Career and Technology Foundations Grades 5-9

The Energy Dialogues interactive site allows students to view a series of videos that explore topics such as wind energy and hydraulic fracturing. Guiding questions that encourage critical thinking and analysis of current environmental and natural resource issues.

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.

In this fun video series, hosts Zoe and Eric 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, how we get it out of the ground and how some of the challenges of extraction are being met. A teacher's guide and a list of curriculum outcomes accompany these videos.

The Energy Education Tool Kit includes tools, activities and lessons adapted from Inside Education’s energy programs to create an immersive energy education experience for your students. This kit is split into 8 topics, each exploring a different aspect of energy in Alberta.

This digital poster education kit examines Canada’s most common sources of electricity as well as its generation, transmission, and distribution. The accompanying teacher’s guide contains activities and helpful background information.

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.

A podcast episode that brought together traditional elders, mining executives and union officials to discuss mining in Australia.

For the first time, Inside Education’s natural resource education turns its attention to mining in Alberta. 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!

Practical guidance for governments, companies, NGOs, indigenous peoples and local communities in relation to land acquisition

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.

The Tools of the Trade Mining Education Kit is a great way to dig deeper into a topic that is shaping the Alberta landscape above and below ground! Use the 12 items in the kit to supplement units or inquiries that explore mining, reclamation, ecosystems, careers, and technology.

Find lesson plans, science projects, and other activities for the classroom or at home to excite K-12 students about clean energy!

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.

Learn about the properties of materials and the challenges of cleaning up an oil spill in this activity.