PLANT A NOTION "Going green" doesn't have to be a daunting task that means sweeping life changes. Simple things can make a difference.
http://www.greenerchoices.org/products.cfm?product=ac
http://www.environment.ucla.edu/reportcard/article.asp?parentid=1700
http://www.partsgeek.com/mmparts/auto_resources_air_pollution.html
This website is a very interactive website that you could share with your students. It gives parents and teachers different activities to use, lesson plans, worksheets, and more. This website involves activities about animals in different subject areas. It gives many activities that you as a teacher or parents could do with your students or children. It is fun, interactive, and covers many subject areas.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/laac/menu.shtml
The Saskatchewan Boreal Forest Learning Centre (BFLC) is a non-profit organization that works primarily with school children, both in classrooms and in the forest. Our objectives are to provide opportunities that encourage deeper awareness and love of the boreal forest, leading to an increased sense of respect, responsibility and inter-connectedness with the land, the creatures and the people who live there. Our work with First Nations Elders, Traditional Land Users, and Educators helps to broaden this perspective of inter-connectedness.
Information, activities and ideas for helping the environment directed at both kids and teenagers; lesson plans, curriculum fit information and information for becoming trained in Project Wild and Below Zero resources for teachers. The site is also currently being updated to include information directed at parents and a "Study Centre".
This is the third in a series of CEGN briefing papers providing an overview of key Canadian environmental issues, intended to provide background information on the issue and serve as a starting point for discussion on strategic approaches and collaboration on environmental grantmaking.
http://www.cegn.org/english/home/documents/EEBrief_Eng.pdf
This website offers students, parents, and teachers education on how we can conserve habitats into the future. This can be done through Project Webfoot, DUC’s wetland education program. Through Project Webfoot, DUC offers many different wetland and environmental education choices and resources.
http://www.ducks.ca/resource/teachers/index.html
http://www.ecofriendlysask.ca/
http://www.facebook.com/ecofriendlysk?sk=wall
EcoKids for teachers is a website that offers a wide array of free environmental education resources, including: environmental education lesson plans, printable handouts and activity sheets, a literacy corner with environmental books and corresponding teaching tools.
http://www.ecokids.ca/pub/index.cfm
EcoMentors has a number of useful resources that make getting involved with Earth Day Canada Program easy and help provide a rich and rewarding experience for youth, educators and youth service providers.
Wascana Marsh is a unique wetland in the heart of Regina, Saskatchewan, which has a lot to offer outdoor education. Friends of Wascana Marsh strive to preserve and enhance the biodiversity of the marsh habitat and provide outdoor nature-based educational interpretive opportunities to promote ecotourism and environmental sustainability within an urban setting.
http://www.plu.edu/sustainability/How-can-I-be-involved/Great-Ways-to-go-Green-at-PLU/home.php
Exploring Nature with Young Children
http://www.projectwild.org/growingupwild.htm
http://www.cheapcarinsurance.net/how-to-go-green-with-your-vehicle/
Learning for a Sustainable Environment is a project created by the UNESCO-Asia Pacific Centre of Education, providing a variety of workshops for teachers on education for sustainability. There are several different modules: including story telling for the environment, community problem solving, and a workshop on values education.
http://www.ens.gu.edu.au/ciree/LSE/MAIN.HTM
http://www.leavenotrace.ca/home
http://www.monarchteachernetwork-westerncanada.com/
http://www.mountainlakesorganic.com/OrganicLinks.html
This website provides a central location for information about the Society's activities, meetings, and interests. Members of the society are interested in a variety of topics. Natural History is a subject that involves many aspects of our outdoor environment, including plants, animals, landforms, climate, and cultural history. The society also organizes field trips in and around Regina. These trips are usually held on the weekend, and are led by society members. There is no cost, although carpooling is recommended and it is polite to offer to share gas costs. Most field trips leave from the parking lot of the Royal Saskatchewan Museum.
http://nonprofits.accesscomm.ca/rnhs/field.html
Nature Saskatchewan promotes the appreciation and understanding of our natural environment through education, conservation and research. Founded in 1949, Nature Saskatchewan has been observing, documenting and protecting the province's biological diversity for nearly 60 years. Nature Saskatchewan provides the cultural link by which people are inspired, gain knowledge of and ultimately enjoy and protect the natural world around them. This website provides a variety of resources for educators under the education and monitoring tab at the top of the webpage.
