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Earth Care: Recycling Quiz: Primary [Pdf]
This recycling quiz for primary students is helpful for promoting discussion. Answers will vary depending on the recycling programs in your area.
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Earth Care: Wat Er We Good For?
By performing a water audit at school and at home, students will become aware of ways to reduce their water use.
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Earth Care: Media Campaign
As a culminating activity for a waste management unit, students could undertake this task. It involves creating a media message, e.g., a pamphlet or video, to highlight the current waste management situation and to promote more...
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Earth Care: Reduce Your Ecological Footprint Poster Project
An assignment for students to create a poster that encourages people to reduce their ecological footprints. While it says it's for intermediate grades and up, this activity could easily be done with junior grades as well. There are links...
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Earth Care: Wild Waters Downtown
Urban settings have many wild animals and they need water just as humans do. Students will investigate the animals around them and determine where they get clean water. This is followed by a discussion of how these animals might be...
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Earth Care: Who Left the Lights On?
In this kindergarten lesson, students will learn the importance of turning off lights when they are not being used.
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Earth Care: Earth Care Quiz
With a focus on environmental issues in Canada, this quiz makes a good discussion starter for older students and for adults.
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Earth Care: Now You're in Trouble
For this activity, Grade Two students build a classroom maze and investigate water drainage, learning about the urban sewage system in the process and why people need to be more mindful of what goes into it.
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Earth Care: The Recycling Maniacs [Pdf]
The Recycling Maniacs is a short script for a classroom play to teach the benefits of recycling.
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Earth Care: Garbage vs Recycle Centre [Pdf]
Kindergarten students will learn the importance of recycling by using the correct receptacles in their classroom.
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Earth Care: Good Garbage vs Bad Garbage [Pdf]
Kindergarten students will participate in schoolyard cleanup and learn to tell the difference between safe and unsafe litter.
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Earth Care: Where's the Drip? [Pdf]
Kindergarten students will learn about water conservation as they search for leaky taps and toilets.
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Earth Care: Sort and Sift [Pdf]
In this lesson, students will examine the litter they produce in their classroom and that their families produce at home, and identify ways they can reduce waste and recycle more.
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Earth Care: Just One Drop [Pdf]
For this lesson, Grade One students will discover how much water they use for daily activities and ways to reduce their water consumption.
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Earth Care: Movers and Shakers [Pdf]
Wind is created in areas where there are temperature shifts. For this lesson, Grade Two students will investigate areas of their schoolyard where there are 'wind tunnels' and 'wind shadows'. They will then use this information to...
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Earth Care: Worm Wranglers [Pdf]
A lesson plan in worm composting for Grade Three.
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Earth Care: Sound Busters [Pdf]
In this activity, Grade Four learners conduct a sound audit of their school to see if there are areas with excessive noise.
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Earth Care: Environmental Checklists [Pdf]
For this activity, students create environmental checklists for monitoring their own and their community's level of 'environmental stewardship.'
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Earth Care: Once More With Feeling [Pdf]
For this activity, learners will explore creative ways that materials can be reused. They will then create a commercial to advertise innovative ideas. Follow-up suggestions include having a sale or contacting local secondhand stores.
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Earth Care: Recycled Paper [Pdf]
After investigating and monitoring paper use at school, students will develop a plan for reducing their own paper use.
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Earth Care: Where's the Heat? [Pdf]
Students will work alongside the school caretaker to determine ways in which their school loses heat, and learn about strategies that can reduce or prevent this.
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Earth Care: Filter It Down [Pdf]
Students will investigate how different materials filter water and learn about water treatment.
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Earth Care: The Abandoned Mine [Pdf]
For this mini-unit, learners will research urban waste disposal issues, and investigate the practicality and environmental impact of using an abandoned mine as a landfill.
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Earth Care: Types of Lights [Pdf]
Studying what kinds of lighting are used at school and what the routines are for using them will enable students to understand the challenges in reducing energy use in a large building. In the process, they will develop strategies for...