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  • Be Cool... Stay Cool

    Be Cool... Stay Cool

    A role-playing activity about the effect of the changing environment on people and wildlife in Canada's North.

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  • Canada — an Ocean Community

    2025-11-24

    What is a community? It’s a collection of living things, joined by interrelationships and interdependencies.

  • Canada is an Ocean Community

    2025-11-24

    Every single community in Canada is linked to the sea through the never-ending flow of water in streams, rivers, wetlands, ponds, and lakes.

  • Canadian Action Makes Waves for Oceans

    2025-11-24

    Environmental problems not only cross national boundaries, but also the boundaries between federal and provincial jurisdictions.

  • Celebrate Canada's North

    2025-11-24

    Perhaps you regard the North as a cold, harsh environment. Or maybe you already know that it is a fascinating world, inhabited by spectacularly resilient plants and animals adapted to some of the most extreme conditions on the planet.

  • Celebrate With an Oceans Festival

    2025-11-24

    Students of all ages prepare a celebration of Oceans Day, June 8.

  • Clean Getaway

    2025-11-24

    This is an active simulation game, best done outdoors. Students work in teams to deliver a container of clean water from an inland community, down a river, to an ocean creature.

  • Climate Change, Sea Change

    2025-11-24

    Today, the world is heat­ing up faster than at any other time in 10,000 years. Global temperatures have risen significantly since the start of the Industrial Revolution in the early 1700s.

  • Climate Change and Your Ecological Area

    2025-11-24

    Students investigate interrelationships among plants and animals in an ecosystem and explore how climate change might affect those interrelationships and the natural community as a whole.

  • Climate Change Challenge

    2025-11-24

    Students role-play caribou and habitat components to demonstrate the impacts of climate change on the Arctic tundra.

  • Climate Connections

    2025-11-24

    Using picture cards, students play a variety of non-competitive games that explore the connections between human actions, climate change, and positive and negative impacts on wildlife habitat.