Students at All Saints All Grade School in Newfoundland are working to address food sustainability in their community through the installation of hydroponics systems.
Students at École Abbey-Landry in New Brunswick are installing a cold room to store their crops from their greenhouses to improve sustainable access to local food year round.
Students at the Individual Learning Centre in the Yukon are building and implementing a hydroponics system to grow crops to support their school community.
Grade 5 students at NJ Macpherson School in the Northwest Territories are installing solar panels to renewably power the lights in their outdoor learning buildings.
Shop students at Riverview High School in New Brunswick are building an energy efficient and net-zero mini home to be used to address the housing shortage in their community.
Students at Robert Service School in the Yukon are learning about net-zero and climate resilient building solutions and how to apply them to projects in their communities.
Students at Robert Thirsk School are implementing a rooftop wind and solar array and a weather station system to track local climate trends, and they started a hydroponics initiative to address food sustainability.
Students at Sussex Middle School are building a greenhouse to provide food for the breakfast club. While waiting for the greenhouse materials to arrive at their rural community, they implemented a composting program!
Grade 7 & 8 students at Truro Middle School in Nova Scotia are addressing food sustainability in their school and community by expanding their aeroponics system.
Grade 8 students at Two Hills School in Alberta are tackling emissions and budget efficiency issues by retrofitting the lighting fixtures of 8 classrooms.
A group of students at Eden High School in Ontario are using their passion for plants to retrofit their school’s old greenhouse and begin growing crops to feed their community.
Students in the climate action club at Harbour View High School in New Brunswick are installing solar panels on their school’s roof to provide renewable energy and power savings.
Cultivating sustainability and student-led learning on Alert Bay’s windswept shores with a greenhouse project that’s enriching science, food security, and Indigenous traditions.
Our lessons are based on the science and solutions of Project Drawdown. Project Drawdown is a nonprofit organization that seeks to help the world stop climate change — as quickly, safely, and equitably as possible. They already have a world-renowned Climate Solutions Library of measurable practices and technologies that will reduce emissions.
Our lessons bring these solutions into the context of Canadian classrooms. We partnered with 25+ teachers all across Canada to create lesson plans on each of the Project Drawdown climate solutions. Our goal is for these lessons to enhance climate education with relevant solutions and ambitious targets that students can understand and enact.
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Using Our Lessons
Connecting Our Lessons to Your Curriculum
There is still a long way to go to fully incorporate climate education into curricula. Our lessons mobilize current Canadian curricula to discuss climate change. And we don’t stop at the doom and gloom. We are finding spaces in all subjects for students to explore climate action and take steps towards a sustainable future, with our lessons on emissions reduction and climate solutions. Search our library by subject, grade and region to find Solution Lessons relevant for your learners.
Introducing Our Lessons
We recommend introducing students to key climate concepts before implementing our Solutions Lessons. Use our introductory presentation or our Introductory Lessons to familiarize your students with emissions reduction and Canada’s net-zero policies.
Accessing Our Lessons
All lessons are available for download with our free online membership. Each lesson includes resources (digital and/or printable) to be used during delivery as well as detailed instructions on how you can implement the activities in your own class. We distribute all resources via Google Suites so you have your own copy to adapt and manipulate.
