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 Arctic Alive -- interact with researchers online From April 21-25, 2003, Arctic researchers will be studying ecological change in Northern Alaska. This expedition will be online and will include live audio conferences with the researchers. Access to the web site and materials is by permission (users get login/password) and is free. However, there is a limit on the number of people that can participate in the audio-conference calls. The calls are taped and are then available for downloading the next day. This program is geared for students in 6-9th grade levels. If you are interested in this expedition, please contact Janet Warburton with your name, contact information, approximate grade level of student(s), and level of interest (i.e. you'd like to be involved in audio calls, just want access to the web site, only want the curriculum, etc...). Arctic Transect 2004 Arctic Transect 2004 has now completed its educational exploration of Nunavut. Setting out to document Arctic climate change, the expedition dogsledded the territory of Nunavut, meeting Inuit Elders and students, to explore traditional ecological knowledge in the remote communities visited along the trail while gathering scientific data daily from the field for NASA and Environment Canada. For details of this great adventure, check out www.polarhusky.com/2004/congrats.html. GoNorth! provides on-line education tools for K-12 curricula in geographic, natural and social science. Web site: http://www.polarhusky.com/ Ask Dr. Global Change The U.S. Global Change Research Information Office provides "Dr. Global Change" -- a reference service that assists researchers, students, educators, resource managers, decision makers and the general public in finding information and data relevant to global environmental change. Better Environmentally Sound Transportation (BEST) We are a strong voice for alternative transportation issues. We are dedicated to ensuring that effective transportation planning is adopted. And we give people the tools they need to make environmentally sound transportation choices.
More information: Calendar Club Consider making the NRCan Energy and the Environment Calendar an important part of your curriculum. Canadian children have never been more aware of, or concerned for, the many environmental issues that surround us. Their quest for relevant knowledge and information is boundless. Website: http://oee.nrcan.gc.ca/calendarclub/ ecoAction This government of Canada web site lets us know about what federal department, provincial and territorial governments, other agencies, and the international community are doing on climate change.
For general information on climate change, including requests for publications: Canadian Journal of Environmental Education This yearly publication covers a wide spectrum of environmental subjects, including climate change. Abstracts, dome full text articles, and information on purchasing and subscription are available on their web site. Volume 6, published in Spring 2001, will be of particular interest. Website: http://www.edu.uleth.ca/ictrd/cjee/ Canadian Wildlife Service We are Canada's national wildlife agency and we handle wildlife matters that are the responsibility of the federal government. This includes the protection and management of migratory birds and nationally important wildlife habitat, endangered species, research on nationally important wildlife issues, control of international trade in endangered species, and international treaties. Website: http://www.cws-scf.ec.gc.ca/ Centre for the Study of Carbon Dioxide and Global Change Within the walls of this virtual edifice, we describe a number of simple but effective techniques that will enable you to conduct your own research into questions related to potential CO2-induced environmental change, showing you both in words and pictures how to set up your experiment, conduct the study, and obtain and analyze the data. In addition, for certain specific experiments we include weekly tabulations of data, along with pictures of the plants, so you can continually check to see if your study is progressing as it should. Website: http://www.co2science.org/ Climate Change in the Arctic The sensitivity of the Arctic to climate change has direct consequences to human society. Our goal is to develop an interactive exchange between scientists active in climate change research at the University of Texas Marine Science Institute and K-12 students and teachers from the Port Aransas (Texas) Independent School District. The focus is on living arctic resources and Native cultures in the context of global change. Climate Change Solutions The world's largest Web site on climate change solutions has a new look, new navigation and new sections. Climatechangesolutions.com provides easy access to the information, tools and resources needed to translate concerns about global climate change into concrete local actions that can reduce greenhouse gas emissions. Learn about the science of climate change and follow the latest climate change news. Climatechangesolutions.com is a climate change education project. Web site: http://www.climatechangesolutions.com/ Cloud Charts This online cloud chart includes plenty of photos and explanations of the various types of clouds. This interactive cloud chart categorizes clouds by altitude and special features.. Destination Conservation Destination Conservation is an innovative school based conservation program where students, staff, school district staff and utility companies interact to initiate environmental education and conservation activities. Find out more at: http://ww.dcplanet.ca/ Educational Global Climate Change Links The Carbon Dioxide Information Analysis Center has compiled a listing of some sites that they hope will be of interest and of use to those looking for information, fun, ideas, and ways that they can make a difference. Encyclopedia of the Atmospheric Environment The Encyclopedia of the Atmospheric Environment is a one-stop source of information for younger and older users alike, on a range of atmospheric issues, including air quality, acid rain, global warming and ozone depletion. Web site: http://www.doc.mmu.ac.uk/aric/eae/ Energy Revolution: David Suzuki Foundation Climate Change Campaign Political, but concise info and cool interface: http://www.energyrevolution.net/ Environmental Defense Both domestically and internationally, Environmental Defense works to stabilize Earth's climate by reducing the emission of greenhouse gases. Global and regional air quality is another major area of action.
