1. New Curriculum Links for EnerAction

EnerAction is now linked to Alberta's Grade 4, 5, 6 and 7 curriculum; British Columbia's Grade 4, 5, 6 and 7 curriculum; and Ontario's Grade 5, 6 and 7 curriculum — including the new Ontario Science and Technology curriculum.

Visit EnerAction to view or download these curriculum tables.

2. Take the Solar Oven Challenge

Register soon if you want to include your class in this popular Green Street approved program where you engage your students in building, testing and baking with a solar oven! We can accept only 40 entries, and more than 30 teachers have already registered.

Visit www.re-energy.ca to learn more about the Solar Oven Challenge.

3. That Ship Has Sailed!

Look for an exciting new educational opportunity from eCards to engage your students, peer-to-peer, in exploring the Arctic later this fall. While weathering rough seas, the 28 international Cape Farewell students who sailed September 7–20th aboard the MV Academik Shokalskly managed to create eCards about their Arctic experience. They also worked on art and science projects and creating personal blogs and videos. This collection of unique eCards, along with the research conducted during the voyage, will contribute to a new multi-media Topic Resource Centre for eCards.

Visit the Cape Farewell website to meet the students on the voyage and see their blogs, videos and photographs. Also see which Canadian schools are working with the students on their projects.

4. Upcoming Workshops

GreenLearning offers a variety of excellent professional development workshops for teachers. You can join one coming to a school near you or request a workshop for your school district. To learn more about our workshops, contact the GreenLearning Director in your region.

Upcoming workshops:

Leduc: Black Gold Regional Schools PD Session, Oct. 11, 9:00-11:30

Toronto (eCards): Ontario Association for Geography and Environment Education, Annual Conference, Oct. 24 & 25

Vancouver: Telus World of Science, EEPSA Stamping out Carbon Footprints, Oct. 24, 8:00-3:15

Toronto (EnerAction): EcoLeague Youth Forum, Oct. 30

Toronto (eCards): Science Teachers Association of Ontario, Annual Conference, Nov. 14

Calgary: EcoLeague Youth Forum, Nov. 26, all day

5. Register Now for a BC Workshop Series

We are now hosting two- and three-part workshop series to support teachers as they implement GreenLearning resources. The three-part EnerAction series includes a session to introduce the resource and support teacher planning; a second session to discuss successes and challenges along the way; and a final session for reflection and celebration. The two-part eCards series includes a preparatory session and a follow-up session.

Three workshop series are being piloted in Surrey and Richmond School Districts in October and November.

EnerAction series: Surrey, Sept. 17, Oct. 15 & Nov. 5. Contact Johan Stroman by Oct 1st to participate in this series.

eCards series: Surrey, Sept. 25 & Oct. 28. Contact Selina Millar.

Grade 10 climate change series: Richmond, Oct. 29 & Nov. 26. Contact Rosalind Poon.

6. New Curriculum Links for eCards

Teachers tell us that eCards works in many grades and subject areas. We are now developing new material, supporting activities and assessment rubrics for a number of subjects and grades in Ontario, Alberta and British Columbia, with links for other provinces soon to follow.

Ontario teachers, look for curriculum connections for eCards for each of these grades and subjects this fall:

• Grade 8 Geography
• Grade 9 Geography
• Grade 10 Civics
• Language Arts, particularly Media Literacy

Like the Ontario Grade 7 Geography material that launched eCards, these resources will be developed by teachers for teachers. Keep an eye on www.greenlearning.ca/ecards! We will post this new information under Curriculum Connections as it becomes available.

7. What are Teachers Saying About GreenLearning?

We extend a big thank you to the many teachers who completed GreenLearning evaluations last year. We are already using your feedback to improve our programs. We also appreciated hearing about what you really like about GreenLearning:

eCards — "Definitely enhanced learning. They had a focus, were motivated and had a sense of purpose. They are a lot more knowledgeable than if I had just presented to them."

"The students were very engaged and quiet completing their eCards. I like being able to monitor their progress along the way [and] the information being available without doing a ton of researching."

EnerAction — "The lessons were brilliant."

"Really impressed with the materials. Wish more teachers would come to workshops."

Solar Oven Challenge — "Students loved building their ovens and testing them out, and certainly baking with them."

Many of the teachers who register with GreenLearning hear about us from other teachers. To tell another teacher about GreenLearning, send them an email with this link for registration: http://www.greenlearning.ca/register. Or forward your colleague a copy of this newsletter.

8. What's My Password?

Can't remember your password? Click here to get your GreenLearning password and access our resources.

9. Our Thanks

Our thanks go out to Alexander Holburn Beaudin & Land LLP for supporting our GreenLearning work in British Columbia.