Stewardship: Energy, Climate and You

This poster kit features lots of great activities for your students to encourage personal action and effective Stewardship.

Electricity Kit

This poster depicts Canada's most common sources of electricity, as well as its generation, transmission and distribution. Kit also includes a teacher's guide filled great activities and a CD containing student handouts, information and images.
Grades 8 & 9 Science
Grade 8 Social Studies

Cost: Free
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Current Forest Issues

With new information on topics of interest related to Alberta’s forests, this binder of five short readers with accompanying questions is well set up for small group work in junior high classrooms. Topics: forests & climate change, forest changes, forest careers, forest management, and forest economics.
7-9 Science, Social Studies, Environmental & Outdoor Education

Cost: Free

Guide to Common Native Trees and Shrubs of Alberta

Full-page descriptions and colour photos of a variety of common species are included in this field guide. Easy identification is ensured with the dichotomous key and glossary.
All grades

Cost: $7.50 each or $6.00 each for five or more.

Hidden Water

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An informative multimedia presentation that will introduce students to the science of groundwater in Alberta. Topics include groundwater quality, links to the hydrologic cycle, as well as the distribution and uses of groundwater in the province.
Grade 8 and 9 Science

Cost: Free

Mountain Pine Beetle Mania

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Available in English or French, this teachers’ guide is designed to bring the biology and issues surrounding mountain pine beetle into the spotlight.
Grade 7-9 Science and Others

Cost: Free

Petroleum Poster Kit

Student exercises, informative poster and background information address the impact petroleum exploration and development has on the environment and ecosystem and the economic and social influence that petroleum revenues have on our quality of life.
Grade 7, 8 and 9 Science, Grade 9 Social Studies

Cost: Free

Running Water

All the material and information you need to help you explore the science and issues surrounding water, with a focus on Alberta’s semi-arid south. The kit includes multiple copies of an informative and fun poster; a CD containing duplicating masters and complementary information; and a teacher’s guide full of activities that will help you enrich this unit
Grades 7-9 Science

Cost: Free

Petroleum Field Trip

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Quick quiz – True or false, “Oil” that comes out of the ground is suitable for use as ‘oil’ in your vehicle. It is assumed that just because we are in Alberta, where petroleum has such an important influence on our environment and economy, that we automatically know where it comes from, how it is developed, refined and used in our daily lives. These videos are a series of mini-field trips “behind the scenes” as we explore the processes of petroleum.

Natural Gas
Conventional Oil
Formation and Exploration
Drilling and Containment

Cost: Free