and gasification.

  Type:Video
  Topic:Energy Generation, Energy Use and Conservation, Natural Disasters
  Subject:Science, Geography
  Level:Intermediate / Middle
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  Critical Hope, an Approach to Teaching Climate Change

  As teachers, teaching about climate change, how do we reach students who are feeling scared and overwhelmed by our changing climate and who may believe that there is little they can do to make a difference? Teaching Hope for...

  Type:Lesson Plan
  Topic:Air, Atmosphere and Climate, Natural Disasters, Solutions
  Subject:Life Skills, Interdisciplinary Studies, Social Studies, Environmental Studies, Environmental Science
  Level:Intermediate / Middle, Secondary
  Grade: 7 8 9 10 11 12
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  Earth to Humanity

  Blue Man Group has created a video piece that focuses on taking aim at one of our planet's most serious problems, climate change. This creative video would be a great hook for climate change education and offers a creative way of...

  Type:Video
  Topic:Environment, Natural Disasters
  Subject:Geography, Social Studies, Environmental Studies
  Level:Intermediate / Middle, Secondary
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  Extreme Weather Factsheet

  Extreme weather has always been with us but climate change is expected to increase the frequency and severity of extreme weather—thus, we can no longer use the past as a guide to the future. All administrations in Canada, be...

  Type:Research
  Topic:Air, Atmosphere and Climate, Natural Disasters, Taking Action
  Subject:English / Language Arts, Civics & Citizenship, Social Studies, Environmental Studies, Environmental Science
  Level:Secondary
  Grade: 9 10 11 12
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  Heat Up Over Climate Change: Rising Tide

  This lesson is part of UNICEF’s Heat Up Over Climate Change action pack. The objective of this lesson is to highlight the situation that low-lying countries are facing with rising sea-levels caused by climate change. Students...

  Type:Lesson Plan
  Topic:Natural Disasters, Water Issues
  Subject:Geography, Social Studies
  Level:Intermediate / Middle
  Grade: 4 5 6 7 8 9
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  Living in a Changing Climate—Canada's Water Resources (poster))

  A poster that describes how climate change is having and will impact water resources. Accessible to students. It supports student inquiry into climate change and its impacts.

  Type:Research
  Topic:Air, Atmosphere and Climate, Ecosystems, Natural Disasters
  Subject:Science, Geography, Environmental Studies, Earth Science, Environmental Science
  Level:Intermediate / Middle, Secondary
  Grade: 7 8 9 10 11 12
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  New thinking on climate change: Al Gore's new slideshow (2008)

  In AL Gore's new slide show (2008), he presents evidence that the pace of climate change may be even worse than scientists were recently predicting, and challenges us to act with a sense of “generational...

  Type:Video
  Topic:Air, Atmosphere and Climate, Globalization, Natural Disasters
  Subject:Science, Geography, Health & Wellbeing, Social Studies, Global Studies
  Level:Secondary
  Grade: 9 10 11 12
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  Our Climate Is Changing—Our Forests Are Changing—What About Us?

  An excellent series of PPT slide-like pages that provide basic climate change science; examine the impacts particularly on forests; and present solutions (Ontario). Suitable to support student inquiry into climate change impacts and...

  Type:Research
  Topic:Air, Atmosphere and Climate, Ecosystems, Natural Disasters
  Subject:Science, Geography, Environmental Studies, Earth Science, Environmental Science
  Level:Secondary
  Grade: 9 10 11 12
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  Through the Eyes of a Boy / Through the Camera of a Girl

  This short film has been produced by Mery, 17, from El Salvador with the support of Plan. She documents the life of a young boy from a coffee plantation, and how it is affected by climate change. The video was first screened at the...

  Type:Video
  Topic:Air, Atmosphere and Climate, Natural Disasters, Social Justice
  Subject:Geography, Social Studies, Environmental Studies, Global Studies
  Level:Secondary
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