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Greetings!
Welcome back!! Hope you all had a wonderful and
sustainable summer! As the new school
year begins, LSF has a host of opportunities to engage you and your students in
exploring important environmental, economic and social issues through active and interdisciplinary learning:
- Access
over 700 sustainability resources on R4R.ca!
- Attend a workshop or book a free program!
- Apply
for funding for your Action Project!
- Step Outside with your students and
appreciate nature in the fall!!
This month we also feature two new partnership initiatives - ZEROchallenge and the AVIVA Community Fund.
Take a look at the programs and I am sure that you will find something to inspire you and your
students to make a difference!
Enjoy, Pamela Schwartzberg Executive Director
Pictured Left:
The Ghost River project,
at Annette St. Jr. and Sr. Public School, celebrates the buried river that flows under the school's yard and teaches
students about the fragility of our watersheds. -Project FLOW, Toronto, ON
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Resources for Rethinking (R4R.ca) ESD Teaching Resources at your Fingertips!
Access over 700 classroom
resources (in English and French) that help you to explore the environmental, social and economic issues in our world
today through active, interdisciplinary learning. R4R.ca is an on-line database where you can search by subject, grade, and theme for classroom-ready
resources that connect to your curriculum outcomes. There is no charge to access this inventory and a majority
of the materials it offers can be downloaded. |
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Mining the Carbon Out of People's
Lifestyles Carbon Footprint Teacher Workshop
Space is limited for grade 5 and 6 teachers to attend LSF's "Mining
the Carbon out of People's Lifestyles" Teacher Workshop taking place on
September 28th, 2010 at York
University. This workshop provides teachers with the resources and tools
to
engage their students in activities to measure and reduce their carbon
footprint
at school and at home. You will get electricity meters, compact
fluorescent
light bulbs, and power bars. There are also prizes for the schools that
achieve
the greatest reduction in energy.
Please visit http://www.lsf-lst.ca/en/projects/youth-taking-action/mining-the-carbon-out-of-peoples-lifestyles for more details, and to register! Registration deadline is September
17th, 2010.
LSF would like to thank the Ontario Ministry of
Environment's Community Go Green Fund for their
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EcoLeague™ Linking
Education to Action
Funding Sustainability Action Projects
Want to start a
school-wide
vermicomposting initiative? Make your own cloth bags? Plant native
species in
the schoolyard? Or start a litterless lunch campaign? Sustainability
action
projects are eligible for up to $400
of funding through LSF's EcoLeague program! Please visit www.ecoleague.ca
for details. The deadline
for submitting applications is November
1st, 2010.
School
Action
Days Facilitated Classroom Workshops
Interested in getting a sustainability
initiative going at your school, but don't know where to start?
EcoLeague
Action Days are the perfect opportunity for you!* Choose from one of
eight
EcoLeague
recipes,
including No Idling at School, Food for Thought, and Yellow Fish Road.
Book your free program. LSF staff will
visit your school to facilitate a 3-hour, hands-on, action filled
workshop that
supports your curriculum outcomes. For more information, please contact
Lilly
Briggs, Project Coordinator, at [email protected].
*EcoLeague Action Days are only
available in select Canadian cities, including Vancouver, Toronto,
Ottawa, and
Montreal.
LSF will be at the Roots and Shoots Conference in
Sudbury EcoLeague Workshops - October 6, 2010
LSF is delivering two EcoLeague teacher
workshops in Sudbury this fall as part of the Roots and Shoots
Conference! If
you teach Grade 9 Geography, Grade 10 Civics, Grade 10 Science, Grade 11
Environmental Science, and/or manage the Green Club, this workshop is
for you!!
You will receive the tools, techniques and resources to help you
facilitate a
successful energy or water action project with your students. The Roots
and Shoots Conference is being held at Science North in Sudbury on
Wednesday,
October 6th, 2010. To register: |
Youth Advisory Committee (YAC)
LSF is launching a Youth Advisory Committee (YAC)!! The
YAC will consist of 8-10 high-school aged youth from across the
country.
YACs will provide LSF with a stronger youth perspective on our programs. YACs will also act as ambassadors for LSF. collaborating with students nationwide, and helping LSF engage more
youth in sustainability education and action
initiatives.
