Teacher Preparation Package
Green Education
Teachers Preparation Packet
A Fresh Look at Environmental Education Programming
3R’s Program Overview
Goals
Becoming Clean and Green
Program Descriptions
Program Experience and Expectations
Teachers
Students
Pre Presentation Preparations
Key Vocabulary Words
Teachers Pre-Presentation Check List
Contact Information
Registration Form
Schedule
3 R’s Programming
A Fresh Look at Environmental Education Programming
The Brampton Clean City 3 R’s programming is designed with the student in
mind; connecting curriculum based programming to environmental education. 3R’s
education is programming dedicated to the development of young minds through
environmental education. Through 3R’s programming we plan to educate children with
regards to the significance of how their personal ecological footprint effects the
environment around them, and encourage them to make knowledgeable decisions with
regards to personal environmental practices. Brampton Clean City is dedicated to
providing this experience in an exciting, safe, and interactive manner.
We believe that 3r’s education will help aid in the processes of helping
participants live more harmoniously with the earth and the environments it supports. We
work on developing a sense of understanding about the environment of which we are all a
part. We also focus on our personal impact on the environment, making changes in the
way we use things such as: energy, our natural resources, waste, and other related
materials.
PROGRAM OVERVIEW
Goals
To encourage students to examine their personal lifestyle, and encouraging them
to make changes that will reduce his/her impact on our environment.
To provide environmental programming in a fun, safe, and interactive setting.
To encourage participants to become aware of the interconnectedness of
everything, how each thing we do affects many other parts of our eco system.
To help participants develop a personal relationship with the earth and it’s living
things.
To highlight and encourage youth to make smart decisions with regards to
personal environmental decisions.
To educate participants concerning the use of renewable and non-renewable
resources and the consequences of its use/misuse.
BECOMING CLEAN AND GREEN
Fostering a clean and green city is the mission of both The City of Brampton and
The Brampton Clean City Committee. We feel that through the continuing education of
our youth we can reach this goal. The objective of our programming is not to tell our
participants what to think or feel about certain environmental issues or topics, but to plant
the seed of knowledge at a young age, giving these youth the opportunity to make the
educated decisions in the future.
“Much education today is monumentally ineffective. All too often we are giving young
people cut flowers when we should be teaching them to grow their own plants.”
-John W.Gardner
PROGRAM DESCRIPTION
Each program focus on several basic environmental topics and utilizes a teaching
method which uses visuals and activities which are common to everyday life to aid
students in understanding hard-to-understand environmental topics. These programs are
high energy, interactive, and full of visuals, allowing students who find themselves able
to learn best with differing teaching styles to become comfortable with each lesson. The
Clean City Committee also offers other forms of environmental education through a
multitude of different activities and programs. These programs are also listed below.
GREEN EDUCATION PROGRAMMING
Bulb Planting Program
Do you enjoy getting your hands dirty? If so, this fun and interactive program
offers you a chance to work in a hands on setting with other members of your student
body, learning about and planting several different types of vegetation. If you have no
experience in a garden, no worries! Let our trained staff guide you through your
experience and lead you down the road to success.
Waste Audit Program
Ever wonder how much waste your classroom or school produces in a day, week,
or even year? Our waste audit program gives you the chance to find out just this through
weekly audits of your classrooms/schools lunch time waste. This program is in place to
highlight the importance of incorporating Litterless Lunch habits when deciding what our
students bring into the classroom.
Adopt a Park Program
Exercise our green thumb by registering your class/school in our hands on adopt a
park program. This program offers your class/school the chance to call one of our many
City of Brampton Parks home and gives them a chance to help our local environment by
conducting weekly/monthly clean ups. The adopt a park programs offers a hands on
learning experience for all students of any age looking at taking part in keeping Brampton
Clean and Green.
Litterless Lunch Program
The focus of this program is the importance of cutting the amount of waste that
we produce. this will be an introduction to the many ways that students can cut down on
the amount of waste that the produce, as well as the unnecessary waste that surrounds
them in there everyday lives. This program provides an environment in which students
can learn the importance of reducing, reusing, and recycling, and the relationship between
their day-to-day activities and how it affects our environment and nature.
