1. Take Our Annual Survey

Help us evaluate and improve our teaching resources by completing the 2009 GreenLearning survey!

We hope you will take a few minutes to answer our questions about your classroom experience with GreenLearning. All teachers who complete the survey will be entered into a draw for prizes such as Making it Green T-shirts.

Take the survey now!

2. See the New Topic for eCards

Teachers and students from Grande Cache Community High School, Parkland Composite High School, Niton Central School, Wildwood School and Hillcrest School in Alberta are now pilot testing GreenLearning's latest addition to eCards: a topic resource centre on Oil and Gas. Oil and Gas is the sixth topic in this popular program on energy which also includes Solar Energy, Wind Power, Energy Success Stories, Arctic Glaciers and Nuclear Power.

The Oil and Gas topic resource centre explores three questions:

• How do crude oil and natural gas become energy for human use?
• What are the advantages and disadvantages of our use of crude oil and natural gas?
• What role will crude oil and natural gas have in our energy future?
  

An Oil and Gas Fact Sheet is available now, and videos will be added later this spring. Like other eCards resources, this one is primarily designed for students in grades 7 through 9 and appropriate for Science, Social Science, Geography, Language Arts, and Media Literacy.

On the standalone eCards website, students research a topic such as Oil and Gas, answer research questions to demonstrate their knowledge, and then create an eCard with their own message and image. With teacher approval, they can send their eCards to family members, local politicians and other decision-makers. To learn more about eCards, visit http://ecards.greenlearning.ca.

3. Join an Upcoming Workshop

You can join a professional development workshop 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.

• London (eCards Expressing Our Voices): Thames Valley District School Board and London District Catholic School Board, April 22, 4:30–6:30.
• Jasper (eCards): ATA Global, Environment and Outdoor Education Conference (GEOEC), April 24. Register now.
  
• Vancouver (Climate Change): in collaboration with Walking the Talk at How Sustainability Education? A Solutions Summit, April 27. Register now.
• Ottawa area (eCards and EnerAction): Almonte-Pakenham-Carleton Place Family of Schools Professional Development Day, Upper Canada District School Board, May 1.
• Surrey (eCards): Surrey Teachers Association (STA) Professional Development Day, Global Peace...The Possible Dream, May 1.
• Surrey (Science 10–Socials Studies 10): Surrey Teachers Association (STA) Professional Development Day, Global Peace...The Possible Dream, May 1.

• Surrey (eCards series): Surrey Teachers Association (STA) Professional Development Workshop, workshop #2 of 2, May 5. Contact Selina Miller.
  

4. What's My Password?

Can't remember your password?

Click here to get your GreenLearning password and access our resources.

5. Happy Earth Day, April 22nd!

If you are doing something interesting with your class this Earth Day, let us know. We may feature your story for other teachers in an upcoming issue of GL News.