For more information or to apply, please contact: [email protected] |
Step Outside Your Guide to Nature's Events
This school year, engage your
students in hands-on, active learning by having them Step Outside! Take your students on a field trip without ever
leaving the school yard!! Be prepared to answer questions like "why do leaves
change colour in the fall?", or "where do frogs go in the winter?" Step Outside are nature guides, published
two to three times per month, highlighting seasonal happenings which are often
taking place just outside the classroom! Please visit www.r4r.ca/step-outside to sign up
for the guides. |
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Project FLOW For the Love Of Water
Are you passionate about reducing
the use of plastic water bottles at your school? Are you concerned about the
quality of your drinking water? Is your local riverbank littered with debris?
If water issues are your focus, than LSF's Project FLOW is the answer!! Project
FLOW provides workshops and
resources for teachers, and funding of up
to $3000 to support your water action project. For project ideas, eligibility
criteria, and application forms please visit www.r4r.ca/project-flow. The deadline
for Project FLOW funding applications is November 1st, 2010.
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Calling
all
Teacher Candidates/ Master of Education Students
LSF is seeking Faculty of Education ESD
ambassadors
to facilitate the sharing of ESD related programs and resources with
their
teachers and peers. Ambassadors will be the eyes, ears and heart of
bringing
ESD to your faculty for the coming year. This is a volunteer position,
with free
training and classroom resource benefits!! It is open to students in
undergraduate or graduate teacher education programs. If you are
interested
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A Day Made Better Winners to be announced October 5th!
'A Day Made Better' recognizes teachers for
going above and beyond the call of duty in engaging their students in sustainability
education. On October 5th, 2010, LSF, in partnership with Grand and
Toy, will honour 12 amazing Canadian teachers from Calgary, Burnaby, Victoria, Winnipeg, Dartmouth, Kingston,
Ottawa, Toronto, Vaughan, Anjou, Lachine and Saskatoon.
The winning teachers, who have been nominated by their peers, administrators, parents or students will
be surprised with $1500 in school
supplies, sustainability resources, and a brand new chair.
Learn more about A Day Made Better.
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Lights, camera, action!!
Want to show the world your amazing action projects?? Send us your stories, pictures, and videos and we will post them on the LSF sites!! Please |
ZEROchallenge Measure. Compare. Change!
LSF
is pleased to be partnering with Zerofootprint for ZEROchallenge - helping students
measure their schools' carbon footprint and compete to achieve the largest
reduction! Visit http://zerochallenge.zerofootprint.net/ to sign up and get your
school on the map! |
AVIVA Community Fund LSF partners with Aviva for the 2010 Competition
Want to create a Helping Hands
club to make "back to school kits" for needy kids? Want to engage the school
community in cooking a holiday dinner for the homeless in your community? LSF
is pleased to be partnering with Aviva Canada to help schools across Canada
undertake community initiatives that address children and families in need.
The
Aviva Community Fund is providing $1 million in 2010 to lead, empower and
support these initiatives. Schools post their ideas and Canadians vote for
their most popular ideas. The winners will have a chance to share the $1,000,000
Aviva Community Fund. Submit your ideas by September 27, 2010. Voting begins October 4, 2010.
For more information, please visit http://www.avivacommunityfund.org/.
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Meet some of our Partners...
Out
to Learn... Experiential Learning that Lasts a Lifetime!Out
to Learn offers natural
resource and ecological education programs and services that are science
and geography based with direct links to the Ontario curriculum. www.outtolearn.ca; Yours Outdoors... Explore Haliburton Yours
Outdoors specializes in experiential tourism in the Haliburton Highlands. Themed packages engage learners in
authentic experiences; connect them with local communities and the outdoors;
and foster understanding of and commitment to sustainability. www.yoursoutdoors.ca |
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LSF works with partners to provide the teaching
and learning strategies that students will need to meet the profound social, environmental,
economic and political challenges of the 21st century.
LSF delivers our programs to teachers and students in classrooms across Canada everyday.
By making a donation on the
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How to Contact LSF...Questions? Comments? Innovative ideas? Please contact: Lilly Briggs LSF
Project Coordinator [email protected] 1-877-250-8202 or 416-327-7028. |
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