Teachers across BC now have more opportunity to include community in their classrooms: sustainability and place-based learning are core foundations of the BC K-12 curriculum. Metro Vancouver provides classroom-ready resources which support teachers to connect to essential priorities and local sustainability topics while engaging students in inquiry and experiential learning.
Activities to explore the relationships between our everyday lives, our region, and Metro Vancouver services.
Resources to support learning about climate change, better understand local impacts, and support effective, local climate action.
Resources that introduce Metro Vancouver’s drinking water sources, water treatment, water testing, and water conservation.
Resources that provide an overview of solid waste management from your home to a recycling and waste centre, and beyond.
Resources to learn about wastewater collection and treatment and the systems and processes that protect our health and the environment.
Resources to explore what contributes to air quality, and how and why air quality across Metro Vancouver is monitored.
Find pathways to connect to the following topics throughout the BC Science and Social Studies curriculum:
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