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Teacher ResourcesLessons & ActivitiesABC Teach?Great Website for worksheets.Canadian Wildlife Federation?Project Wild – Lessons and activities for kindergarten to grade 12 on biodiversity and habitat conservation.Caring Together?A virtual museum for you to explore as your fancy and interests dictate. Discover 5,000 never-before-seen works and a goldmine of information, in seven sections reflecting different aspects of Frédéric Back’s world. Frédéric wanted this invaluable reference source to be available for artists, students and teachers. He also hopes the site will serve as a rallying point for those who care about the environment.Convention on Biological Diversity?Lesson plans and assessment tools on biodiversity and agriculture.Evergreen?Lesson plans submitted by teachers on schoolyard greening, covering kindergarten to grade 12.Learning for a Sustainable Future?Lessons and activities for teachers, reviewed by teachers on sustainable development. Materials for kindergarten to grade 12, searchable by province, grade, subject and more.New Brunswick Federation of Naturalists?Lesson plans and activities on endangered species and habitats, keyed to the New Brunswick curriculum for grade 4 and 7.National Geographic?Offering lesson plans and activities on subjects like biodiversity, map fundamentals and ecoregions.(International)Ontario EcoSchools?Ontario Ecoschools – an environmental education program designed by school boards, providing resource units for elementary and secondary grades on the topics of waste minimization, energy conservation, school ground greening and ecological literacy.Ontario Ministry of Natural Resources?“Bear Wise”?– Activities, teacher’s guide and fact sheets about the behaviour and biology of black bears, and bear safety.The P.I.N.E. ProjectThe P.I.N.E. Project's mission is to inspire healthy, lifelong connections between people and nature through outdoor learning and play.Resources for Rethinking?An online database where educators and the general public can search for the environmental education teaching resources on issues related to the development of an environmentally, socially, and economically sustainable society. R4R provides teachers access to lesson plans, curriculum units, and other resources.SEEDS Foundation?Curriculum linked activities on weather observation, bird and water conservation, and climate change. Also offering environmental writing challenges.UCanDoIt Woodworking for Kids?We are a traveling woodworking program that comes to your school with everything needed to build a project. We use 30% recycled wood at our shop and use many household containers that would normally be thrown away. We build birdhouses, butterfly houses, windmills and many more projects that help teach how to be kind to our wildlife and our world. Each student takes home their own project that they built.WildED?WildED delivers Nature Education Programs to grades 4 – 12 with free educational resources on their website. WildED is a program that provides both educational rigour as well as catalytic experiences for young people to not only create awareness, enthusiasm, and curiosity, but to also inspire action and the desire to discover, care for and experience BC’s wilderness first-hand.Wildlifesightings?Wildlife Sightings provides full services to manage a citizen science class project with multiple students.Teacher Organizations & SitesBC Teacher’s Federation?The union of professionals representing 41,000 public school teachers in the province of British Columbia, Canada.Can Teach?Created to assist teachers in finding and using resources online, with an emphasis on Canadian content.CAWST’s Youth Wavemakers?CAWST’s Youth Wavemakers is a unique water education program that informs, engages, and celebrates the impact that youth have on local and global water and sanitation issues. Wavemakers provides free resources like lesson plans, games, videos, action grants, and action planning tools for educators to use in their K-12 classroom.The Council of Outdoor Educators of OntarioA non-profit, volunteer-based organization that promotes safe and high quality outdoor education experiences for people of all ages.Curriculum Services Canada Foundation?A Pan-Canadian standards agency for quality assurance in learning products and programs, offering evaluation, professional learning and mentoring services.Earth Child Institute?The Earth Child Institute invests in hands-on environmental and educational projects with and for children, both in and out of schools.Elementary Teachers Federation of Ontario?Representing over 73,000 members, the ETFO develops programs and services that both protect and enhance the working lives of elementary teachers.Link to Learning?A site that provides links supporting the Ontario curriculum.Ontario Association for Geographic and Environmental Education?Offering resources to promote geography and EE.The Ontario Association of Junior Educators?Providing professional development, advocacy, a forum for discussion, and more.Ontario Society for Environmental Education?OSEE is an organization for educators dedicated to the promotion and improvement of environmental education. Recognized by Ontario Teachers Federation.Ontario Teacher’s Federation?Set up by the?Teaching Profession Act?of 1944 as the professional organization for teachers in the province of Ontario.Royal Saskatchewan Museum?Offering online “Interactive Learning Centres”, information on museum educational programs, and a “Kid’s Domain” section with web games and activities. Educational focus on Life Sciences, Earth Sciences and First Nations.Sites for Teachers?Lists hundreds of educational websites, rated by popularity.?(Includes US and Canadian sites)School Express?Offering free activities, thematic units and e-workbooks on a variety of subjects.UNESCO?Offering “Teaching and Learning for a Sustainable Future”, a multimedia teacher education program that enables teachers to plan learning experiences for students on issues of sustainability.(International) ................
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