Contact: Evergreen Teacher's Corner Evergreen, a national non-profit environmental organization with a mandate to bring nature to Canada's cities, recently launched Teacher's Corner, a new on-line database of lesson plans designed specifically for teaching in an outdoor classroom. Teacher's Corner is designed to support teachers across Canada in their efforts to teach daily lessons on their school grounds. Evergreen's Teacher's Corner aims to feature over 100 lesson plans for Kindergarten to grade 12 by year-end. Teacher's Corner offers teachers one of the few places to find lesson plans and tips and techniques specifically for teaching in a naturalized school ground environment. Website: http://www.evergreen.ca/en/lg/lg-teach.html Exploring the Environment™ Exploring the Environment™ is a series of interdisciplinary, problem-based learning modules for high school students. The project engages student teams in addressing real-world problems related to weather, population growth, biodiversity, land use patterns, volcanoes, water pollution, and global warming. Teams analyze remotely-sensed satellite images to come up with solutions to open-ended earth science problems -- problems that real scientists are working on today in much the same fashion. Web site: http://www.cotf.edu/ete/ Global Change This online magazine presents a massive collection of articles, information, and links about climate change and ozone depletion. Web site: http://www.globalchange.org/ Global Warming: Early Warning Signs The map of early warning signs clearly illustrates the global nature of climate changes. In its 2001 assessment, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) concluded that, "an increasing body of observations gives a collective picture of a warming world and other changes in the climate system." While North America and Europe—where the science is strongest—exhibit the highest density of indicators, scientists have made a great effort in recent years to document the early impacts of global warming on other continents. Our map update reflects this emerging knowledge from all parts of the world. Although factors other than climate may have intensified the severity of some of the events on the map, scientists predict such problems will increase if emissions of heat-trapping gases are not brought under control. Web site: http://www.climatehotmap.org/ GLOBE Global Learning and Observations to Benefit the Environment (GLOBE) is a worldwide network of students, teachers, and scientists working together to study and understand the global environment. Students and teachers from over 9500 schools in more than 90 countries are working with research scientists to learn more about our planet. The web site also includes a teachers guide. Web site: http://www.globe.gov/ Go for Green Go for Green is a national non-profit, charitable organization encouraging Canadians to pursue healthy, outdoor physical activities while being good environmental citizens. Since 1992, they have worked in close partnership with health, environment, transportation, recreation and community organizations across the country; progressive Canadian corporations; and governments at all levels. During this time, we have supported more than 1,200 initiatives to enhance personal and environmental health.
Contact: Green Learning Greenlearning.ca is an innovative education project of the Pembina Institute. It is a premier online learning community inspired and designed by teachers to meet their curriculum needs. Greenlearning.ca helps prepare students for the challenges of tomorrow's world. Green Teacher Green Teacher is a magazine by and for educators to enhance environmental and global education across the curriculum at all grade levels. With fifty pages of ideas and activities, four times a year; we're not slick... just resource-full. Each issue contains:
Contact: Harmony Foundation The Harmony Foundation is a charitable organization recognized nationally and internationally for its leadership in multisectoral cooperation and creating innovative training programs and educational materials for educators, youth, the workplace and communities. Web site: http://www.islandnet.com/~harmony/ Inside Education Inside Education is a private, non-profit education organization established in 1985 to promote, co-ordinate and support bias-balanced environmental education across Alberta. Inside Education endeavours to empower teachers and students with current, relevant information on environmental issues and the best means through which these issues may be addressed in the classroom. Web site: http://www.insideeducation.ca/ Interactive Arctic Environmental Atlas A new interactive Arctic Environmental Atlas has been developed by UNEP/GRID-Arendal in Norway, a United Nations Environment Programme information centre. Environmental information on the Arctic region is presented in the interactive map on the Internet. Any standard web browser can be used to browse and examine the situation in the Arctic Environment. The themes in this map primarily concentrate on issues like biodiversity and conservation,where the Arctic has a special status, with vast expanses of still untouched nature, important fish stocks and large seabird colonies. Other environmental problems that the map touches upon are ecological footprint, land based pollution and climate change. The major sources used are some of the best global publicly available collections of data and maps that have been collected and projected to show a polar view, and implemented in this interactive map service.
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Visit the atlas at http://maps.grida.no/arctic/ International Petroleum Industry Environmental Conservation Association Publications prepared by the IPIECA, including a glossary that defines and explains many of the terms, such as Additionality, Joint Implementation and Supplementarity, commonly used at the climate change negotiations and other meetings. Also available on this website is a summary of IPIECA activities on climate change and highlights efforts of IPIECA oil and gas member companies, illustrated by select representative case studies and related industry-led partnership projects. Web site: http://www.ipieca.org/activities/climate_change/climate_publications.php Learning for a Sustainable Future Learning for a Sustainable Future is a Canadian nonprofit organization whose mandate is to work with educators from across Canada to integrate the concepts and principles of sustainable development into the curricula at all grade levels.