Green Club Program
Would you like help organizing and implementing a green club in your school?
Or maybe you have a group of students who are keen on spreading the word of
environmental awareness! Our Green Club program offers you the chance to set up the
frame work for students who are interested in not only learning about how to keep there
school Clean and Green, but who are interested in taking a hands on approach to
maintaining a healthy environment in and around their school.
Harvest Clean Up Program
Join your city in an effort to clean up its parks and green areas in the month of
October! Register your school group now to take part in our annual Harvest Clean up
program and give your school the opportunity to experience environmental awareness in
a hands on and fun setting! The City of Brampton will graciously supply you with the
materials needed (bags and sanitary gloves) to conduct a safe and successful clean up in
your area. Take park in this effort to keep Brampton Clean and Green, and register now!
Spring Clean Up Program
Join your city in an effort to clean up its parks and green areas in the month of
April! Register your school group now to take part in our annual Spring Clean up
program and give your school the opportunity to experience environmental awareness in
a hands on and fun setting! The City of Brampton will graciously supply you with the
materials needed (bags and sanitary gloves) to conduct a safe and successful clean up in
your area. Take park in this effort to keep Brampton Clean and Green, and register now!
Winter Lights Program
Interested in decorating and personalizing a tree to show off your school pride?
Our Winter Lights Program offers you just this chance! Register your class/school for this
program and get a chance to personalize a tree which will be displayed in our annual
Winter Lights Festival! Don’t miss out on this opportunity to showcase our schools talent
and dedication to our environment!
Environmental Play Day Program
If you are interested in taking some pressure off your shoulders with regards to
programming and facilitating your schools play days, this program is for you! Have our
trained and certified staff program and conduct a play day for you using educational
environmental games and activities.
Youth Ambassadors Program
Interested in gaining some community service hours to put towards your schools
required 40 hours? Join our growing group of volunteers who have already accomplished
over 6500hr’s, in helping keep Brampton beautiful by volunteering your time at several
Brampton City events and functions.
PROGRAM EXPERIENCE AND EXPECTATIONS
TEACHERS
During presentations our trained facilitators will handle the teaching of our
lessons and programs. However, they will still need your assistance with class
supervision and direction. We ask that teachers remain in the classroom or presentation
area for the duration of the presentation.
STUDENTS
During our environmental programming we have a strict policy with regards to
respect. We promote and encourage interactive learning and discussion but we want to
stress that participants must treat the time spend during the program with the same
consideration as they would during regular class hours. Please explain these rules before
the arrival of our staff, this will ensure that each participant is familiarized with our
expectations.
PRE-TRIP PREPARATIONS
3R’S EDUCATION- KEY VOCABULARY WORDS
Below is a lost of works commonly found in many of our programs. Although not
required, you may introduce these words to your students prior to our arrival.
Renewable Energy: Renewable energy sources are sources that once used can come
back or be re-made within a short period of time
Non-Renewable Energy: These energy sources are non-renewable because they cannot
be made again once used.
Solar Power: Power/energy which is formed from a main source (sun).
Reduce: Cut down/lessen the amount of waste you produce.
Reuse: Using materials more then once in order to help cut down on waste in your
household/school.
Recycling: Taking part in reusing or reducing you waste by spiriting and placing
different materials into there specific/designated bins.
Environment: Anything and everything which surrounds you.
Greenhouse Effect: The trapping of heat on earth due to Global Warming.
Compost: The act of placing your left over food waste into a green bin in order to assist
the in production of clean and health soils.
Landfill: An area where waste is dumped and gathered into hills/mounds.
3 R’S EDUCATION- TEACHER PRE-TRIP CHECKLIST
Vocabulary Words- Are the students familiar with the words?
Behaviour- Students are aware of the behavioural expectations.
