Climate Change and Energy Education Resources for K-12 Alberta teachers

Energy Efficiency/Conservation Education

Alberta Council for Environmental Education (ACEE) and Greenlearning Canada

• Energy Revealed
  • Energy Revealed is a national learning initiative that brings real-world energy monitoring and management directly into the hands of students, teachers and facility managers. 

Greenlearning Canada              

• EnerAction
  • Kid-friendly carbon calculator to assess the amount of energy used by the lights in their classroom, and then formulate a plan to reduce their consumption and track success.
• Electricity All Around Us
  • Teaches the electricity unit in the elementary Science curriculum with an interactive module designed to engage young learners
• Real World Energy
  • This complete online education program meets curriculum requirements for the energy unit in Science 24 – the Alberta grade 11 Science course.
• Energy Revealed
  • With ACEE, bringing real-world energy monitoring and management into the hands of students, teachers and facility managers.

Green Calgary

• Powering Our World
  • Offers students a hands-on and experiential exploration of how electricity is generated and supplied. 
• Energy Revolution Fair
  • One-day Pop-up Learning Extravaganza Downtown Calgary at Municipal Plaza held in conjunction with the Mayor's Environmental Expo.

Inside Education    

•  Stewardship: Energy, Climate & You
  • This digital poster education kit focuses on how our use of energy relates to climate change. The teacher’s guide contains activities that encourage personal action to engage in effective stewardship.
• Natural Resources & Energy presentations; Electricity and Energy Presentations
  • Using their award-winning approach to environment and natural resource education, their team of professional educators will bring current and curriculum-relevant programs to your school.  

ATCO Energy Sense

• Energy Education Mobile
  • A 40-foot classroom on wheels that delivers a free, one-of-a-kind learning experience at schools and community events across Alberta.

Canadian Geographic

• Classroom Energy Diet Challenge
  • K-12 classrooms across Canada improve their energy awareness and energy literacy through a variety of energy-related challenges.

Wonderville

• Lesson Plans for Energy, Science and Conservation
  • Lesson plans designed to save teachers time and engage students in the world of STEM - a world where students are innovators, critical thinkers and creative problem solvers.

SEEDS Connections

• Green Schools
  • Provides educational programs with a focus on diversity, leadership, environmental sustainability, and energy literacy.

Relay Education

• Classroom workshops
  • Concentrate on Conservation (Gr. 5), Capture the Wind (Gr. 5-6), and Plug in the Sun (Gr. 4-6)

People for Energy and Environmental Literacy (PEEL)

Twelve lesson plans covering a range of energy-related topics are divided into Basic / Intermediate / Advanced categories. This roughly translates to grades 4-6, 7-9, and 10-12.  Examples of lesson plans include: What is Energy?, Carbon Footprint, Solar Energy, Wind Energy, among others.   

Climate Change Education

• Climate Change COOL 2.0
  • Students learn about human-environment interactions, and how their personal actions can affect their climate and environment.

Greenlearning Canada

• Climate Change Where I Live
  • Students work with local environmental data to understand climate change at home and bring that information to decision makers.

Green Teacher

• Teaching About Climate Change
  • Offers a framework for teaching fundamental concepts and a variety of activities that can be undertaken in school, at home or in the community.

Inside Education

• Stewardship: Energy, Climate & You
  • Using an award-winning approach to environment and natural resource education, their team of professional educators will bring current and curriculum-relevant programs to your school.

United Nations Environment Program

• Climate Change Information Kit 
  • A compilation of climate change information compiled by various international organizations.

Let's Talk Energy

• Climate Change Adaptation Lesson Plans and Infographics.
  • Climate change adaptation lesson plans and infographics.

Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives

• Climate Justice
  • Classroom-ready materials that help students engage with the two great inconvenient truths of our time: climate change and rising inequality

North American Association for Environmental Education

• Climate Change Education Resources
  • Compilation of various current climate change education resources.

Resources for Rethinking

• Climate Change Resources and Programs
  • Free online database which provides access to over 1,200 high-quality, English and French K-12 classroom resources that have been selected and reviewed by teachers, for teachers. 

Drawdown

• 100 Best Ways For Reversing Climate Change
  • Video: Facilitating a coalition of scientists, researchers, policy makers, business leaders and activists to assemble and present the best available information on climate solutions in order to describe their beneficial financial, social and environmental impact over the next thirty years.

Columbia Basin Environmental Education Network

• Climate change Education Resource Hub
  • Pick from a number of current and impactful climate change education resources.

Habitat Conservation Trust Foundation

• Climate Change Primer
  • Provides a brief introduction to some of the Earth’s natural systems that sustain us (e.g., weather and climate systems, the carbon cycle, ecosystems) and indicates how our daily activities and societal actions have a ected these systems. 

Evergreen Artist in Residency

• Grow a Show - can choose topics - one being climate change
  • Innovative curriculum-linked programs get kids teaching their peers about science and the environment through theatre.

