Environmental Education Links
The information on this website is for information purposes. Please use your professional judgment in ensuring resources/activities meet your students' needs and your school's/board's policies.
Acting Today, Shaping Tomorrow: A Policy Framework for Environmental Education in Ontario Schools
The policy framework for environmental education in Ontario, released in February 2009, offers school boards and schools an approach to environmental education that recognizes the needs of all Ontario students and promotes environmental responsibility in the operations of all levels of the education system.
Ministry of Education, Shaping our Schools, Shaping our Future
In Spring 2007, the Ministry of Education commissioned a report on environmental education in Ontario. Shaping our Schools, Shaping our Future, (also called the Bondar report). The report details 32 recommendations for improving environmental education in Ontario. The Ontario EcoSchools program aligns with and supports this report, providing means for boards and schools to implement these recommendations.
Revised Science and Technology Gr. 1-8 curriculum expectations were published on December 21 2007.
Ontario Ministry of Education, environmental education opportunities:
Elementary curriculum
Secondary curriculum
Waste Free Lunch
Thinking of implementing a waste-free lunch program? This site has implementation strategies, sample PA announcements, letter to parents etc. in the Teacher Resources Section.
Information about ‘phantom load’
David Suzuki Foundation
Within the climate change section of this web page, many useful explanations can be found on the science, impacts, politics of and solutions to climate change.
Sierra Club of Canada
This page links you to the Sierra Club's climate change campaign. Lots of background information, especially on the political background to climate change. Includes a very useful links page.
World Health Organization
The World Health Organization makes the connection between environmental and human health. This page links to many website which focus on the health impacts associated with climate change.
Parks Canada Teacher Resource Centre
Offers a variety of Grades 3 to 12 teaching and learning activities. Classroom-ready fact sheets, lesson plans and contests are tied directly to the provincial curriculum. Much of the material takes a hands-on, creative and fun approach to teaching subjects, including geography, biology, civics, science and technology and social sciences.
STAO - Science Teachers Association of Ontario
An association for educators dedicated to the promotion and improvement of environmental education.
Hydro Calculator
Canadian Wildlife Federation
Citizen's Environment Watch
Earth Day Canada
Evergreen Foundation
Federation of Ontario Naturalists
World Wildlife Fund
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