General Resources for Environmental Education in Saskatchewan

  • Saskatchewan Outdoor Environmental Education Association

    SOEEA encourages year round participation in outdoor activities to foster the growth of outdoor recreation and environmental education by providing and facilitating learning opportunities involving the natural and built environments.

  • Saskatchewan Science Teachers' Society

    This Science Teacher's Society provides an opportunity for student teachers to join the Society and have access to resources, conferences, and workshops while completing their studies and during internship.

  • Saskatchewan Ministry of Environment

    Provides a variety of resources and background information on a number of issues in Saskatchewan - conservation, water quality, wildlife management, natural resources and energy, and so on..

  • Earthcare Connections

    A Humboldt Based organization dedicated to creating educational opportunities for classes on sustainability from a spiritual perspective.

Online Curriculum Resources

  • Evergreen Curriculum - Sask Learning

  • Saskatoon Public School Board - Online Learning Centre

  • Prairie Spirit School Division

  • Central i School

  • Canadian Environmental Literacy Project

    The mandate of the Canadian Environmental Literacy Project (CELP) is to develop open-access curriculum materials in support of teaching environmental studies in universities, colleges, and high schools in Canada. The focus is on materials that address Canadian issues within local, regional or international contexts.

    These modular materials can be used "as is" or they may be adapted by instructors to suit their specific needs. Our goal is to offer engaging classroom lectures, calculation exercises, and activities and field-trip ideas that are informative, credible, objective, motivating, and personally relevant to students and instructors. We seek to incorporate a variety of teaching and learning styles.

  • Pollution Probe

    has prepared a series of educational Primers on environmental topics. The goal of the Primers is to inform Canadians about current environmental issues by setting out the scientific basis for concern, potential solutions, and the policy tools avaialbe. Primer topics include source water protection, climate change, emissions trading, renewable energy, mercury, drinking water, and smog. Follow this link to download the Primers.

National/International organizations and bodies

  • Green Teacher

    Green Teacher is a non-profit organization which publishes resources to help educators, both inside and outside of schools, to promote global and environmental awareness among young people from elementary through high school. The organization's primary activity is the publication of Green Teacher, a quarterly magazine full of teaching ideas from successful "green" educators. Each issue of Green Teacher offers perspectives on the role of education in creating a sustainable future, practical cross-curricular activities for various grade levels, and reviews of the latest teaching resources.

  • Green Street

    Green Street is like a quality control organization that monitors the quality and availability of environmental education resources for classrooms in Canada. They have developed partnerships with a number of organizations who provide environmental education resources to streamline the delivery of their programs, and sponsor classes to cover the costs of the resources. Contact Green Street for more information.

  • Green Schools

    This program encourages students to be environmentally responsible and to take personal action at school and with their families. Classes undertake projects to communicate about or to enhance the environment. Classes then log their project results and report them to SEEDS. By keeping records of their achievements, schools gradually work towards 100 projects to become recognized as an environmental Green School. Some schools go on to achieve Jade status (250), Emerald status (500) and ultimately Earth School with 1,000 completed projects. There are 234 Earth Schools in Canada.

  • Facing the Future

    A U.S. based non-profit organization providing teachers, students, and the public with sustainability and global issues educational materials and action opportunities to shape our future. Our programs address the interconnected issues of population, environment, consumption, peace and conflict, poverty and equity.