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Climate change, energy, energy efficiency, and our environment are important yet complex topics to introduce to students. Here are some activities and resources to help make teaching, and learning, easier and more fun!
- NEW Degrees of Change (Climate Prosperity) - Candain Geographic and NRTEE's interactive map and lesson plans on Climate Change
- NEW Climate Change and our Water Cycle an interactive activity for students of all ages to explore the possible effects of climate change and local impacts and adaptations to it.
- CanChange Canadian Wildlife Federation Climate Change Education Resources for Teachers.
- Climate Change Saskatchewan Bookmark
- Click on Climate is an amazing educational resource produced by Partners for the Saskatchewan River Basin.
- SaskPower Shand Greenhouse Energy & Our Environment Poster Contest
- Energy and Environment poster contest by Natural Resources Canada's Office of Energy Efficiency. Educators can enter their elementary classes in the calendar contest. Art work will be collected through a nation-wide art contest and one winner will be selected from each province and territory in Canada.
- The Royal Saskatchewan Museum offers fun and educational programs in the areas of Earth Sciences, Life Sciences and First Nations for students in Kindergarten to Grade 12.
- Sample Climate Data Set - consider using in your math class.
- Posters and associated lesson plans available through Natural Resources Canada.
- C-CIARN also has a series of posters available.
- Climate Change Saskatchewan Art Gallery section
- Youth section - check out the children's activities here.
- Saskatchewan Learning maintains a search feature on the Kindergarten to Grade 12 school curriculum. Use it to search for "Climate Change."
- Environmental Education Programs
- Project Wet
- Project Wild
- Focus on Forests
- Prairie Water Care
- Safe Drinking Water
- Fishways Saskatchewan
- Below Zero
- Project Soils - contact Saskatchewan Soil Conservation Association at 306-695-4233 or e-mail info@ssca.ca
Interactive Map websites
NEW Canadian Geographic’s Interactive site on Climate Prosperity
NEW Carbon Footprint Atlas
NEW Climate Change Trends: Carbon Emissions Giants
Climate Connections: A Global Journey
A Journey through Climate History
Dark-Sky and Energy Conservation Resources
International Dark-Sky Association - has specific resources for teachers. Also has a great short video "Our Vanishing Night".
Global campaign to save energy and fight light pollution
Globe at Night
Dark Sky Rangers Program
Seeing Blue
AuroraMAX - Canadian Space Agency
Hiding from the Lights
Using Google Earth to Explore Climate Change
Google Earth has a variety of layers that explore the impacts of climate change.
Google Earth Outreach Showcase has a variety of maps to choose from exploring water rise, temperature changes, and other environmental effects and thier impacts. YouTube Tutorial
The Impact of a Global Temperature Rise of 4°C - an interactive site that explores some of the possible impacts of climate change.
Climate Change in our World - an interactive animation showing how climate change and global temperature rises could affect our world.
YouTube Resources to Explore Climate Change
EarthOutreach by Google Earth offers are variety of videos to explore climate change and other global issues.
Climate Change in Google Earth offers a series of short YouTube videos exploring a variety of climate change issues around the globe.
Met Office YouTube Channel offers a variety of short videos that explore climate change topics, science and issues.
YouTube COP15 Channel The "Raise your voice" channel is part of a collaboration between the Government of Denmark and Google/YouTube to focus on increasing awareness of climate change.
NEW Virtual Participation | COP 16 / CMP 6 find UNFCCC Live and On-demand webcast from COP 16 / CMP 6, UNFCCC YouTube, UNFCCC Facebook, UNFCCC Twitter, UNFCCC 'Negotiator' iPhone and iPad applications, UNFCCC Flickr, UNFCCC Greenhouse gas data on Google maps, and United Nations Gateway to Climate Change.
Video Games for Exploring Climate Change Challenges
Video Game - Climate Challenge - A game where you are president of the European Nations. You must tackle climate change and stay popular enough with the voters to remain in office.
NEW Video Game - Fate of the World - the sequel to Climate Challenge. A dramatic global strategy game that puts all our futures in your hands. The game features a dramatic set of scenarios based on the latest science covering the next 200 years. You must manage a balancing act of protecting the Earth’s resources and climate versus the needs of an ever-growing world population, who are demanding ever more food, power, and living space. Will you help the whole planet or will you be an agent of destruction?
