1. Rising Sea Levels
1.1. Social Studies
1.1.1. Grade 5 OE B1: assess responses of governments in Canada, including First Nations, Métis, and Inuit governments, to some significant issues, and develop plans of action for governments and citizens to address social and environmental issues
1.2. Science and Technology
1.2.1. Grade 2 OE 2: Investigate the characteristics of air and water and the visible/invisible effects of and changes to air and/or water in the environment
2. Pollution
2.1. Science and Technology
2.1.1. Grade 1 OE 1: Assess the role of humans in maintaining a healthy environment
2.2. Arts
2.2.1. Grade 5 OE D 2. Reflecting, Responding, and Analysing: Apply the critical analysis process (see pages 23–28) to communicate feelings, ideas, and understandings in response to a variety of art works and art experiences
2.3. Physical Education
2.3.1. Grades 1-6 OE D3. demonstrate the ability to make connections that relate to health and well-being – how their choices and behaviours affect both themselves and others, and how factors in the world around them affect their own and others’ health and well-being
2.4. Social Studies
2.4.1. Grade 1 OE B1: Describe some aspects of the interrelationship between people and the natural and built features of their community, with a focus on how the features of and services in the community meet people’s needs
3. Wildfires
3.1. Language
3.1.1. Grade 3 OE 1: Read and demonstrate an understanding of a variety of literary, graphic, and informational texts, using a range of strategies to conduct meaning
3.2. Science and Technology
4. Extreme Weather Changes
4.1. Social Studies
4.1.1. Grade 2 OE A2: use the social studies inquiry process to investigate aspects of the interrelationship between the natural environment, including the climate, of selected communities and the ways in which people in those communities live
4.2. Mathematics
4.3. Science and Technology
4.3.1. Grade 1 OE 2. Investigate daily and seasonal changes
5. Deforestation
5.1. Social Studies
5.1.1. Grade 3 OE B2: use the social studies inquiry process to investigate some of the environmental effects of different types of land and/or resource use in two or more Ontario municipal regions, as well as some of the measures taken to reduce the negative impact of that use
5.1.2. Grade 4 OE B1: assess some key ways in which industrial development and the natural environment affect each other in two or more political and/or physical regions of Canada
5.2. Language
5.3. Science and Technology
5.3.1. Grade 4 OE 1: Analyse the effects of human activities on habitats and communities
5.4. Mathematics
6. Increasing Temperatures
6.1. Mathematics
6.1.1. Grade 3 Measurement OE 1: Estimate, measure, and record length, perimeter, area, mass, capacity, time, and temperature using standard units
6.2. Science and Technology
6.3. Mathematics
7. Harmful Emissions
7.1. Science and Technology
7.1.1. Grade 2 OE 1: Assess ways in which the actions of humans have an impact on the quality of air and water, and ways in which the quality of air and water has an impact on living things
7.2. Social Studies
7.2.1. Grade 4 OE B2: use the social studies inquiry process to investigate some issues and challenges associated with balancing human needs/wants and activities with environmental stewardship in one or more of the political and/or physical regions of Canada
7.2.2. Grade 6 OE B2: use the social studies inquiry process to investigate some global issues of political, social, economic, and/or environmental importance, their impact on the global community, and responses to the issues
7.3. Health and Physical Education
7.3.1. Grades 1-6 OE D3: Demonstrate the ability to make connections that relate to health and well-being – how their choices and behaviours affect both themselves and others, and how factors in the world around them affect their own and others’ health and well-being