CONTACT INFORMATION
For More Information on Bookings, Please Contact:
Andrew Stangherlin
City of Brampton-Clean City
Recreation Programmer-Environmental Stewardship
Office: 905-874-3413
Cell: 416-806-0292
Water and Energy Conservation
Program
Junior Kindergarten
Energy and Water Smart
Senior Kindergarten
Energenious
Grade One
Energy and Water Sustainability
Grade Two
Energy and Water Detectives
Grade Three
Energy and Water Systems
Grade Four
Energy and Water Conservation
Grade Five
Energy and Water Management
Grade Six
Energy and water Preservation
Grade Seven
Energy and Water Stewardship
Grade Eight
Energy and Water Interactions
Program Description
Curriculum Connections
Learn the basics of water and energy conservation in our
schools and at home. This fun and interactive program
will focus on the affects or poor water and energy use on
our environment.
Demonstrate and understand of and care for
the natural world.
Participants will investigate his/her own use of water and
the effects of this use or misuse. Students will recognize
different forms of water and energy use, and how these
forms can lead to several problems.
This program focuses on how the misuse of our
resources can affect other forms of life such as plants and
animals. Participants will also come to understand that
humans have a special role in maintaining a healthy
environment through conservation.
This program will exhibit an understanding of the ways
in which resources are used by living things, and
highlights the effects of its misuse. Students will also
investigate different alternatives they may use instead of
draining valuable resources.
This program focuses on highlighting the ways our
different resources affect plants and the animals that
inhabit our ecosystem. Students will learn hat misusing
these resources will affect these systems.
Investigate and talk about the characteristics
and functions of several common materials.
Demonstrate an awareness of natural and
human made environment.
Assess the role of humans in maintaining a
healthy environment.
Understand the basic needs and characteristics
of plants, animals, and humans.
Participants will understand the differences between
renewable and non-renewable resources and analyse the
effects of human activities on different habitats and eco
systems.
This program will focus on the long-term impacts that
poor energy and water conservation will have on our
society as a whole. Students will be educated on what
decisions with regards to resource use; will affect our
eco system in a positive and negative way.
Students will focus on the significant role that energy
and water use has on our environment, specifically its
impact on biodiversity. Participants will discover the
ways they personally add to the problem of poor
resource management.
This program highlights the several different types of
renewable end non-renewable resources available in our
eco system. Students will learn how much water and
energy goes into producing products they use on a daily
basis.
Students will focus on what basic water and energy
needs humans must have to survive and compare these
figures to actual statistics with regards to how much
water we actually use. We will highlight the need to
manage and sustain the resources that are available.
Analyse the effects of human activities on
habitats and communities.
Understanding of different renewable and nonrenewable resources and the effect of their use.
Evaluate the social and environmental impacts
of processes used so sustain everyday
products.
Choices about using energy and resources have
both immediate and long-term impacts.
Humans make choices that can have an impact
on biodiversity.
Electrical energy plays a significant role in
society and its use has environmental impacts.
Demonstrate an awareness of natural and
human made environment.
Demonstrate an understanding of the ways in
which water is used by living things to help
them meet their basic needs.
Assess the ways in which air/water quality has
an impact on living things.
Highlight the way in which human activity has
an effect on plants and their habitats.
Assess the basic needs of plants, animals, and
humans with regards to water consumption.
Assess the impact of human activities and
technologies on the environment.
Investigate interactions within the environment
and the factors that affect its balance.
Fluids are essential to life.
Investigate factors that affect local water
quality.
Water is an important resource that needs to be
managed sustainably.
Global Warming
Program
Junior Kindergarten
Solar Crusaders
Senior Kindergarten
Kids and Climates
Program Description
This program will focus on the basics of global warming
and how this problem affects us individually. Students
will learn what activities and actions, which are done on
a daily basis, add to the problem of global warming.
Recognize and use safely some common forms
of technology
Demonstrate and understand of and care for
the natural world.
Students will learn how the climate changes and adapts
to actions that we exercise on a daily basis. Participants
will learn which materials have a negative effect on our
environment and ecosystem.
Investigate and talk about the characteristics
and functions of several common materials.