We like to think that the materials we use to create our products are turning over a new leaf. Most of the paper, fabrics, furniture, etc. are post-consumer materials: chairs we've discovered in thrift shops, parts of greeting cards we've received, stationary my grandpa found at a garage sale. It's important to us that what we create doesn't require a whole lot of newly manufactured parts. There's personality, and surely a few stories, attached to our materials. We make our goods in anticipation of bringing beauty into your life and allowing those stories to continue!
http://newleafhandmade.weebly.com
The mission of the Partners for the Sask River Basin are to promote watershed sustainability through awareness, linkages, and stewardship. Stories, studies, and conferences are offered through this website to help educate people about how to promote stewardship and sustainability of the Saskatchewan River Basin.
http://www.paddlingcanada.com/
Recycle Saskatchewan has updated lesson plans for Grades K- 8 that are specifically linked to Learning Outcomes in the 2011 Saskatchewan School Curriculum. www.RecyleSaskatchewan.ca (click on the "For Teachers" tab).
Car sharing is new to Regina but has been in larger Canadian cities since the 1990s. It saves money, reduces parking and traffic congestion, and helps reduce pollution. Celebrate Earth Day by attending an informational presentation by a representative from Regina Car Share Co-operative
Register by calling 550-7223.
Resources 4 Rethinking is a project developed by Learning for a Sustainable Future. It provides teachers access to lesson plans, worksheets and other teaching resources that integrate environmental, social and economic spheres through learning that is interdisciplinary and action oriented. Each R4R resource has been reviewed by an experienced classroom teacher and matched to relevant curriculum outcomes for all provinces and territories. Search over 700 resources by grade, subject, jurisdiction, and sustainability theme.
http://www.royalsaskmuseum.ca/
http://www.sasksciencecentre.com/
http://www.environmentalsociety.ca/
http://www.saskwastereduction.ca/
The Saskatchewan Wildlife Federation delivers a number of conservation and eduation programs. Education and activities are provided for a variety of conservation programs including: fisheries, habitat trust, operation respect, and wildlife tomorrow. As well the website has examples of education programs with information and pictures and benefits of the program. Some examples of education programs listed on SWF include BigFoot Snowshoeing, conservation camp, and geocaching just to name a few.
http://www.swf.sk.ca/7Programs/programs.html
This is a compilation of resources that are available in southwestern Saskatchewan: programs, sources, and information about sustainable living in our community, resources specific to this part of the province.
This website has all the videos from the Story of Stuff Project. The videos are; Story of Stuff, Story of the Bottle Water, Story of Cosmetics, etc. It has many videos on this site that are motivating and they just get to the point of everything. This site has many different videos, songs, and comments about the environmental issues occurring and why it is happening. It is extremely beneficial.
http://www.youtube.com/user/storyofstuffproject
This website gives you many opportunities and ideas about how you can take action. It gives you an opportunity to take action by doing simple things like turning down your thermostat for a day, to big things such as volunteering at the World Wide Fund for Nature. This is convenient since we are doing a project that is asking us to take action. It gives wonderful ideas and there are other links that explain what it is, events, and even one for teachers. You can download and get free access to curriculum-linked, printable in-class activities for grades 3 to 8. This would be a great resource for future educators.
The YES (Youth Engaged in Sustainability) Network is a network of teachers, schools, students and community organizations working together to support youth led sustainability action projects in the community. It includes several Regina High schools that have done some wonderful projects since its inception.
http://reginayesnetwork.wordpress.com/
http://www.meetthegreens.org/
http://www.ecokids.ca/pub/index.cfm
http://www.biology4kids.com/
http://www.earthrangers.com/
http://www.nrdc.org/greensquad/intro/intro_1.asp
http://www.dnr.state.wi.us/org/caer/ce/eek/index.htm