How do our everyday actions contribute to our ecological footprint? Can we change our individual actions to be more environmentally friendly and create a more sustainable lifestyle? In this lesson, students will evaluate their own environmental impact using an online tool called Your Plan, Your Planet, and evaluate simple ways to reduce their ecological footprint as an individual or community.

This video is useful in making connections to defining a niche market in an effort to stand out against the competition. Connections to TOUE15C outcome in Saskatchewan Tourism curriculum.

Sustainability is a major focus in on-farm practices in Alberta, and farmers speak to what that means in their every day lives.

This lesson for English Language Learners (ELLs) introduces a set of global goals that all countries around the world should strive to achieve, the United Nations' Sustainable Development Goals. In this lesson, learners will practice reading, listening, speaking and writing. All activities are automatically graded with feedback provided to the learner upon submission.

This resource was designed for educators and provides hundreds of ideas for the classroom for integrating Education for Sustainable Development Goals (ESD) into their classrooms.

There are resources for:
No poverty
Zero hunger
Good health & well-being
Quality education
Gender & equality
Clean water & sanitation
Affordable, clean energy
Decent work & economic growth
Industry, innovation, infrastructure
Reduced inequalities
Sustainable communities
Responsible consumption & production
Climate action
Life below water
Life on land
Peace, justice, strong institutions
Partnerships

This is a fantastic resource!

Sustainable Seafood means that there was no damage caused to the environment or native species by catching the fish, crab or clam on your plate. There is a very simple way for you to make a positive impact on the health of our oceans and fish populations, and that is to choose sustainable seafood. This does not mean choosing between farmed fish or wild caught fish – there is much more involved than that. Learn about the different methods of fishing and understand the story of how the seafood reaches our plate. Every human, no matter where you are in the world, as both a positive and negative impact on the ocean. Exploring this story map helps us understand how our little choices can make a big impact.

TED Studies, created in collaboration with Wiley, are curated video collections 逖 supplemented by rich educational materials 逖 for students, educators and self-guided learners. In Reworking the Western Diet, speakers examine how that diet 逖 processed, high in refined sugars, and heavy in corn, soy, meat and dairy 逖 is making us and the environment sick. These TED Talks blaze the trail to sustainable farming and a more sensible diet.迨

Legendary ocean researcher Sylvia Earle shares astonishing images of the ocean -- and shocking stats about its rapid decline -- as she makes her TED Prize wish: that we will join her in protecting the vital blue heart of the planet. Sylvia Earle has been at the frontier of deep ocean exploration for four decades. She's led more than 50 undersea expeditions, and she's been an equally tireless advocate for our oceans and the creatures who live in them. A quiz, thought provoking question, and links for further study are provided to create a lesson around the 18-minute video. Educators may use the platform to easily "Flip" or create their own lesson for use with their students of any age or level.

Students show their creativity and think like engineers as they design products or services that can be used to improve environmental problems in the community. While being aware of the steps of the engineering design process, students are challenged to consider all aspects of their products/services, including their costs, and impacts on the environment and people in their communities. They present their "green" solutions, in the form of advertisements, to the class for critical review of their feasibility.

Middle Years introduction to the challenge mindset using UN SDGs to explore careers that make a difference.

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Students will explore humans’ demands on the world’s water supply and discuss ways to conserve it.

In this animated short film, we meet a councillor who’s in denial about the negative impacts of a chemical leak in the lake that supplies his town’s water.?A turtle visits the councillor’s home to explain the problem, but the councillor refuses to admit anything is wrong and meets his demise.

Episode 3 of SARE’s “What is Sustainable Agriculture” video series provides an animated outline of the basic principles of conservation tillage. This is a basic explanation of conservation tillage and its benefits in agriculture.

Whales are a large diverse group of animals which belong to the clade Cetacea, which also includes porpoises and dolphins. Whales are charismatic creatures, who have captured the attention of millions around the world. Still, the world of whales is shrouded in mystery. One of the biggest challenges to studying whales is that they are hard to find. Less than 5% of the ocean has been explored, and it covers 71% of the surface of our planet. This makes whales challenging to research under wild conditions. It is thanks to dedicated researchers, explorers, and educators, that we are now beginning to understand just how incredible whales are, and how important they are to sustaining life in the ocean.

Conservation can deliver measurable economic value to farmers, lenders, insurers and landowners. These farmers realized positive financial returns and create...