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Environment & Climate Change

Books & Accompanying Learning Resources

Nothing threatens our children more than the ongoing climate catastrophe. The books and related learning resources in this collection focus on the environment and provide context to what is happening. Each of these activities and resources will inspire young people to take action to protect our planet.

Boogy & Tee and Twinkle & Hew

Boogy & Tee and Twinkle & Hew

Two boats at sea, struck by a storm, are impacted very differently — a tale about economic inequality and climate change, patterned on a classic poem.

Resource Skills & Subjects: Make Predictions, Oral Language, Visual Elements, Comprehension Strategies, Vocabulary Acquisition, Key Ideas & Details, Critical Thinking in Literacy, Text Forms & Genres, Just for Fun!, Developing & Creating Texts, Further Research

Topics: Diversity, Environment & Climate Change, Human Rights & Activism, Stories of Resilience

Audience: ages 3 to 6 / grades P to 1

Cover of Dominic Bean and the Mammoth Melt

Dominic Bean and the Mammoth Melt

A timely and contemporary middle-grade novel set against the backdrop of wildfire smoke and climate change.

Resource Skills & Subjects: Critical Thinking in Literacy, Further Research, Integrated Learning, Oral Language, Writing, Making Connections, Character Development, Comprehension Strategies, Social & Emotional Learning, Key Ideas & Details, Make Predictions, Literary Devices, Visual Elements, Developing & Creating Texts, Just for Fun!

Topics: Environment & Climate Change, Nature & the Natural World, Stories of Resilience

Audience: ages 9 to 12 / grades 4 to 7

How to Bee Written by Bren MacDibble

How to Bee

A story about family, loyalty, kindness and bravery, set against an all-too-possible future where climate change has forever changed the way we live.

Resource Skills & Subjects: Key Ideas & Details, Comprehension Strategies, Critical Thinking in Literacy, Integrated Learning, Developing & Creating Texts, Further Research

Topics: Environment & Climate Change, Nature & the Natural World

Audience: ages 9 to 12 / grades 4 to 7

A Forest in the City Written by Andrea Curtis Illustrated by Pierre Pratt

A Forest in the City

This beautiful book of narrative non-fiction looks at the urban forest and dives into the question of how we can live in harmony with city trees.

Resource Skills & Subjects: Key Ideas & Details, Comprehension Strategies, Vocabulary Acquisition, Integrated Learning, Developing & Creating Texts, Further Research

Topics: Environment & Climate Change, Nature & the Natural World

Audience: ages 8 to 12 / grades 3 to 7

My Street Remembers

Resource Skills & Subjects: Key Ideas & Details, Comprehension Strategies, Visual Elements, Oral Language, Vocabulary Acquisition, Critical Thinking in Literacy, Integrated Learning, Text Forms & Genres, Developing & Creating Texts, Just for Fun!

Topics: Diversity, Environment & Climate Change, Indigenous Voices

Audience: ages 3 to 6 / grades K to 1