GreenLearning Canada

 

Recommended Education Websites

re-energy.caRe-energy.ca: Visit the Pembina Institute's most popular website! Re-energy.ca features construction instructions for building small-scale renewable energy projects that actually work! Try a solar-powered car, a solar cooker, a biogas generator, or a wind turbine — and learn more about renewable energy in the process.

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Natural Resources Canada's Energy and the Environment: Explore with NRCat! check out his tree-house to find lots of cool stuff about energy and energy efficiency — animation, adventures, artwork and more!

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Get to Know ContestGet To Know Contest: Go outdoors or to a local zoo, museum or aquarium to "get to know" your wild neighbours, and then enter the Get to Know Contest. Prominent Canadian wildlife artist Robert Bateman is inviting youth across Canada to create works of art, writing or photography that celebrate biodiversity. Winners will receive fantastic prizes, including the chance to have their artwork featured on Canada's first ever Youth Wildlife Habitat Conservation Stamp.

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Kick the Carbon Habit Education Campaign: Let this campaign help you kick the carbon habit! KCHEC, UNEP-RONA, is composed of 21 regional representatives promoting youth educating youth to reduce energy consumption. Recruited Ground Team members target elementary schools, high schools, universities and the general public to coordinate events that increase awareness and action to Kick the Carbon Habit.

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BCSEA Climate change boardBC Sustainable Energy Association: Have a look at this free classroom-delivered, fun and informative workshop for Grade 5 and 6 students. The Climate Change Game from the BC Sustainable Energy Association teaches students about climate change and ways to reduce their impact, and it gives them an incentive to carry out actions in their homes.

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CEC logoClean Energy Classrooms: Students, skilled workers and professionals can all benefit from the high quality training, education and networking options available at this site. Help build the human capacity required to really launch a clean energy future in Canada and around the world. Clean Energy Classrooms is a project of the BC Sustainable Energy Association, in partnership with Renewable Recruits. 

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HASTE logoHASTE—Hub for Action on School Transportation Emissions: Explore this new project that supports schools and their communities in taking action on reducing transportation emissions in British Columbia. This online resource and networking centre is designed to help students, teachers and schools improve the health of individuals, communities and the environment.

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BC Green Games logoBC Green Games: Register your class or school name and idea by November 30th, 2008.  BC Green Games offers $50,000 in prize money to BC school environmental action projects.

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DreamRider Theatre: Get to know BC's environmental education theatre company. DreamRider's mission is to build a generation of ecologically-responsible citizens through the excitement of live theatre. DreamRider introduces the fundamentals of environmental awareness to school age children inspiring them to take positive action and pass their inspiration onto their families and communities.

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Space for Species

Space for Species: This fun site from Environment Canada is an incredible space-trekking, species-tracking program for young Canadians. Monitor migratory animals, like the polar bear, eider, caribou, peregrine falcon, and leatherback seaturtle, as well as their habitats, from beyond the Earth's atmosphere.

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EcoKids Ecokids Online: There is lots of fun stuff to explore on this site! Mouse around the room to explore all the kid stuff, including activities, games, information, and more. There's also a teacher/parent area, a "club" and a feedback forum.

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Wonderville Wonderville: This is a really fun science site. Brought to you by The Science Alberta Foundation, Wonderville is full of cool science activities.

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Smog City Smog City: How smoggy is YOUR city? This is a very cool interactive air pollution simulator that shows how peoples' choices, environmental factors, and land use contribute to air pollution. In Smog City you're in control so your visit can be a healthy or unhealthy experience depending on the choices you make. Suitable for Grade 2 and up.

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Nye Labs NyeLabs: Take a spin around Nye Labs at the site of Bill Nye (the science guy). If anyone can make science really, really cool, it's Bill. He loves science. Check out the home demos for experiments such as Barometer in a Bottle; learn about nerves and other human characteristics; make marbled paper and much, much more!

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Energy Quest EnergyQuest: Roll your mouse around the room to find  different places to explore such as Super Scientists, Art Room, Science Projects, and Puzzles and Games. If you've got a science project coming up and you need ideas, or if you just want to make something cool, definitely check out the Science Projects section. The "make your own lightning!" experiment is really worth doing if you have a THOR complex! Created and updated by the California Energy Commission.

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Green Street Green Street: Go to green-street.ca for a wide variety of engaging projects for students and teachers in environmental learning and sustainability education. Green Street connects Canadian schools to reputable environmental education organizations across the country. These fun and affordable projects are relevant to students' concerns and curriculum-linked. They encourage a sense of personal responsibility for the environment, foster a commitment to sustainable living, and promote an enduring dedication to environmental stewardship.

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Climate Watch ClimateWatch: Watch a series of audio documentaries and public service messages about the Earth's atmosphere, climate change and global warming.

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Pacifica Pacifica: Visit this edgy New York not-for-profit network with good alternative coverage of US and global political issues.

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Living on Earth Living on Earth: Tune into NPR's weekly show about the environment.