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The following are some links to resources as shared at the Environmental Education Association of the Yukon (EEAY) meeting on Thursday November 6. If you would like full meeting notes, please email us:

Environmental Education Association of the Yukon website has some updates.

Climate change resources:

· Girl Guides have a Climate Change challenge as part of program

· Green Teacher resources in French and English

· Environment Canada Green Lane

· Yukon Conservation Society project Climate Change North

List of funding sources for environmental projects from Environment Yukon education and youth programs .

Lots of bilingual resources on Parks Canada web site:

· Guest speaker Anne Chilibeck: Grade 7 bear program & Grade 8 Kokanee program

· True to Our Nature – two Yukon resources for Grade 10/12 Science/Geography on kokanee and Porcupine caribou herd.

Yukon Innovators in the Schools Yukon service that connects resource people with school classes. Also doing a Girls Science Club this winter with water theme, very popular.

Reports/articles on EE

· BC Government – Environmental Learning and Experience – an Interdisciplinary Guide for Teachers. Uses approach of CARE: Complexity, Aesthetics, Responsibility, Ethics.

· Ontario Gov’t - Shaping our Schools, Shaping our Future (a.k.a Bondar Report)

· Green Teacher magazine (www.greenteacher.com) Green Tsunami Rising article on the third wave of interest in and support for environmental education. Sees current interest in the environment a real opportunity educators should use (available at EEAY website www.taiga.net/YukonEE

Various and assorted programs offered by Environment Yukon:

· English brochure

· French brochure

Engaging in our Communities as Global Citizens Resource created by Canadian Teachers’ Federation and potentially being inserviced with Yukon teachers in near future

International Polar Year Teacher and Class Resource Materials and Activities

International Polar Year website http://www.ipy.org/

Canadian IPY website http://www.ipycanada.ca/

Federal IPY site http://www.api-ipy.gc.ca/index_e.html

Polar Pals http://cdn-ipy-ed-outreach.blogspot.com/

Educapoles http://www.educapoles.org/

Environment Canada IPY research page http://www.ec.gc.ca/api-ipy