SEEDS Conections

• Teaching Activities for Climate Change
  • Teaching Activities for Climate Change (TACC) activity allows students to examine several energy-saving actions that will reduce their own and their family's energy consumption, reduce greenhouse gas emissions, and potentially save money.

Paleontological Research Institute

• The Teacher-Friendly Guide to Climate Change
  • Written for teachers that includes both the basics of climate change science and perspectives on teaching a subject that has become socially and politically polarized (US based info but some good information)

People for Energy and Environmental Literacy (PEEL)

• Twelve lesson plans are divided into Basic / Intermediate / Advanced categories.  This roughly translates to grades 4-6, 7-9, and 10-12.  Lessons include: Climate 101, Geothermal Energy, Biomass Energy and the Carbon Footprint, among others. 

Climate Interactive

• Climate Change Negotiations Game, designed to mimic UN Climate Change negotiations

• Interactive simulations to help students understand climate change, such as the Climate Bathtub metaphor, and the Climate Momentum simulator 

• The Climate Pathways Mobile App, the first-ever app to simulate global temperature change on a mobile device

Grants to help schools with energy education

Devon Canada

• Science Grants

Inside Education A+ for Energy Grant

• A+ for Energy Grants

Learning for a Sustainable Future

• EcoLeague Action Funding

Alberta Emerald Foundation

• Youth Engagement Grants

Energy Education Resources

Greenlearning Canada

• Re-energy.ca
  • High school students learn how to build a wind turbine, solar oven, hydroelectric generator or biogas generator—so they can see firsthand how applied science is helping create a more sustainable future.
• EnerAction

  • Kid-friendly carbon calculator to assess the amount of energy used by the lights in their classroom, and then formulate a plan to reduce their consumption and track success.

• Electricity All Around Us

  • Teaches the electricity unit in the elementary Science curriculum with an interactive module designed to engage young learners

• eCards
  • Shows kids that the letters and emails that world leaders, politicians, and business people receive about environmental issues can have a very real impact on policy and products.

Inside Education

• Learning Resources
  • Free learning resources, packed full of interactive learning activities that use a creative approach.  All resources are curriculum-connected and classroom-ready, complete with fun activities and exercises that support different learning styles and teaching situations.
  • Energy resources include an electricity poster, oil sands field trips, energy dialogues, petroleum field trips, and petroleum poster. 

Classroom & Field Programs

• Using their award-winning approach to environment and natural resource education, their team of professional educators will bring current and curriculum-relevant programs to your school. Options include:

  • Natural Resources & Energy
  • Electricity & Energy
  • Electricity Challenge - A Solar Lantern Building Project
  • Energy & the Environment - An Oil Sands Case Study

SEEDS Connections

• Energy Literacy Series
  • Web-based teaching program that begins with an Introduction to Energy, followed by ten modules that examine all renewable and nonrenewable energy sources.

Canadian Geographic

• Energy IQ
  • A compilation of information and resources to help educators, students and the general public get a detailed look at energy across Canada.

ATCO Energy Sense

• Energy Education Mobile

  • A 40-foot classroom on wheels that delivers a free, one-of-a-kind learning experience at schools and community events across Alberta.

ATCO Electric

• Teaching Power
  •  Teaches young Albertans in our service areas about electricity, electrical safety, and energy efficiency. Activities have been developed in consultation with Alberta teachers and directly align with provincial curriculum outcomes.

Green Calgary

• Powering Our World
  • Offers students a hands-on and experiential exploration of how electricity is generated and supplied. Students will gain insight into the technology, production, consumption, conservation, and impacts of electricity systems.

Energy.gov - Office of Energy Efficiency & Renewable Energy

• Energy Literacy
  • Energy Literacy: Essential Principles and Fundamental Concepts for Energy Education presents interdisciplinary energy concepts that, if understood and applied, will help individuals and communities make informed energy decisions. 

Student Energy

• Energy Topics
  • Clearly laid-out information and videos about types of energy and how they are used.
• Energy Systems Map
  • Interactive map that explores relationships between sources, production, transport, conversion, form, distribution and use of energy types.

Energy for All

• Renewable energy 
  • The Energy For All local education and awareness program provides 6 learning modules and provides hands-on participatory activities in topics of renewable energy and water management.

Pollution Probe

• Primer on Energy Systems in Canada
  • The Primer on Energy Systems in Canada, Second Edition is now available!

STAR EcoWorks

• Access to Energy classroom workshops - building solar lanterns
  • Students build solar lanterns to encourage inquiry and provide information and insights into the global challenge of energy poverty.

Relay Education

• Classroom workshops
• Concentrate on Conservation (Gr. 5), Capture the Wind (Gr. 5-6), and Plug in the Sun (Gr. 4-6)

Green Energy Futures

• Over 200 episodes showcasing green energy in Canada
• List of episodes recommended for teachers

Youth Leadership

SEEDS Connections

• Connections - multicultural, environmental leadership programs

Inside Education

• Gener8 - youth energy education summit

Green Calgary

• Energy Revolution Fair

Alberta Council for Environmental Education (ACEE)

• Alberta Youth Leaders for Environment and Energy Education (AYLEEE)