Environment and Sustainability Lesson Plans

• Climate Change Heroes Lesson plans: Developed by the Environmental Justice Action Group members of the BCTF Committee for Action on Social Justice, these lessons inspire students from kindergarten through grade 12 to learn more about climate change and take positive action.
  

  Climate Justice in BC: Lessons for Transformation; developed by the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives and the BCTF

• These free resources can be used to address climate change and inequality by exploring climate justice within the BC context. Eight modules, designed for students from grades 8 to 12, also adaptable for intermediate grades, are available:

        Module 1: Introduction to Climate Justice 
        Module 2: Reimagining our Food System
        Module 3: Transportation and Transformation
        Module 4: Rethinking Waste
        Module 5: Fracking Town Hall
        Module 6: Green Industrial Revolution
        Module 7: Imagining the Future we Want
        Module 8: Challenges to Change 

• Educator Resources, by CAWST (Centre for Affordable Water and Sanitation Technology)
  CAWST’s Youth Wavemakers is a unique water education program that informs, engages, encourages action, and celebrates the impact that youth are having on local and global water and sanitation issues. This section of the website offers free resources by grade and subject area.
   
  
• The Environmental Impact of the Oil Sands: A Research Project for Secondary School Science Students (by the SFU center for education, Law and Society)
  This resource is designed to address the learning outcomes of the “Life sciences: Sustainability of Ecosystems” component of the British Columbia Science 10 Integrated Resource Package. It can be used specifically for the learning outcomes B2, “assess the potential impacts of bioaccumulation” and B3, “explain the various ways in which natural populations are altered or kept in equilibrium.”
  
  
• Beyond Recycling
  Wildsight provides over 20 self-directed lesson plans and 7 teacher taught lessons on a wide range of environmental topics. The programs aim to equip students with the knowledge they need to make important decisions for our planet. Students will look critically at the impact, or ecological footprint, of their schools, homes and businesses. Students will investigate the true environmental cost of a products lifecycle, including: extraction of raw materials, manufacturing, shipping, and distribution. The phenomenon of climate change will be explored and students will gain an understanding of the concept of cumulative impacts: that the choices they make on a daily basis contribute to the global issue of climate change. Through research, field trips, videos and special presentations, students will start to understand how our planet is impacted by our lifestyles, and the changes we can make to lighten our footprint. Included are several links. Visit the site for all the lesson plans.
  

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• Fractured Land lesson plans
        Previewing Anticipation Questions (DRAFT)
        Module 1: Canadian Stories, Canadian Identities (DRAFT)
        Module 2: Fracking and LNG in BC (DRAFT)
        Module 3: Colonialism Treaties and Moving Forward in Truth and Reconciliation (DRAFT)
  
  
• Protecting Our Sacred Waters teachers’ guide (Jane Goodall Institute and Learning for a Sustainable Future)
  This guide helps educators and youth program facilitators bring education for sustainable development to their students/youth in a transformative way through action projects. The guide provides tools for teachers to help youth choose a project topic and how to carry it out through the integration of FNMI ways of knowing. 
  
  
•  Resources for Rethinking developed by Learning for a Sustainable Future, provides sustainability resources reviewed by teachers for teachers.