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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 Short Book List for English Teachers Primary / Elementary, Intermediate / Middle, Secondary

This is a short annotated bibliography of books that could be used by English teachers to infuse environmental education into their lessons....

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Curriculum Link Critical Hope Teaching Manual Primary / Elementary, Intermediate / Middle, Secondary

 

The Critical Hope  teaching manual is a 94 page environmental education workshop package which includes almost 30 group or...

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Curriculum Link Build a Pizza Box Solar Oven Primary / Elementary, Intermediate / Middle, Secondary

This activity teaches students how to build their own solar oven out of a pizza box. This solar oven will get hot enough to warm up cookies...

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Curriculum Link Hydrogen and Fuel Cells Intermediate / Middle

A series of videos that discuss how fuel cells work and hydrogen fuel cell cars. Canadian focuses include features on BC transit and the...

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Curriculum Link Building the Basic PVC Wind Turbine Primary / Elementary, Intermediate / Middle, Secondary

This plan shows how to make a rugged and inexpensive classroom wind turbine that can be used for lab bench-based blade design experiments.

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Curriculum Link Sustaining My Community with Renewable Energy Primary / Elementary, Intermediate / Middle, Secondary

In this module students are tasked with exploring ways to provide their community with safe, renewable energy that will sustain their needs....

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Curriculum Link A Sunshade for the Polar Bear Primary / Elementary

This lesson plan gives children insight into the impact of climate change on other ecosystems and living beings using the polar bear as an...

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Curriculum Link Green Growth Event Secondary

On May 23rd, 2011 the Deputy Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (UK), Nick Clegg MP, delivered an important speech at Climate Change Capital...

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Curriculum Link Past Peak Oil Traveling Toward Transition Animation Intermediate / Middle, Secondary

This video shows Hubberts peak oil graph on transport animated. The video highlights a timeline of oil consumption and projected effects. It...

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Curriculum Link Save Your Energy Secondary

This is Student Reading 3 from "Climate Change: Connections & Solutions". Students will learn about the various energy sources...

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Curriculum Link Climate Change - Effects in Polar Regions Intermediate / Middle

A youth production on the effects of climate change in the polar regions. Images show the profound effects on polar ecosystems. Solutions that...

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Curriculum Link Wind Energy Experiment Intermediate / Middle, Secondary

This experiment shows students how wind energy can generate electricity. Specifically, it shows how wind propeller design affects the...

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Curriculum Link Case Study Summaries of Wind Energy Use in Saskatchewan Secondary

In this lesson, students will compare and contrast case studies already created for other wind farm locations in Canada available at the...

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Curriculum Link Cell Wall Recipe: A Lesson on Biofuels Primary / Elementary, Intermediate / Middle

In this activity, students will investigate how changes in the DNA sequence that codes for cell wall formation can have a favorable outcome in...

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Curriculum Link Climate Odyssey Intermediate / Middle

Engage students in climate change education through the use of comics. In this resource, Dr. Retocho introduces the Climatica Mission; a...

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Curriculum Link Energy Awareness Quiz Secondary

In this activity, students will identify their level of knowledge about energy issues and calculate the CO2 emissions caused by...

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Curriculum Link Solar Etching Tutorial Secondary

Getting creative using the power of the sun is what this tutorial is all about. Using a magnifying glass, one can etch many interesting...

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Curriculum Link Get Current: Switch on Clean Energy Activity Book Primary / Elementary, Intermediate / Middle, Secondary

Switching on clean energy technologies means strengthening the economy while protecting the environment. This activity book for all ages...

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Curriculum Link Wind Farm Atlas Scavenger Hunt Intermediate / Middle

In this lesson, students will complete an atlas activity to find and map the location of several existing and proposed wind power sites across...

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Curriculum Link Turbulence and How to Avoid it Secondary

Wind turbines work best when they are exposed to consistent winds moving with constant speed and direction. Turbulence (“swirling...

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Curriculum Link Cell Wall Chemistry of Biofuel Secondary

This module focuses on the production of sugar (glucose and maltose) from cornstarch. The first lesson from this module relates glucose...

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Curriculum Link Photovoltaics Intermediate / Middle, Secondary

This experiment introduces students to photovoltaic cells and demonstrates their efficiencies under varying conditions. Photovoltaics is a...

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Curriculum Link Solar Box Cooker Intermediate / Middle

In this activity, students build a solar box cooker from simple materials. The solar cooker represents a simple technology that is beginning...

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Curriculum Link Biofuel Intermediate / Middle, Secondary

A collection of videos that discuss the use of biomass to produce electricity, the production of ethanol, biogas facility explanations and...

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Curriculum Link Designing Wind Turbine Blades Intermediate / Middle, Secondary

A sustainable energy design challenge: working in teams, students design the shape,...

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Curriculum Link The Toronto Wind Turbine: Virtual Tour for Kids and Teacher Resource Primary / Elementary

Ringo the ring-billed gull takes students on a virtual tour of the Toronto Wind Turbine. Students learn about wind energy, how the turbine...

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Curriculum Link Change is in the air: climate change, clean air and sustainable energy moving from framework to action Intermediate / Middle, Secondary

Published by the city of Toronto, this document outlines phase 1 of the Climate Change, Clean Air and Sustainable Energy Action Plan,...

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Curriculum Link Wind Speed and Height: Why do Wind Turbines Have to be So Tall? Secondary

In this lesson, students will investigate the relationship between wind speed and height, through both experiments and quantitative analysis....

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Curriculum Link The Geographic Potential of Wind Energy in Canada Secondary

In this lesson, students will evaluate the potential of wind energy in terms of geographic location. Students will spend a lesson building a...

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Curriculum Link How to Build a Solar Whirlygig with Music Secondary

This video shows how to make a solar powered musical kinetic sculpture - a "whirlygig"- using a CD mailer, a recycled CD, several solar cells,...

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