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Knowing Home weaves Indigenous perspectives, worldviews, and wisdom practices into the science curriculum. It provides a window into the scientific knowledge and technological innovations of the Indigenous peoples who live in Northwestern North America, thus providing numerous examples and cases for developing science lessons and curricula.

Keywords: Indigenous Education, Science education, Curriculum studies
Link to Resource: https://greatbearrainforesttrust.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/05/Knowingh...

The Journal of Sustainability Education (JSE) serves as a forum for academics and practitioners to share, critique, and promote research, practices, and initiatives that foster the integration of economic, ecological, and social-cultural dimensions of sustainability within formal and non-formal educational contexts.

Link to Resource: http://www.susted.com/wordpress/

This volume explores how researchers around the globe are coming to terms - both theoretically and practically - with place in the context of settler colonialism, globalization, and environmental degradation. McKenzie and Tuck outline a trajectory of critical place inquiry that not only furthers empirical knowledge, but ethically imagines new possibilities for collaboration and action.

Keywords: Place-based learning, Indigenous education, Research Methodology  
Link to Resource: https://go.exlibris.link/q4BpTFv2

This book explores the nature of indigenous education, outlining key elements of American Indian perspectives on learning and teaching. It advocates developing a contemporary, culturally based, educational process founded upon traditional tribal values, orientations, and principles, while simultaneously using the most appropriate concepts, technologies, and content of modern education.

Keywords: Indigenous education, Ecology, Indigenous Science Curriculum
Link to Resource: https://go.exlibris.link/bGct5KWq 

College of Sustainability Undergraduate Honours Theses.  

Link to Resource: https://dalspace.library.dal.ca/handle/10222/14621 

This new toolkit is designed to aid public health professionals in giving guest lectures on climate, health, and equity at local high schools, summer camps or anywhere that students in grades 9-12 learn.

Keywords: Health, Wellbeing, Youth Education
Link to Resource: https://apha.org/Topics-and-Issues/Climate-Change/Education

Includes the USA's National Climate Assessment, Climate Literacy Framework, Wildlife and Wildlands Toolkit, Climate Change Education Videos from the National Park Service and more.

Keywords: Climate, Energy, Biodiversity
Link to Resource: https://www.globalchange.gov/browse/educators

NOAA Climate.gov provides timely and authoritative scientific data and information about climate science, adaptation, and mitigation. Their goals are to promote public understanding of climate science and climate-related events, to make NOAA data products and services easy to access and use, to provide climate-related support to the private sector and economy, and to serve people making climate-related decisions with tools and resources that help them answer specific question

Keywords: Climate Resilience Toolkit, Maps & Data, Teaching Climate
Link to Resource: https://www.climate.gov/teaching/climate

Their materials include lesson plans, interactive maps, videos, and articles that explore topics such as biodiversity, conservation, and sustainable development.

Keywords: Youth Education, Society, Lesson Plans
Link to Resource: https://www.nationalgeographic.org/society/education-resources/