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Environmental Education Resources & Links
The DSSP is providing linkages for educators, students and other stakeholders to access and disseminate information to increase awareness about the environment and sustainable production & consumption; and promote action to reduce environmental footprint.
 for Educators
 for Students
 for Various Stakeholders
(Resources are listed in alphabetical order)
Campsite 24
MNR's interactive website for kids on nature and environmental education. This website is for both students and teachers, and brings Ontario's parks and protected areas to your home, classroom or library. Have fun while you explore the site and learn about environmental protection, plants and wildlife and Ontario's magnificent provincial parks...
Canadian Environmental Literacy Project
The mandate of the Canadian Environmental Literacy Project (CELP) is to develop open-access curriculum materials in support of teaching environmental studies in universities, colleges, and high schools in Canada. The focus is on materials that address Canadian issues within local, regional or international contexts...
The Clean Technology Report
The 2009 OCETA SDTC Cleantech Growth & Go-to-Market Report presents the findings of an extensive study undertaken in the autumn of 2008, where over 60 of Ontario's leading clean technology companies were surveyed...
Consume This! Buying that Matters
The Canadian Centre for Pollution Prevention (C2P2), through the support of the Ontario Trillium Foundation, has published a booklet for youth on the topic of sustainable consumption. Sustainable consumption is about making smart choices that meet consumer needs in less material and pollution intensive ways...
Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) Educational Module
An online educational web portal for primary school students and five accompanying lesson plans for educators on the topic of biodiversity and agriculture. The module has been designed to engage students in a variety of fun and active exercises reflecting the principles of education for sustainable development...
Durham Sustain Ability Education Programs
Durham Sustain Ability offers education programs (orientation sessions, workshops, seminars, workplace lunch 'n' learn sessions, etc.) on a wide variety of sustainability topics...
EarthCARE - An Environmental Education Partnership
EarthCARE An Environmental Education PartnershipTM is an action-oriented, curriculum-aligned program focusing on energy conservation, waste reduction, and water conservation...
Eco Mentors: ecoMentors Program
Elementary classes or environmental clubs in grade 1 - 6 will receive the assistance of an energetic and eager high school student to help enhance the environmental learning of the class. The high school student will deliver fun and engaging 1 hr lesson plans on a variety of topics that link to the Ontario Curriculum in Science and Technology and Social Studies according to the Integrated Environmental Education Framework of Ontario...
Encyclopedia of Earth
The Encyclopedia of Earth is a new electronic reference about the Earth, its natural environments, and their interaction with society. The Encyclopedia is a free, fully searchable collection of articles written by scholars, professionals, educators, and experts who collaborate and review each other's work. The articles are written in non-technical language and will be useful to students, educators, scholars, professionals, as well as to the general public...
Environment Canada's Youth Portal for Ontario Region
Connect to some of Environment Canada's best on-line resources for youth...
Environment Canada Pollution Prevention Documents and Resources for Educators
The following is a list of useful resources for educators to incorporate pollution prevention (P2) and other environmental issues and concepts into their lesson plans:
- Pollution Prevention Lesson Plans
A series of six lesson plans designed to integrate the concept of pollution prevention into the classroom...
- Pollution Prevention Activity Poster
This dual-sided, Environment Canada resource is for students between the ages of 5 and 9. The resource introduces the concept of pollution prevention (P2) through a colouring poster and various other interactive learning activities which include tips to practice P2 at home and at school, a word scramble, maze, word find, and a fill-in-the-blank exercise...
- Canadian Pollution Prevention Information Clearinghouse (CPPIC)
CPPIC is an Internet tool that provides information on pollution prevention with a Canadian focus. It explains pollution prevention, explores the benefits of P2 and provides examples of common P2 practices. It is a database of over 1600 P2 reference materials, including case studies, fact sheets, and web sites...
- Fact sheet series
These pollution prevention fact sheets cover topics including pollution prevention techniques, best practices, and pollution prevention activities that individual Canadians, companies, and organizations can incorporate into everyday practices...
E-Zone
Designed for elementary students, this website maintained by the Government of Ontario explains the challenges facing our planet and how to take action to protect the environment...
Green Energy TV
Check out this online television channel that airs videos about green, alternative, and renewable energy from around the world. You can view videos from a wide range of categories including solar power, green webinars, and hybrids. You can even upload your own videos and share your Green ideas with the world!...
The Green InnovatorTM
The Green InnovatorTM is a unique education program and curriculum aimed at high school students that explores issues of sustainability through design. With our planet facing a myriad of environmental challenges, The Green InnovatorTM provides students with unique tools and strategies for thinking critically about innovative solutions ...
