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Explore and download unique tools, innovative resources and relevant videos to enhance teaching and learning in your classroom.

Download or request maps, posters, DVD’s, knowledge builders and activities.

* - Materials available through workshop participation only.

Sustainability and Ecological Health

	Get Outdoors - An Educator’s Guide to Outdoor Classrooms in Parks, School grounds and other Special Places
	Agriculture - Food for Thought - Video clips and corresponding classroom activities for exploring agriculture and sustainability in the classroom.
	Operation Web - teaches students about biodiversity through experiential learning and development of critical thinking skills.

Garbage and The 4R's

Activities:
	Art Re-Use Centre
	Tin Cans - Big Books
	Milk Jugs - Big Books
DVDs:
	*The Sustainable Region TV - Water, Wastewater, Solid Waste (Compilation DVD)
Maps:
	Solid Waste Management Facilities
Posters:
	Ways to Get Garbage out of your life
	ReThink to reduce waste everyday!
Teacher Resource Guides:
	No Time to Waste (Elementary) *
	*No Time to Waste (Elementary)

Links
Knowledge Builders... Garbage & Recycling Materials for the Arts Readymade Recycling Council of British Columbia

Regional Growth

DVDs:
	*Lanes, Trains, Automobiles (Video)
	*Vancouver & Fraser Valley (Ortho-photos on CD-Rom)
Knowledge Builders:
	Livable Region Strategic Plan
	Taking Care of Our Region Everyday
	Think, Shift, Move
Teacher Resource Guides:
	*Shaping a Livable Region (Teacher Resource Guide - Secondary)
	*Shaping a Livable Region (Teacher Resource Guide - Secondary)

Links
Knowledge Builders... Air Quality Canadian Institute of Planners Planetizen Planning Institute of BC Project for Public Spaces Metropolis Magazine Smart City Radio Smart Growth BC BC Agriculture in the Classroom

Air quality and climate change

Activities:
	Breathaking Discoveries
	Clean Air: Yours, Mine, Ours
	Climate Change, Air Quality and You: Issues for B.C.
	Human Activity and Air Quality
	Less is More
Knowledge Builders:
	Air Quality Health Index
	Frequently Asked Questions on Climate Change
Teacher Resource Guides:
	Let's clear the Air (Elementary)
	Let's clear the Air (Elementary)
	What's all the fuss? (Intermediate & Secondary)

Links

Water

DVDs:
	The Sustainabile Region TV - Water, Wastewater, Solid Waste (Compilation DVD)
Knowledge Builders:
	Water: A Community Resource
	Use Water Wisely
	Better Sollutions
	What happens when I flush? (Brochure)
Maps:
	Regional Sewer System
Posters:
	What's going down the drain
	What Happens when I Flush? (Poster)
	Waterworks Wonder
Teacher Resource Guides:
	Source to Sea (Elementary)
	Get Tapped In (Secondary)

Links
Teacher's site... Project Wet Knowledge Builders... Water Wastewater (Sewerage) BC Water and Waste Association Fraser Basin Council/BC Rivers Georgia Strait Alliance Recipes for Alternative Cleaners Soap and Detergent Association Wash Right

Resources

Put your students on the map!
The Metro Vancouver Satellite Poster supports students to explore the place they live and discover how they are connected to local sustainability topics!

How to get a Satellite Map

Buy one for $15.00 - visit the Metro Vancouver Information Centre
4330 Kingsway, Burnaby B.C -Hours: 8:00 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. or
Order by phone: 604-432-6200
(*PLEASE NOTE! Teachers participating in a Metro Vancouver K-12 Teacher Workshop or registering their class for a K-12 School Fieldtrip receive one complimentary poster.)

To request resources contact an Education Coordinator:

604-432-6200
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Fast Facts

Why sustainability education in your classroom and school community? View the new Environmental Learning and Experience: An interdisciplinary guide for teachers (BC Ministry of Education, November 2007) VIEW

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