On the Blanket of Mother Earth: First Nations Environmental Education
The project combines in-class learning with outdoor education, connecting the standard Ontario curriculum with First Nations ways of knowing.
Environment
Ideas for Greening Your Classroom
Teachers and schools have a key role to play in our planet’s future. Environmental education is a key component for creating a generation of students who understand that each of us can powerfully affect the fate of the natural world, environmental systems and their sustainability.
Plant the Seed of The School Garden: In Conversation with Green Thumbs for Growing Kids Program Director Sunday Harrison
Early exposure to soil helps kids understand the source of life as being the natural world – sun, soil, rain, and plants – and to grasp this with all of their five senses, experientially.
Environment Matters
While environmental education is always a priority, Earth Day (April 22) presents an opportunity to highlight the environment as an important global issue.
A New Home for ETFO (From the General Secretary)
This month work will begin on a project that has been in development for several years. Demolition crews will begin tearing down an old building to make way for a new home for ETFO.
My Place Amongst Trees
Muskoka is an ideal place for an outdoor classroom. Algonquin Park lies just beyond our small town and its trees tower over the back of our schoolyard.
Your Federation
Members of provincial parliament met with ETFO presidents and executive members at an informal breakfast gathering.
Letters to the Editor
Re: EcoSchools October 2009
December 10, 2009
Eco Schools: Energizing Environmental Education in Ontario
The Ontario EcoSchools program is one of the most effective programs for addressing ETFO’s priority of care and protection of the environment.
Carbon-Offsetting: Ecosystem 2000 to the Rescue
Scott Young Public School is a grade 5 to 8 school in Omemee, a community west of Peterborough. The school is the home of an award-winning environmental education program.