Primary Junior Environmental Education

Kid-friendly, expert site explores key climate issues

The Council of Outdoor Educators of Ontario (COEO) is a non-profit, volunteer-based organization that promotes safe and high quality outdoor education experiences for people of all ages. It also acts as a professional body for outdoor educators in the province of Ontario. These aims are achieved through publishing Pathways: The Ontario Journal of Outdoor Education as well as an electronic newsletter, running an annual conference and occasional regional workshops, maintaining this web site, and working with kindred organizations as well as government agencies.

Created by educators, Cube For Teachers is a free solution for all educators everywhere that fosters straight-forward access to open educational resources, increasing efficiency and collaboration.

As part of ETFO’s ongoing efforts towards equity and social justice, this new resource was developed to inform the membership about how the themes such as environmental racism, colonization and migration merge with climate change.

Here are classroom ideas to mark important environmental days during the year along with resources and articles that ETFO has compiled on the issue of environment and climate justice.

GreenLearning creates free online education programs about energy, climate change and green economy that engage and empower students to create positive change for our evolving world.

Explore these collections of activities that have been curated for educators, parents, and caregivers to implement with K–12 learners.

OER Commons is a public digital library of open educational resources. Search the Open Educational Resources (OER) Commons for carefully selected, free, lesson plans that you can be modified to align with the Ontario curriculum.

The Ontario Association for Geographic and Environmental Education (OAGEE) is very pleased to assist its teacher members by hosting easily implemented classroom resources, which is the result of many teachers’ hard work donated in good faith.

Since 2002, EcoSchools Canada’s award-winning program has provided independent, third-party verification for schools and outdoor education centres. We are the largest bilingual, voluntary environmental certification program for K-12 schools in Canada. Click on the "School Resources" tab.

This site contains a curated collection of resources selected by Ontario educators for Ontario educators. This site includes difficult to find Ontario Ministry of Education professional development resources. All of the documents are shared with permission.

The Ontario Society for Environmental Education (OSEE, pronounced “oh see”) is a Subject Association for all educators, both formal and non-formal who are interested in integrating environmental topics into their teaching practice.

Games, activities, and resources aligned with the Ontario curriculum.