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Visit the Infusing Indigenous Knowledge Into Curriculum website for opportunities within the Alberta Curriculum. The group, led by a team of educators from the Kee Tas Kee Now Tribal Council Educational Authority, identified essential learning outcomes (ELOs) by viewing curriculum through the lens of land based learning (LBL), Cree ways of knowing and being (Nehiyaw Ways of Knowing), and the learning needs of students in their communities.

Many classrooms and schools are using the free ArcGIS online for schools in their teaching and learning.

• ArcGIS StoryMaps combine interactive maps, text, video, images and more to tell a story.
• ArcGIS Survey123 turns surveys into maps that can be analyzed and shared with others.
• ArcGIS Dashboards allow you to make sense of the world through innovative and easy-to-create visualizations of data. 

Visit the website for blog posts by local teachers to get inspired! 

The Canadian Network for Ocean Education provides toolkits for all Grade levels in a variety of subject areas featuring hands on activities and videos. Another resource is Ocean Education Wednesday for Junior High/High School, which provides ready-made slide decks every week as a PDF download, SMARTnotebook file, or Powerpoint presentation.

Canada's Outdoor Learning Store sells a variety of book bundles, guides, and kits to aid educators in taking learning outdoors. Search the shop by seasons, themes, type, language, and age level. It is run as a social enterprise which allows them to provide a return for outdoor learning non-profit organizations from across the country, and beyond.

The Into Nature guide from Back to Nature Network contains helpful tips on how to start an outdoor education program in your teaching. The second half features dozens of activities (beginning on page 24). More detailed lesson plans begin on page 51.

This guide to nature journaling from Project Learning Tree introduces ways you can integrate journaling to your teaching in a variety of subject areas. 

Four videos designed to provide a background to understanding climate data.

Video 1: Trends and Variability

Video 2: Spatial Variability 

Video 3: Understanding Models

Video 4: Unpacking RCPs

Scroll down to view lesson plans, which include a biodiversity tally, soil moisture testing with easy to find materials, daily weather recording, and more!

Scroll down to Resources for Teachers or Resources for Parents and Guardians to download your free guides today!

Green Calgary has created lesson plans and activities in a variety of subject areas and topics, including waste, recycling, biodiversity, citizen science, energy, stormwater, climate change, and vermicomposting. Activities explore science, math and language arts in nature, as well as art.