Climate Change Where I Live (CCWIL) is a unique approach to teaching and learning about climate change that takes this global and often daunting issue down to the local level, facilitating student inquiry into the impacts of climate change where they live and the mitigation and adaptation measures required. Students access primary resource materials on climate change and team up with experts to examine climate change in their community, watershed or region or through a sectoral lens of agriculture or recreation. Focusing on the local enables students to engage with others in solutions, to take action. CCWIL is inquiry-based learning in Science and Geography.

Extreme Weather Inquiry

Extreme Weather - Resources

Building Resilience to Climate Risks

Climate Change, Extreme Weather and Cities

CBC Media Panel on Climate Change and Extreme Weather

Extreme Weather Factsheet

Maple Syrup Production Inquiry

Maple Syrup Production - Resources

Climate Change and Maple Syrup

Sugaring

Maple Syrup Production and Climate Change (CCWIL Ask-an-Expert)

Municipality Inquiry

Climate Change in My Community (CCWIL/Online Version/Saskatchewan)

Climate Change in My Community (CCWIL/ Toronto-area Online Version)

Municipality - Resources

Climate Change for Municipalities

Climage Change and Kingston

City of Kingston and Climate Change, Ask-an-Expert

Recreation Inquiry

Recreation - Resources

Climate Change and Recreation: Consequences and Costs

Global Climate Change: Recreation (Student Guide)

Tourism and Recreation In a Changing Climate (Ontario)

Impact of Climate Change on Winter Recreation

Climate Change and Nature-based Tourism, Outdoor Recreationa nd Forestry (Ontario)

 On Thin Ice: Winter Sports and Climate Change

The Effects of Climate Change on Recreation and Tourism in the Prairies

Watershed Inquiry

Watershed - Resources

Mississippi River (Ontario) in a Changing Climate - Factsheet

Ontario's Mississippi Watershed - Impacts of 2012 Drought

From Impacts to Adaption - Mississippi Watershed (Ont) in a Changing Climate

What is a Watershed? - Poster

Watersheds and Climate Change - Ask-an-Expert

Forest Inquiry

Our Climate Is Changing - Our Forests Are Changing - What About us?

These student inquiries work well in conjunction with the grade 10 Climate Change Science Unit.