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  • Sustainable Development

    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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  • Solutions

    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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  • Solutions

    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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  • Water Issues

    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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  • Solutions

    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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  • Solutions

    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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  • Sustainable Development

    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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  • Solutions

    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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  • Solutions

    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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