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Climate Change: Creating Solutions for Our Future: Kit

This kit is a curriculum-linked climate change unit that will help teachers improve their students' awareness and understanding of climate change. It is composed of 6 lessons on these topics: history of climate change, the impacts of climate change, and human interactions. Each has a number of activities with teacher guides and copy sheets for student materials.
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Focus On Composting

Composting is a managed process that speeds up the natural decomposition of organic material. The end product of composting is a humus-like material called compost! This paper answers questions like: Why should I compost? How does composting work? How do I compost?

10 Pages
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Focus On Acid Deposition

Acid deposition occurs when acid-forming pollutants in the air are deposited on the earth’s surface. The main acid-forming pollutants are sulphur dioxide (SO2) and oxides of nitrogen (NOx).
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EnviroKids Celebrate the Environment: English

All the things around you make up your environment. In this book, you are going to learn through many activities about the different parts of the environment - land, air, water and waste.

21 Pages

Class sets available; please state how many copies you require. (Maximum 35 copies per class.)

Stream Connections: Poster

This poster illustrates a typical northern Alberta stream. The back of the poster describes the history, physical characteristics, biodiversity, human uses and issues associated with northern streams. There are also several activities.

Focus On: Factsheets

Short background articles on different environmental subjects. Look up each Focus On individually for PDF version.

Waste Watchers: Activity Book

This activity booklet was developed to introduce children to the 4Rs — Reduce, Reuse, Recycle and Recover. Waste Watchers educates students about waste minimization and hazardous waste. Do you think that you could be a waste watcher? With this resource you can be!
Class sets available; please state how many copies you require. (Maximum 35 copies per class.)

Saving the World Begins at Home: A Personal Guide to Managing Household Waste

The trucks rumble down the lanes of our cities and towns, carrying away the week’s garbage. The few bags set out don’t appear to be much, but more than 2.4 million tonnes of solid waste goes to Alberta’s municipal landfills every year. Municipalities are continuously challenged to make room for this tremendous amount of waste, some of it coming from commercial and construction activity, but much of it coming from our homes. This booklet will help you make better decisions about what you buy and how you dispose of it.

A hard copy of this publication can be ordered through the Alberta Environment Information Centre by phoning 780-427-2700.
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Published by: Alberta Environment

The Home We Share: Kit

This resource kit is an environmental education program that will help students learn what the environment is, and recognize their role in the "home we share" - our environment. The four themes of the kit are: What is the Home We Share? Change is All Around Us, Fur Feathers and Fins, and Look at ME in the Home We Share!

Kit contains:

The poster "The Home We Share" (2 copies), The Teacher's Guide, and a set of duplicating masters for the activities on the poster back.

Additional posters are available separately.

Up In The Air: Activity Book

This activity book is intended to introduce children, ages 6-9, to the air around them, what the atmosphere means to them, and what children and their families can do to reduce negative impacts on the atmosphere. 20 Pages Long. Class sets available; please state how many copies you require.

(Maximum 35 copies per class.)