Land use & Natural Resources

Land use & Natural Resources

11 Jul 2022
The Lives of Wild Native Bees - FREE ARTICLE
29 Mar 2021
An Inquiry-based Study of a Pipeline

An Inquiry-based Study of a Pipeline

Incorporating water quality testing into your classroom

29 Mar 2021
Students, Safe Water Gardens, and the UN SDGs

Students, Safe Water Gardens, and the UN SDGs

Delivering life-saving sanitation through awesome virtual travel!

29 Mar 2021
Christianity and Ecological Preservation in the Southeastern United States

Christianity and Ecological Preservation in the Southeastern United States

An understanding and implications for environmental educators and activists

24 Dec 2020
Money Does Grow on Plants

Money Does Grow on Plants

How to run a school plant sale for a lucrative bloom

8 Nov 2019
Greening Your Schoolyard with Native Plants

Greening Your Schoolyard with Native Plants

How to maximize your school garden and minimize excess labour

30 Apr 2019
The Garden as an Integrating Context for Learning

The Garden as an Integrating Context for Learning

Building cross-curricular connections year-‘round with sustainable food production.

21 Jun 2018
Maskwi’omin: A Birch Bark Antibiotic

Maskwi’omin: A Birch Bark Antibiotic

Bringing Western and Indigenous methods to the science classroom

13 Feb 2018
Interviewing a Sea Lion

Interviewing a Sea Lion

Using video and other social media to advance environmental activism in teens

12 Jun 2017
Feeding Plants to Feed the World

Feeding Plants to Feed the World

A sequence of activities to teach the nutrient story to middle and high school students

20 Jan 2017
Introducing Students to Landscape Architecture

Introducing Students to Landscape Architecture

Classroom activities spotlight a creative career choice that helps the environment

19 Sep 2016
Riding the Waves of EBE

Riding the Waves of EBE

Integrated environment-based education offers young students lessons in literacy, social studies, and science

5 Jul 2016
The Giving of the Gardens

The Giving of the Gardens

Inspiring a new year of growth by sharing garden accomplishments with next year’s gardeners

28 Apr 2016
Best Practices for School Gardens

Best Practices for School Gardens

Giving you the tools to overcome the challenges and be successful

28 Apr 2016
Learning to be Gentle Giants

Learning to be Gentle Giants

Inspiring nature-focussed values and habits in young children

18 Jan 2016
From Stems to STEM

From Stems to STEM

Helping young children learn about plants through engineering design

18 Jan 2016
Engineering to do Nothing

Engineering to do Nothing

Put to work the basic astronomy knowledge of 10-14 year olds in teaching passive solar house design

10 Sep 2015
Take the Green Challenge

Take the Green Challenge

Green Challenges provide easy access points for incorporating environmental themes into school culture, and help green schools get back to the basics

10 Sep 2015
Climate Justice in the Classroom

Climate Justice in the Classroom

Help high school students connect equity, economy, ecology, society and hope

10 Sep 2015
A Lean Green Sun Harvesting Machine

A Lean Green Sun Harvesting Machine

Making solar energy teaching more fun by using invisible forces to power race cars

16 Jun 2015
Mapping Watersheds

Mapping Watersheds

Teach teenagers about our impact on watersheds in this multidisciplinary cartography project

16 Jun 2015
Harvesting Life Lessons

Harvesting Life Lessons

How Youth Farm Projects teach teens a lot more than gardening

16 Jun 2015
From Blackberry Patches to Blacktop

From Blackberry Patches to Blacktop

The importance of bringing nature – and children’s connection to it – back to life

13 Nov 2014
Wetland Warriors

Wetland Warriors

Foster environmental connections via this interdisciplinary,middle school project

13 Nov 2014
Fracking: Unlocking the Great Debate

Fracking: Unlocking the Great Debate

The controversy behind hydraulic fracturing provides fuel for high school students to become critical thinkers

7 Jan 2014
Stormwater Stewards

Stormwater Stewards

Stormwater science lab and field activities for middle and high school students

31 Jul 2013
New Country, New Home, New Nature

New Country, New Home, New Nature

Welcoming immigrants through an intercultural outdoor recreation. By Adrienne Blattel.
An excerpt from Green Teacher's Summer 2013 issue.

15 May 2013
Visualizing More Sustainable Futures

Visualizing More Sustainable Futures

Contemporary education ignores the future but sustainability education requires it. Here’s a compelling rationale and some activities that will help young people think more critically and creatively about the future.
AN EXCERPT FROM GREEN TEACHER'S SPRING 2013 ISSUE.

7 May 2013
Investigating Water Pathways in Schoolyards

Investigating Water Pathways in Schoolyards

Based on a learning progression of student understandings, this hands-on activity provides high school students with a locally-relevant way to learn about the water cycle.

7 May 2013
Concrete Without Quarries

Concrete Without Quarries

A sustainable chemistry lab inspired by ocean corals that allows students to create concrete through a reaction using car exhaust and seawater.

7 May 2013
Zambian Girl Inspires Water Action

Zambian Girl Inspires Water Action

Real-life stories of hope empower youth to become global citizens and learn about water and sanitation issues.