Preparing for Flood Resilience
Learners will learn what municipalities and authorities are doing to make their cities more resilient to flooding, while understanding the importance of flood risk management for their schools.
Puzzling Over Energy Issues
Learners explore social issues and select one from the wide range of energy and environmental topics currently in the media. They research their chosen issue to generate ten to fifteen keywords and clues, which they then use to create a crossword puzzle online. Through this process, learners gain new vocabulary and explore unfamiliar concepts.
Ride, Roll and Stroll
Learners brainstorm creative ways to get to school, dance lessons, hockey practice or a friend’s place. After analyzing the pros and cons of their wild rides, learners consider the more usual modes of transportation available to them and assess the environmental impacts of each. Empowered with new knowledge, learners revise their initial designs and embellish them with selling points so that they can attract others to their mode of transportation via video, poster or audio advertisement.
Runoff Footprint
This activity shows learners how to determine whether a study area is permeable, semi-permeable, or non-permeable. Understanding this allows learners to estimate how much rain is soaking into the ground and how much is running off into sewers, drains, and ditches. This is called a Runoff Footprint.
Science Slam
Learners investigate and explain a sustainability measure of their choice, presenting their findings orally in a creative and engaging manner.
Small Appliance Energy Reliance
Learners will investigate the energy usage of regular, every day small appliances.
Speak for the Trees
Learners will investigate energy use and relate it to the amount of trees absorbing CO2.
Start Me Up!
Learners will investigate the energy usage of laptops within their school.
Sustainability Guide
GreenLearning's Sustainability Guide is a holistic and comprehensive package for educators looking for ways in which they can implement sustainability actions in their schools and/or other non-traditional learning communities. It comes with a Planner Guide that allows educators, together with their learners, to develop their own sustainability plan for their school and/or community.
Take Action: Adopt a Drain Campaign
Learners will create a campaign to raise awareness about litter pollution around drains and storm sewers. They will also clean their adopted drain and assess the campaigns outcome.