Schools
- Global Warming Central
- SEEDS
- Way to Go! - School Program
- Canon Envirothon
- Climate Change: Teachers
- ClimateForChange | At School
- Ontario EcoSchools
- Green Learning
- Campus Climate Challenge
- Green Teacher
- Active & Safe Routes to School
- Climate: Electronic Resources
- AASHE: Campus Global Warming Commitments
- PEEP: Climate Change
- Fun Lessons in Renewable Energy
- Energy-Related Teaching Aids
It is important to learn about global warming because although it is harming our planet, there are many ways in which each one of us can help to reduce it. This guide will help you discover all about global warming, what causes it and what you can do at home or at school to help change it!
The SEEDS Foundation mission is “to develop and provide environmental sustainability and energy education resources to support Canadian educators as they promote student literacy and encourage their students to take personal action and societal responsibility for energy, sustainability, and the environment”.
This process is designed to guide you step by step as you set up and maintain a Way to Go! program in your school. There are 10 steps from start to finish: "small steps towards a big difference"
The Canon Envirothon is an annual competition in which winning state/provincial teams compete for recognition and scholarships by demonstrating their knowledge of environmental science and natural resource management.
Throughout this website, teachers will find valuable tools, interesting facts and great resources to help you make climate change relevant and interesting for your students in grades 4 - 12.
Tips for students, teachers and parents
An environmental education program that addresses both how the schools are run and what students learn, designed collaboratively by school boards for school boards to incorporate environmental education as well as environmentally responsible action into the school setting. Student success - in both academics and positive contributions to society - is the focus of Ontario EcoSchools.
Includes a wealth of online tools and resources to enable teachers, students, and parents to TAKE ACTION. Check out what you can do both at home and at school to lesson your impact on the environment.
The Challenge leverages the power of young people to organize on college campuses and high schools across Canada and the U.S. to win 100% Clean Energy policies at their schools.
Online articles
... promotes the use of active and efficient transportation for the daily trip to school, addressing health and traffic safety issues while taking action on air pollution and climate change.
The Chemists in the Library Working Group has compiled these electronic and print resources for further exploration of Chemists Celebrate Earth Day: here, there, everywhere! The resources have been classified by grade level and annotated.
The Association for the Advancement of Sustainability in Higher Education "is pleased to make available to the public this resource highlighting campuses that have made commitments to reduce their greenhouse gas emissions. We hope other institutions of higher education will follow and surpass these pioneers by making long-term commitments to climate neutrality."
The Physics & Ethics Education Project is an interactive website and virtual learning environment for secondary school science teachers and their students. It is a teaching resource developed to highlight the moral, ethical, social, economic, environmental and technological implications and applications of physics.
An example of a commercial educational product: Power House - Experiments in Future Technics provides an engaging introduction to renewable energy while teaching basic concepts and principles in physical science.
Links to teaching aids created by various providers
Last modified: 2011-09-02
