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  4-Day Mini Unit: Challenge & Systems Thinking 8th Grade Physical Education

  This document provides an example of a teacher-created physical education unit that is grounded in the content and pedagogy of sustainability education. A focus on systems thinking and cooperative work will teach skills that are...

  Type:Lesson Plan
  Topic:Solutions, Sustainable Development
  Subject:Science, Physical Education, Environmental Studies
  Level:Intermediate / Middle
  Grade: 4 5 6 7 8 9
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  A Global Framework for Climate Services – Empowering the Most Vulnerable

  A Taskforce of High-level independent advisors, through consultation, were asked to prepare a Global Framework for Climate Services that was released in May 2011. This policy document includes the proposal presented by the High-Level...

  Type:Research
  Topic:Governance, Solutions
  Subject:Social Studies, Global Studies
  Level:Secondary
  Grade: 9 10 11 12
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  A System Redesign

  A System Redesign is one lesson from "Buy, Use, Toss? A Closer Look at the Things We Buy". In this lesson, students recall the hidden impacts associated with various components of the materials economy (the system of...

  Type:Lesson Plan
  Topic:Business and Economics, Recycling and Waste Management, Solutions
  Subject:Science, Economics, Social Studies, Global Studies, Environmental Science
  Level:Secondary
  Grade: 9 10 11 12
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  Action Tips

  This link leads to database of Environmental  'Action Tips', each of which calls youth to make changes throughout various aspects of their lives to ultimately become more green and help reduce environmental waste. The...

  Type:Lesson Plan
  Topic:Air, Atmosphere and Climate, Solutions
  Subject:Geography, Physics, Extra-Curricular
  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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  Action Tips: Conserve Water

  This link provides youth with a list of ways in which they can conserve more water throughout their daily lives.

  Type:Lesson Plan
  Topic:Solutions, Sustainable Development, Water Issues
  Subject:Science, Geography, Social Studies
  Level:Intermediate / Middle, Secondary
  Grade: 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12
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  Action Tips: Eco-Education

  This link provides students with basic ideas and facts on how to make their schools 'green'. It even helps students develop and submit an action plan to help lower energy uses and waste within their school!

  Type:Lesson Plan
  Topic:Energy Use and Conservation, Recycling and Waste Management, Solutions
  Subject:Geography, Social Studies, Environmental Studies
  Level:Intermediate / Middle, Secondary
  Grade: 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12
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  Action Tips: Encourage Friends and Familly to Recycle Efficently

  This link gives students ways in which they can help teach their families and friends to recycle more effectively. It provides a number of tips which students are to share with their families and friends to reduce waste in their...

  Type:Lesson Plan
  Topic:Recycling and Waste Management, Solutions
  Subject:Geography, Health & Wellbeing, Social Studies
  Level:Intermediate / Middle, Secondary
  Grade: 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12
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  Action Tips: Green Your Prom

  This webpages provides students with great tips and ideas to make their prom, or any school dance, environmentally-friendly.

  Type:Lesson Plan
  Topic:Solutions, Sustainable Development
  Subject:Geography, Social Studies, Extra-Curricular
  Level:Intermediate / Middle, Secondary
  Grade: 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12
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  Actions Tips: Combat Smog

  This webpages looks to motivate youth and provide them with helpful tips to combat smog and stop smog pollution. It also informs students on ways in which they can become more active within their local communities to help try and stop...

  Type:Lesson Plan
  Topic:Air, Atmosphere and Climate, Solutions
  Subject:Science, Geography, Social Studies
  Level:Intermediate / Middle, Secondary
  Grade: 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12
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  Al Gore on Averting Climate Crisis

  With the same humor and humanity he exuded in An Inconvenient Truth, Al Gore spells out 15 ways that individuals can address climate change immediately, from buying a hybrid to inventing a new, hotter "brand name" for global...

  Type:Video
  Topic:Business and Economics, Solutions
  Subject:Geography, Business Education, Family/Consumer Studies, Social Studies, Environmental Studies
  Level:Secondary
  Grade: 9 10 11 12
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