Science 3: Protecting Ecosystems

This article has 4 easy ideas for helping to conserve energy and resources - and help our Earth.

CBC Kids has a list of 14 ways you can help the environment. Whether you walk to school or help to clean up litter in your neighbourhood, you can take care of our world and treat every day as Earth Day.

Energy Kids features more than 100 pages of fun educational content for kids, parents, and teachers

You can help save Endangered Animals with these top tips from African conservationists Wild Wonderful World.

A brand new young Cree superhero stars in Messages From Mother Earth, an 8-part video series for elementary school kids created in consultation and collaboration with Indigenous artists, elders and culture keepers.

National Geographic has some tips for kids and families that want to conserve resources and help protect the planet.

Engineer Topher White shares a simple, scalable way to stop this brutal deforestation — that starts with your old cell phone.

Your students will have a hands-on experience reducing waste by focusing on waste generated in the classroom with these activities

Efficiency means getting more for less. If we are efficient with energy, we can enjoy the same levels of comfort or more, while using less!

When wolves were reintroduced to Yellowstone National Park, the most remarkable trophic cascade occurred.

This video from Nature: Leave it to Beavers highlights scientists' discoveries of the dramatic impact of beavers on two different ecosystems: one in Canada, the other in the United States.

This video explores the ways we can help protect the earth’s resources by adopting the 4 R’s—refuse, reduce, reuse, and recycle.

Your goal is to sort all of the materials as they move down the conveyor belt. Send the recyclables on their way to becoming something new and valuable.

Help clean up the park. You'll need to sort the garbage and recycle.

Humans make a lot of garbage every day, and a lot of it ends up in big, smelly dumps. Luckily, there are things we can do to reuse a lot of our garbage and keep the Earth healthy and clean!

Jessi teaches Squeaks all about recycling, and together, they recycle his old crayons to make cool new ones!

This educational video answers student's questions like what is recycling, why should I recycle, what are the benefits of recycling, what can be recycled, what are the 3 R's (reduce, reuse, recycle)?

Rachel Carson investigated into the misuse of chemicals in nature and published her findings in “Silent Spring,” which drew a lot of attention to the problem

Explore the possibilities and challenges of what a vegetarian world could look like if we all immediately stopped eating meat. Related Lesson

What happens when you toss something in the trash? This article explores how long certain things will be sticking around after they’ve been thrown out. The article also has some tips for reducing waste.

Take a look at this infographic from the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations to see how much food is wasted every year and what we can do to address this issue.

A brand new young Cree superhero stars in Messages From Mother Earth, an 8-part video series for elementary school kids created in consultation and collaboration with Indigenous artists, elders and culture keepers.

This 3 1/2 minute video describes how farmers can use animal poop as energy for their farm. How does the anaerobic digester work to create energy and fertilizer? How can we use human waste as well?

The Story of Bottled Water describes the environmental and financial impact of using bottled water instead of tap water.

Learn how things are made and the hidden costs that you don't see when you buy stuff.

Elizabeth explains why you don't need to be afraid of picking up your grocery store’s funky-looking fruit. Related Lesson

We’ve all been told that we should recycle plastic bottles and containers. But what happens to the plastic if we just throw it away? Related Lesson

Each day, the animal kingdom produces a LOT of poop! You can thank the humble dung beetle for cleaning up the world by eating a lot of it! Related Lesson

This is an interactive game from the City of Edmonton. Try this waste sorting game - sort the materials correctly and win fun items to build your own digital park!

Explore how human activity is permanently changing the Earth’s natural systems

This lesson plan is tied into the French Supermarket Intermarche's Inglorious Fruit and Vegetables campaign, to help combat food waste.

This site from NASA is filled with content about our Earth. There are interactive games, videos, articles and teaching resources.

The PlantWatch program enables citizen scientists to get involved by recording flowering times for selected plant species and reporting these dates to researchers, who work to identify ecological changes that may be affecting our environment.