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The TIGed Activities Database is a resource by teachers, for teachers. Using the database, you can find new methods to infuse TakingITGlobal into your teaching in ways that meet your local curriculum standards. TIG staff, partners, and educators from around the world have developed our activities and lesson plans and you can contribute too!
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Title Year Description Rating
Curriculum Link Graph our Litter Intermediate / Middle

Students examine their schoolyard for litter and graph its spread. Using TIGed Collaborations, your students can share their results with...

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Curriculum Link The Energy Trail Intermediate / Middle, Secondary

This lesson helps students discover the links between consumer products, manufacturing and energy use, the burning of fossil fuels and the...

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Curriculum Link The GREENS Activity Guide Intermediate / Middle

A teacher’s or parent’s guide that offers six activities that focus on “cutting down on trash”, “recycling and...

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Curriculum Link The Transformation of Waste to Compost Primary / Elementary, Intermediate / Middle Throughout these activities, students will learn about the global production of food and the importance of buying local food. Through experiential... 2
Curriculum Link Vermicomposting Intermediate / Middle, Secondary

This unit is composed of 5 lessons that aim to teach students the process of vermicomposting in order to practice and encourage the recycling...

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Curriculum Link Zero Footprint Youth Calculator Intermediate / Middle

This resource allows students to calculate their carbon footprints by looking at transportation, food, energy use, home and school and waste.

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Curriculum Link Action Tips: Eco-Education Intermediate / Middle, Secondary

This link provides students with basic ideas and facts on how to make their schools 'green'. It even helps students develop and submit...

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Curriculum Link Action Tips: Encourage Friends and Familly to Recycle Efficently Intermediate / Middle, Secondary

This link gives students ways in which they can help teach their families and friends to recycle more effectively. It provides a number of...

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Curriculum Link United Nations and Climate Change Intermediate / Middle, Secondary

Link to the United Nations Convention on Climate Change website. which outlines the UN's current poisition on issues...

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Curriculum Link Reusable Bags Intermediate / Middle

This project will have you and your action team designing grocery bags from old materials from home to make funky & fun grocery bags!...

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Curriculum Link Building a Vermicomposter Primary / Elementary, Intermediate / Middle

This project will have you and your action team becoming master builders of a novel, garbage-guzzling machine that eats, breathes, and...

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Curriculum Link Quest for Clean Shorelines Primary / Elementary, Intermediate / Middle

This project will have you and your action team doing your part to help remove garbage from a local body of water. By removing litter from...

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Curriculum Link Simon Says Primary / Elementary

This lessons is introduced with a poem that speaks about the need to take action against all of the harm we have done to ourselves and the...

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Curriculum Link Coal and Sustainability Secondary

The final module in a series created by Canadian Coal Association on coal education. This module discusses economic, environmental and social...

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Curriculum Link Carbon Footprint and Climate Change Intermediate / Middle

This video promotes recycling by showing the timely decomposition of a pop can.

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Curriculum Link Eco Elves’ Assistants Intermediate / Middle

This lesson engages students in saving the Eco-Elves from Destruction in order to restore ecological order. Students will realize what energy...

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Curriculum Link Ecological Footprints Intermediate / Middle

Students will understand the ecological footprint concept and the difference between consumption and waste and begin to articulate the...

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Curriculum Link The Story of Bottled Water Intermediate / Middle, Secondary

This film explores the bottled water industrys attacks on tap water and its use of seductive, environmental-themed advertising to cover...

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Curriculum Link Whale's Stomach Primary / Elementary, Intermediate / Middle Students learn about the impact of our “throwaway society” by exploring all the different kinds of trash found in a whale’s stomach. 0
Curriculum Link The Story of Electronics Intermediate / Middle, Secondary

The Story of Electronics explores the collateral damage which high-tech electronics have caused to our environment and society —25 million...

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Curriculum Link The Story of Stuff Primary / Elementary, Intermediate / Middle, Secondary

The Story of Stuff is a 20-minute, fast-paced, fact-filled look at the underside of our production and consumption patterns. The Story of...

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Curriculum Link South African Youth Speak Out On Climate Change Secondary

This podcast comes from South Africa, where young people in Cape Town, aged 15-18, speak out about the importance of reducing one’s climate...

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Curriculum Link Climate Change is Real Intermediate / Middle

An animated video that highlights effects that human activity has on climate change. Common activities that emit carbon dioxide are...

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Curriculum Link Creating Biodiesel & Mitigating Waste Secondary

This exercise introduces students to the concept of alternative fuels, and gives them an opportunity to produce their own biodiesel fuel using...

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Curriculum Link Coal and the Environment Secondary

The forth module of a 5 module series created by the Canadian Coal Association on coal education. This module discusses clean coal production,...

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Curriculum Link Recycle for Education Contest Intermediate / Middle, Secondary

Staples Canada Recycle For Education program is giving away 20 computer...

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Curriculum Link Teaching About Climate Change: Cool Schools Tackle Global Warming Primary / Elementary, Intermediate / Middle, Secondary

Helping teachers and students to tackle the challenging topic of climate change, this anthology from Green Teacher offers a framework for...

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Curriculum Link What you can do at School Intermediate / Middle, Secondary

The US Environmental Protection Agency offers a number of resources for "What You Can Do at School". The attachment outlines the top...

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Curriculum Link Burning in the Streets Secondary

This 7-minute piece looks at a group of students from Manhattan Comprehensive Night and Day High School who worked with Solar One’s...

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Curriculum Link Green Kitty Intermediate / Middle

A video that talks about actions that youth can take to lead a more environmentally friendly lifestyle. This episode focuses on daily...

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