Contact: Metro Vancouver -- Temperature Rising Find information, visuals, critical thinking activities and questions to debate -- all related to climate change. Get ideas on how to tackle this complex topic -- even if you are new to it. There are sections for teachers and students, as well as a lot of other cool links. My Community, Our Earth The My Community, Our Earth Project: Geographic Learning for Sustainable Development (MyCOE) project is a partnership to encourage youth to use geographic tools and concepts to address local issues of sustainability. By participating in MyCOE, young people from around the world can examine and learn more about environmental issues, determine patterns and trends, and propose solutions to the challenges they study. Website: http://www.geography.org/sustainable/ New Scientist This British magazine has a comprehensive section on climate change. Articles range from a focus on the arctic to a focus on the tropics, the basic science of climate change and the political issues and decisions surrounding it. Connect to the web site at: http://www.newscientist.com/global/ Northern Climate Change Links Run by the Arctic Borderlands Ecological Knowledge Co-op, this site has good links to climate change information with a Yukon and northern Canada focus. Found here are Yukon climate change fact sheets, an interactive model of the Porcupine caribou herd responding to climate change, information on local research, and more! Web site: http://www.taiga.net/top/climatechange.html PALEOMAP Project -- Earth's Climate History This website contains many maps showing what the climate was like on Earth millions of years in the past. There is also an animated map showing the drifting continents and changing climatic conditions since Earth was formed. Plantwatch -- phenology of flowering plants in Canada PlantWatch is part of a national NatureWatch series of volunteer monitoring programs designed to help identify ecological changes that may be affecting our environment. A joint venture between the Canadian Nature Federation and Environment Canada's Ecological Monitoring and Assessment Network Coordinating Office (EMANCO), PlantWatch partners include representatives from each province and territory. The goal is to encourage Canadians of all ages to get involved in helping scientists discover how, and more importantly why, our natural environment is changing.
Project Atmosphere Canada -- Teacher's Guide Project Atmosphere Canada is a collaborative initiative of Environment Canada and the Canadian Meteorological and Oceanographic Society to foster the teaching of atmospheric sciences and related topics in Canada across grades K-12. http://www.msc.ec.gc.ca/education/index_e.cfm Re-Energy.ca - Teacher Resources Teachers have an important role in shaping the next generation of decision makers. The Pembina Institute has created new education resources to help support this role. We've made these resources easy to find on our new teacher materials page. Teachers can access a renewable energy unit plan, specific lesson plans, a sustainable transportation backgrounder and lesson plan, and solar car and solar oven posters. Also unique to this education resource is the new curriculum correlations that will assist teachers in aligning renewable energy with their science curriculum requirements. The materials provide teachers with everything they need to teach about renewable energy in the classroom. The lesson plans also incorporate the renewable energy models. SEEDS Foundation (Society Environment & Energy Development Studies) The SEEDS Foundation vision is that: "Canadians will be literate and responsible with respect to energy, sustainability and the environment." Their mandate is to support Canadian educators in promoting student literacy and active personal and societal responsibility for energy, sustainability and the environment. Find out more at: http://www.seedsfoundation.ca/
Contact: Tree Canada Foundation The Tree Canada Foundation provides education, technical assistance, resources and financial support through working partnerships to encourage Canadians to plant and care for trees in our urban and rural environment in an effort to help reduce the harmful effects of carbon dioxide emissions.
Contact: Union québécoise pour la conservation de la nature Organisme sans but lucratif fondé en 1981, l'Union québécoise pour la conservation de la nature est la plus importante coalition d'individus et d'associations locales oeuvrant à la protection de l'environnement au Québec. Son action est fondée sur trois objectifs de la Stratégie mondiale de la conservation:
U.S. Environmental Protection Agency -- Education Resources Students, educators and school administrators can all play a key role in reducing greenhouse gas emissions. Here is a directory of some education and action planning resources to help you. Website: http://www.epa.gov/climatechange/wycd/school.html U.S. Environmental Protection Agency -- Global Warming Kids Site This site from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has a wealth of information, activities and resources for students and teachers alike! World Wildlife Fund (WWF) Schools for a Living Planet WWF-Canada is thrilled to announce the official launch of Schools for a Living Planet, an educational program that provides educators with access to over 30 curriculum-linked, printable in-class activities for grades 3 to 8. Each grade's unit has a unique environmental theme with material carefully designed to meet curriculum expectations in English, Social Studies and Science. Our Schools for a Living Planet program can help you give your students the knowledge they need to make a difference in our planet's future. And it's easy to use -- download what you want, when you want, the choice is yours! Sign up for Schools for a Living Planet today and bring the power of the environment into your classroom. Yahoo News -- Global Warming This web site contains up-to-date articles of interest with respect to climate change and links to related web sites. http://news.yahoo.com/fc/Science/Climate_Change/ 
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