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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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  Our Climate, Our Future

  This video is a compilation made from a series of video outputs of projects by Plan in partnership with IDS investigating the use of Participatory Video for working with children on climate change adaptation and disaster risk...

  Type:Video
  Topic:Food and Agriculture, Social Justice, Water Issues
  Subject:Geography, Social Studies, Global Studies
  Level:Intermediate / Middle, Secondary
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  Plant Productivity in a Warming World

  Warmer global temperatures and higher levels of precipitation are generally good for plant productivity, but as temperatures have continued to rise, the benefits to plants are now overwhelmed by longer and more frequent droughts.

  Type:Video
  Topic:Ecosystems, Food and Agriculture, Water Issues
  Subject:Science, Geography, Biology, Environmental Science
  Level:Secondary
  Grade: 9 10 11 12
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  Playground Politics

  A YouTube video to help students better understand the role of the International Monetary Fund, along with how countries work together toward mutual benefits.

  Type:Video
  Topic:Food and Agriculture, Solutions, Sustainable Development
  Subject:Geography, History and Social Science, Global Studies
  Level:Secondary
  Grade: 9 10 11 12
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  So what do you think and feel?

  Students create a "so what?" diagram in which they organize their personal reflection on the relationship between biodiversity and agriculture, and how it relates to things they care about.

  Type:Lesson Plan
  Topic:Food and Agriculture
  Subject:Visual Arts, Social Studies, Environmental Studies
  Level:Intermediate / Middle
  Grade: 4 5 6 7 8 9
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  Statistical Overview of the Canadian Maple Industry 2013

  This 11 page document provides up-to-date statistics on the maple industry in Canada with easy to read charts and tables including production, revenue, trade and world data.  Did you know, for example, that Quebec accounts for...

  Type:Research
  Topic:Business and Economics, Food and Agriculture, Natural Resources
  Subject:Geography, Business Education, Environmental Studies
  Level:Intermediate / Middle, Secondary
  Grade: 7 8 9 10 11 12
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  Sugar Maple Sap Yields Using One or Two Tapholes per Tree

  This accessible research article looks at research in Vermont to increase sap production in sugar maple trees by limiting tapholes to one or two per three.  Early results are dicussed.

  Type:Research
  Topic:Air, Atmosphere and Climate, Ecosystems, Food and Agriculture
  Subject:Science, Geography, Economics, Social Studies
  Level:Secondary
  Grade: 12
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  Testing tapping depth versus sap yield

  This newspaper-style article looks at research that investigates how the depth of tapping of maple trees affects the yield of sap to make maple syrup.  Includes helpful data charts.

  Type:Research
  Topic:Ecosystems, Food and Agriculture, Natural Resources
  Subject:Science, Geography, Family/Consumer Studies, Social Studies, Environmental Studies
  Level:Intermediate / Middle, Secondary
  Grade: 7 8 9 10 11 12
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  The Carbon Cycle: Activity 2

  This activity is designed to give students a basic chemical understanding of the carbon cycle and thereby giving them an understanding of why healthy plants are essential to a healthy habitat. While other greenhouse gases (besides...

  Type:Lesson Plan
  Topic:Air, Atmosphere and Climate, Ecosystems, Food and Agriculture
  Subject:Science
  Level:Intermediate / Middle
  Grade: 4 5 6 7 8 9
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  The Earth as an Apple

  The Earth as an Apple is a hands on activity which allows students to visualize how much of the Earth's surface is water and how much is land available for agriculture. This can be used as an introductory activity on population...

  Type:Lesson Plan
  Topic:Air, Atmosphere and Climate, Food and Agriculture, Natural Resources
  Subject:Mathematics, Geography, Global Studies, Earth Science, Environmental Science
  Level:Primary / Elementary, Intermediate / Middle, Secondary
  Grade: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12
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