Students will view a series of videos that explore topics such as wind energy and hydraulic fracturing. Guiding questions that encourage critical thinking are included.
Your hosts unlock the mystery of how petroleum was formed, how we find it, how we get it out of the ground and what we do with it once we get it. A list of curriculum outcomes accompanies the videos.
This video examines renewable energy and some of the challenges of exchanging our fossil fuel dependence for only renewable energy sources. Related Lesson
Take your students on field trips to the oil sands operations in Northern Alberta. Your students will learn what oil sand is, why it is important, and how it is extracted.
The Energy Education Tool Kit includes tools, activities and lessons adapted to create an immersive education experience for your students. This kit is split into 8 topics, each exploring a different aspect of energy in Alberta.
This digital poster kit examines Canada’s most common sources of electricity and generation, transmission, and distribution. The teacher’s guide contains activities
Canada has more mine tailings spills than most other countries in the world, according to a report from the United Nations Environment Programme. Learn more here!
Free, Prior and Informed Consent (FPIC) is a specific right that pertains to indigenous peoples and is recognized in the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples (UNDRIP). FPIC allows indigenous peoples to give or withhold consent to any project that may affect them or their territories.
This FPIC Manual is designed as a tool for project managers. It provides information about the right to FPIC and how it can be implemented in six steps.
This four-part poster series examines Alberta’s mining industry, the extraction process, natural resources hidden deep underground, the environmental and societal impacts, careers and more!
A lesson plan from BCTF focused on the rock cycle and how materials from the earth are used as resources to build homes, roads and other things in our communities. Click the download button to get the lesson plan.
A great way to dig deeper into a topic that is shaping the Alberta landscape. Use the 12 items to supplement units or inquiries that explore mining, reclamation, ecosystems, careers, and technology.
This unit covers the Understanding Earth and Space Systems strand of the Grade 4 Ontario Science and Technology Curriculum, Rocks and Minerals, through the use of culturally representative Indigenous (Aboriginal) learning materials and stories.
After matching everyday products to their rock or mineral sources, students “mine” chocolate chip cookies to discover the impacts of many mining operations.
A short overview by Manitoba Education on Indigenous knowledge and perspectives on the environment and sustainable development. Indigenous sustainability concepts are clearly defined.