GreenLearning.ca
GreenLearning is a premier learning resource for innovative teachers. Lessons and activities are curriculum-aligned, comprehensive, fun and FREE...
Green Teacher
Green Teacher is a magazine that helps youth educators enhance environmental and global education inside and outside of schools...
Journey Towards Sustainable Production
This 17-minute video produced by OCETA highlights the accomplishments and thoughts of companies from a variety of manufacturing sectors, including specialty chemical, paint, printing, and metal finishing, on "how to" steps they have taken to integrate sustainability into their business strategy and operations...
Kawartha Environmental Educators Network
This web site is designed to help teachers and youth leaders who work near Peterborough,
Ontario to find the best possible resources to support high quality environmental education. All of the listed resources have been evaluated, and all are highly recommended by teachers and youth leaders...
Moraine For Life: Oak Ridges Moraine
The Moraine For Life Web site invites users to explore interactive environmental education and other resources on the formation, history and hydrogeology of the moraine. The Oak Ridges Moraine (ORM) Foundation has supported an Education and Public Awareness Program to share information and research gathered from across the moraine, with schools and the general public. Class room presentations are periodically available through Moraine focused organizations, so check the Web site for more information...
Obviously.ca
Maintained by youth for youth, the aim of obviously.ca is to provide accurate, verifiable, and entertaining information to help you make environmentally-conscious decisions...
Ontario EcoSchools
Ontario EcoSchools is an environmental education program that addresses both how the schools are run and what students learn. It has been designed collaboratively by school boards for school boards to incorporate environmental education as well as environmentally responsible action into the school setting...
Ontario Society for Environmental Education (OSEE)
The Ontario Society for Environmental Education is an association for educators dedicated to the promotion and improvement of environmental education...
The Otesha Project
The Otesha Project's education programs and bicycle tours use theatre, multi-media, and storytelling to engage a wide range of audiences, and have reached more than 72,000 people to date. Otesha's performances focus on re-evaluating our daily choices to reflect the kind of future we'd like to see...
Purchasing Impact Estimator (PIE)
Environmentally preferable purchasing (EPP) is an activity of increasing importance for organizations large and small. There is dramatic growth in the number of products that are touted as being environmentally preferable, and in the volume of information being provided about such products. PIE aims to be a simple and useful green purchasing tool by giving an objective assessment of the degree to which your organization's purchases are having an environmental impact...
Ready, Set, Green!
Ready, Set, Green! - Tips, Techniques and Resources from Ontario Educators, was prepared by the Ontario Ministry of Education to support effective environmental education and environmentally sound practices in Ontario schools...
Resources for Rethinking
Are you looking for resources for your classroom that support Education for Sustainable Development? ESD integrates the ecological, social, and economic spheres through learning that is active, relevant, and interdisciplinary. Check out Learning for a Sustainable Future's online database, which provides teachers with improved access to excellent resources such as curriculum guides on global issues and lesson plans on aboriginal themes...
Schools for a Living Planet
Schools for a Living Planet education program is designed to help Canadian teachers give their students the knowledge they need to make a difference in our planet’s future. Each unit is linked to grade-appropriate curriculum, and the in-class activities use a variety of formats that work with every teaching and learning style...
Shaping Our Schools, Shaping Our Future
Report of the Working Group on Environmental Education - June 2007. Schools have a vital role to play in preparing our young people to take their place as informed, engaged, and empowered citizens who will be pivotal in shaping the future of our communities, our province, our country, and our global environment...
Sustainable Pickering
The Sustainable Pickering Program is an initiative of the City of Pickering's Office of Sustainability. The Sustainable Pickering Web site provides a portal to a number of environmental sustainability resources, tools and projects in the City of Pickering...
Teens Turning Green
Teens Turning Green is a national movement of teens transforming the world through investigating harmful exposures in daily lives, schools and communities, advocating for change in policy and habits to protect our world, and educating peers and the community about healthier choices. Through collaborative change, these young leaders inspire us all to work towards a healthier and more sustainable future...
Zerofootprint Kids Calculator
Zerofootprint Kids is an online application that encourages and empowers the kids in your school to take action on climate change. The web-based calculator and secure social networking application enables kids, teachers and parents to measure, track and manage their carbon footprints, and to collaborate with one another to achieve environmental goals...
Zerofootprint Universities
Zerofootprint Universities is an online application that can help mobilize and empower your university community to take action on climate change. The web-based calculator and social networking application gives students, faculty, staff, alumni and offsite learners the ability to measure, track and manage their individual carbon footprint, and to collaborate with other members of the university to achieve environmental goals...
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