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Ethics in Action: Adopting an Environmental Practice

This environmental ethics assignment, adaptable to all grade levels, challenges students to align their behavior with environmental ethics, and in the process learn how much easier it is to change an old habit or adopt a new one than they thought.

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A Permaculture School Garden

Applying the principles of a design methology called permaculture to school gardens and other projects helps to reinforce the values of resourcefulness, stewardship and sustainability.

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Growing a Just Society: Linking Trade, Human Rights and the Environment

This series of activities and games helps student understand that a healthy environment is a human right, and how global trade and consumer choices affect those rights.

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Sustaining Outdoor Classrooms

How to keep outdoor classrooms from becoming a forgotten and abandoned bed of weeds

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The Field of Dreams (and Other Outdoor Classroom Myths)

It takes more than benches and butterfly bushes to create a well-used outdoor classroom. Here’s how one school is succeeding through creative ideas that give teachers the training, tools, and confidence to take learning outdoors.

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Roots of Diversity: Growing Culturally Significant Plants in the Classroom

Ideas and curricular connections for growing plants that celebrate the cultural diversity of our communities.

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Georgia’s Outdoor Classroom Symposium

How Georgia educators have developed the most successful outdoor classroom movement on the continent.

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Valuing Nature in Environmental Education

Activities for introducing concepts of environmental economics, for grades 5-6.

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Sunnyside and the Wolf

Testifying at public hearings on contentious issues is an opportunity for students to gain first-hand experience in participatory democracy and an understanding of their role as citizens.

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Kids Teaching Kids: The Tantramar Wetlands Centre Project

Known as the "Wetheads," a group of New Brunswick high school students are delivering wetland education programs to 4,000 schoolchildren annually at the school's restored wetland.

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