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Viability
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LSF's Quarterly Newsletter
March 2010
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Greetings!
Welcome to VIABILITY, Learning for a Sustainable Future's quarterly newsletter!
Viability provides you with an overview of LSF's programs, and highlights opportunities, resources and funding to help you embed Education for Sustainable Development (ESD) into your classrooms.
ESD is an educational process
designed to empower all citizens to create a sustainable future - environmentally, socially and economically.
We are now half way through the United Nations Decade of ESD (2005-2014). We hope you'll join us in implementing ESD in Canada. An excellent way is by taking on an action project - and we have funding to help you with that!
Enjoy,
Pamela Schwartzberg
Executive Director
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More on Learning for a Sustainable Future (LSF)
LSF is a national, non-profit
organization, founded in 1991 to integrate education for sustainable
development into Canada's education systems. LSF's mission is to
promote, through education, the knowledge, skills, perspectives, and
practices essential to a sustainable future. Across Canada, our
innovative programs and partnerships are:
- reshaping education policy
- supporting youth and educators
- bringing classrooms into
the community
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EcoLeague™
Linking Education to Action
EcoLeague™ challenges and motivates students to
engage in community and school-based sustainability action projects.
If you and your students have a great idea for an action project, make
2010 the year you carry it out.
Visit www.ecoleague.ca to access Action
Project Recipes, success stories, and up to $400 in funding.
Deadline for applications is March 31st, 2010.
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EcoLeague Success Story
The Eco Team from St. Leo Catholic School in Brooklin, Ontario
attended the most recent EcoLeague  Youth Forum in October 2009, and on the bus
home they were bursting with excitement. They had so many new ideas they wanted
to share with the rest of their school and Eco Team. Upon arriving back at
school, they immediately had an opportunity to put their environmental
knowledge and enthusiasm towards making a difference. Read the whole story. |
Resources for Rethinking 
Resources Reviewed by Teachers,
for Teachers!
Resources for
Rethinking (R4R.ca) is a free, on-line database of classroom-ready resources and lesson plans to help teachers bring environmental, social and economic themes and concepts into their classrooms.
Search 700 resources from over 250 publishers, by:
- language - English and French
- province
- subject
- grade
- sustainability theme
Each R4R resource has
been reviewed by an experienced classroom teacher and matched to curriculum
outcomes for all provinces and territories.
Start finding excellent ESD resources now!
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What teachers are saying...
"R4R is simply "one stop shopping" at its best for
any educator wishing to access the cream of the crop in Education for
Sustainable Development resources" J. D. - Teacher, Nova
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Project FLOW
For the Love Of Water
Project FLOW engages elementary and secondary
students in hands-on action projects that promote water stewardship and
model active citizenship.
In March there are two great days to start a water action project
Please
visit www.r4r.ca/en/project-flow for teaching resources, project ideas and funding applications. FLOW provides funding of up to $3,000.
Deadline for applications is March
31st, 2010.
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Project FLOW Success Story
The grade 12 students at Scarlett Heights Entrepreneurial Academy
found themselves asking numerous questions after watching the documentary
entitled Flow: For the Love of Water. They used information from the
documentary along with their  own research to develop an action plan that was supported and funded by Project FLOW. The project was a three-phase plan that
involved a shoreline clean-up and a public awareness campaign. Read the whole story and watch their video! |
Step Outside
Your Guide to Nature's Events
Step
Outside Nature Guides highlight seasonal happenings as
they unfold throughout the school year. These entertaining glimpses of the world beyond the classroom offer
students and teachers alike a highly informative, visual and interactive
experience.
Topics introduced in
each guide are linked to resources found on the Resources for Rethinking
website to allow teachers the option of extending the learning.
Check out the latest Nature Guide:
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ESD Canada - Get Involved in Changing Education across Canada
ESD Canada is a
network that brings together a broad range of stakeholders from across
Canada to
support Education for Sustainable Development
(ESD)
within the formal, non-formal and informal education systems. The ESDCanada.ca web portal provides a place for sustainability educators across the country to collaborate, share resources, research, events, opportunities and news about
ESD. Link up with peers through blogs! To learn more, please visit www.esdcanada.ca.
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How to Support LSF...
Support LSF by making a donation on the
CanadaHelps.org website. CanadaHelps is a registered charity that processes secure, online
donations on behalf of Canada's 80,000+ registered charitable organizations. Please visit www.CanadaHelps.org today to help us
continue our work to bring education for sustainable development to Canada's
formal and informal education.
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| Funding for Action Projects |
The defining characteristic of an action project is that it is experiential and involves hands-on learning. An action project is about: visioning, researching, acting, reflecting, and celebrating. LSF provides funding for action projects through two of our programs: |
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Deadline: March 31st 2010 for the 2009-2010 school year.
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How to Contact LSF...
Questions? Comments? Innovative ideas?? Please contact: Lilly Briggs
LSF
Project Coordinator
lilly@lsf-lst.ca
1-877-250-8202 or 416-327-7028. |
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