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  Water Stewardship – From Source to Sea

  This presentation will identify elements of water literacy through a stewardship study with grades 4/5 school students. While drawing from a specific school project, it will identify elements that can be transferred to other...

  Type:Video
  Topic:Water Issues
  Subject:Geography, Social Studies, Environmental Studies, Global Studies, Environmental Science
  Level:Primary / Elementary, Intermediate / Middle
  Grade: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9
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  Water Vapor: Feedback or Forcing? (Pilot)

  This module is on water vapor's role in the atmosphere and climate change. After reading through the scenario and using the additional resources provided, students complete investigations to further their understanding and...

  Type:Lesson Plan
  Topic:Air, Atmosphere and Climate, Water Issues
  Subject:Mathematics, Science, Geography, Technology and Skilled Trades, Environmental Studies
  Level:Primary / Elementary, Intermediate / Middle, Secondary
  Grade:K 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12
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  Watershed Monitoring and Reporting Progress Summary

  Published by Toronto and Region Conservation for the Living City , this 2014 report highlights the Regional Watershed Monitoring Program and additional projections. This resource has been to chosen for students to use in...

  Type:Research
  Topic:Ecosystems, Natural Resources, Water Issues
  Subject:Science, Environmental Studies
  Level:Secondary
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  Watersheds and Climate Change, Ask-an-Expert

  Paul Lehman is the General Manager of Mississippi Valley Conservation Authority (MVCA) — the conservation agency responsible for the Carp and Mississippi watersheds in the Ottawa Valley in Ontario. Climate Change Where I...

  Type:Research
  Topic:Air, Atmosphere and Climate, Ecosystems, Water Issues
  Subject:Science, Geography, Interdisciplinary Studies, Social Studies, Environmental Studies
  Level:Secondary
  Grade: 9 10 11 12
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  Weathering Climate Confusion

  This activity helps students better understand the common misconceptions between the terms 'weather' and 'climate'. Students participate in small group discussion, a hands on activity to assess learning, and a...

  Type:Lesson Plan
  Topic:Air, Atmosphere and Climate, Science and Technology
  Subject:English / Language Arts, English as a Second Language, Environmental Studies, Earth Science, Environmental Science
  Level:Primary / Elementary, Intermediate / Middle
  Grade: 3 4 5 6 7 8
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  Wend Wendland on Traditional Knowledge

  Wend Wendland, World Intellectual Property Organization, delves into the issues of traditional knowledge, looking at where the rights lie, and the treaties emerging to protect them. View video here

  Type:Video
  Topic:Environment, Human Rights
  Subject:Social Studies, Environmental Studies, Aboriginal Studies, Environmental Science
  Level:Secondary
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  What About Shady Acres?

  This simulation activity is modelled after a controversial land development process that actually took place in the Town of Canmore in 1996 - but it is reminiscent of land development and land use issues that occur throughout Alberta....

  Type:Lesson Plan
  Topic:Governance, Natural Resources, Taking Action
  Subject:Geography, Social Studies, Environmental Studies
  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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  What is a Carbon Offset?

  What is a carbon offset?

  Type:Lesson Plan
  Topic:Air, Atmosphere and Climate, Business and Economics, Sustainable Development
  Subject:Science, Geography, Business Education, Social Studies, Environmental Studies
  Level:Secondary
  Grade: 10 11 12
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  What Is a Watershed? - Poster

  A poster that explains what a watershed is. Very useful in the Watershed-Climate Change Inquiry (one in the series of Climate Change Where I Live Inquiries). (Linked here and listed in Attachments)

  Type:Research
  Topic:Air, Atmosphere and Climate, Ecosystems, Water Issues
  Subject:Geography, Social Studies, Environmental Studies, Earth Science, Environmental Science
  Level:Intermediate / Middle, Secondary
  Grade: 7 8 9 10 11 12
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  What is Biological Diversity?

  Students play a round of “musical chairs” using drawings of different species in a food web. The disappearance of “chairs” signals the extinction of that species. Students learn how the extinction of species...

  Type:Lesson Plan
  Topic:Biodiversity, Ecosystems
  Subject:Science, Environmental Studies, Biology
  Level:Primary / Elementary
  Grade:JK K 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8
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