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Free educational resources (ages 9-12)
Lesson Plans and Teachers' Guides
Climate Change Posters and its Guide for Grade 5 (Natural Resources Canada)
These posters and its accompanying teacher guide will allow you to explain climate change in an interactive and captivating way.
Clean Air Heroes
Environment Canada has contributed to create this tool to help introduce air quality issues into the classroom. The poster design involves three Clean Air Heroes. Each hero has a different pollution problem to fight using specific tools. The three environments are: industry, urban transportation and rural neighbourhoods.
NEW The FrogFiles: an educator's guide to frogs
This guide provides lesson plans and classroom ready resources to engage youth from kindergarten to grade 6 in learning about amphibian biology, diversity and their importance in the ecosystem. Pan-Canadian curriculum links are identified.
Pedagogical posters on wetlands and biodiversity
The Connected Planet: Looking at Biodiversity explores the complex issue of biodiversity and presents it in an interesting way PDF (4.48MB)
Wetlands: Wet, Wild and Essential: Poster that explains what wetlands are, their functions, their links with biodiversity and how to protect them. PDF (1.65 MB)
Wetlands Mean Life: Poster that addresses more specifically biodiversity, ecosystems, world wetland distribution and waterbird identification. PDF (3.23 MB)
You can order hard copies at Wildlife.Ontario@ec.gc.ca.
Hinterland Who’s Who
Find lesson plans to teach young people about important conservation concepts such as biodiversity, sustainability, ecosystem conservation and endangered species recovery in Canada.
National Wildlife Week
Each year Canadian Wildlife Federation selects a wildlife-related theme and develops education and awareness materials for educators and the public.
Teaching Kit Series on Forests (Canadian Forestry Association's )
The CFA Teaching Kit Series provides educators with the tools to help young people better understand the value of forests and the importance of protecting and conserving them. Each kit includes detailed lesson plans, practical information on forest issues, and examples of relevant recovery, conservation and stewardship programs.
Water Heroes (BC Transit and Environment Canada)
Use the story and the characters to raise interest about water issues in your classroom. Visit the Teacher's Corner for supporting activities.
Project WET (Canadian Water Resources Association)
Project WET develops and disseminates classroom ready teaching aids on water. Coordinators train facilitators who in turn conduct informative, interactive and fun workshops for classroom teachers, agency educators, resource managers and others.
Rivers to Oceans Week (Canadian Wildlife Federation)
Rivers to Oceans Week reminds us that safeguarding the health of all water -- local springs, creeks, streams, lakes, rivers, wetlands and even groundwater -- flowing through our watersheds also improves the quality of Canada’s oceans. Poster, teacher guide and students activities available.
Sky Watchers
Sky Watchers provides free teaching material on the subject of weather, including explanations, experiments and activities that overlap into related subjects like mathematics and geography.
Lesson Plans in Pollution Prevention
This product is designed to assist in teaching about the concept of pollution prevention (P2), and how P2 is an effective way to protect and conserve our natural environment. This site also offers other tools such as a pollution prevention plan for the classroom and a Pollution Prevention Activity Poster.
Parks Canada Teachers’ Corner
Classroom-ready educational resources that will enhance your students' learning experiences about Canada's national historic sites, national parks and national marine conservation areas.
Lessons Plans
Teacher’s Guides
Toxic Chemicals in the home and in the environment: Guide for Students and Teachers
This resource guide enables students to crtitically examine the chemicals in products we use daily, explore the impact those chemicals have on our health and the environment, and propose safer and healthier alternatives for ourselves and the planet.