Grade One
Solar Pollution
Participants will be taught to recognize that the
responsibility of maintaining a healthy environment
should be a personal goal for each individual. Students
will be taught to recognize actions they perform daily
which add to the problem of global warming.
Grade Two
Climate Crusaders
Students will learn how changes in different aspects of
our environment affect different life systems, and in turn
its chain reaction affect. This program will focus on how
global warming affects our resources such as air and
water.
This program will focus on global warming’s effects on
the way plants and vegetation grow and live. This
program will also highlight the different actions that we
perform that can affect these different forms of
vegetation.
Students will analyse the effects of human activity on
different habitats and eco systems found across north
America. Participants will learn how solar power effects
each environment differently.
This program will focus on the different types of
resources and materials we use that pollute our
ecosystem causing global warming. This program
focuses on our past and how reducing and the use of
these products will benefit our environment.
Students will be taught how exactly global warming
affects the life of not only animals and plants, but our
own. We will highlight the problem with the continuing
use of resources that pollute our air and lessen our
quality of life.
This program will focus on how heat introduced by
global warming effects nature and causes effects which
can be detrimental to our population.
Grade Three
Solar Investigations
Grade Four
Solar Stability
Grade Five
Solar Stewardship
Grade Six
Global Warming
Grade Seven
Climate Sustainability
Grade Eight
Climate Maintenance
Curriculum Connections
Participants will be taught how the affects of global
warning have changes several aspects of our
environment. Students will learn what gases and
pollutants add to the problem of global warming.
Demonstrate an awareness of natural and
human made environment.
The recognition that humans have a special
responsibility for maintaining a healthy
environment.
Humans make choices related to their use of
objects and materials that have different
environmental effects.
Assess how environmental problems affect
different life systems.
Changes in air and water affect living things
and the environment.
Assess how changes in the climate and weather
affect the maturity of plants and animals.
Forces in nature can have a significant impact
on humans and the environment.
Analyse the effects of human activities on
habitats and communities.
Demonstrate an awareness of natural and
human made environment.
Choices about using different types of energy
have both immediate and long-term impacts.
Conservation is one way of reducing the
impacts of using energy and other resources.
Humans make choices that can have an impact
on biodiversity.
Demonstrate the understanding that changes in
human activity has immediate effects on our
environment/biodiversity.
Ecosystems are in constant state of change
caused by nature or by human intervention.
Heat has both a positive and negative effect on
the environment
Assess the impact of human activities and
technologies on the sustainability of our earth.
Highlight that several factors influence the
evolution of different life systems.
3R’s Education
Program
Junior Kindergarten
Litter Critters
Program Description
Curriculum Connections
Students will learn the basics of reducing, reusing, and
recycling and what objects goes into which container.
Participants will learn how poor waste management
skills can affect the environment.
Demonstrate and understand of and care for
the natural world.
Participants will recognize the difference between
reducing, reusing, and recycling and how objects are
managed once they are taken and separated. Students
will learn how miss management of our waste can lead to
environmental problems.
This program discusses the problems with poor waste
management and highlights the need to practice correct
and safe waste management in our schools and at home.
Students will be refreshed on what objects go into what
bins.
This program will highlight and identify the positive and
negative impacts that human activities have on our
ecosystem with regards to waste management. This
program will also highlight what materials that can be
hazardous to individuals, and where these materials go.
Recognize and use safely some common forms
of technology
Grade Three
Pollution Police
Students will learn how poor waste management can lead
to the pollution of our soils and water systems.
Participants will also learn how composting can benefit
the environment, and what steps are needed to practice
safe and effective composting methods.
Grade Four
Environmental Impacts
This program will go in depth with regards to where our
waste goes once it leaves our home and schools and
students will evaluate there habits with regards to
personal waste management.
Participants will have an in depth look at the different
ecosystems which are affected by poor waste
management. Students will also evaluate the social and
environmental impacts these decisions have.
Students will focus on how poor waste management can
lead to poor air and water quality and this program will
also highlight how these problems can affect different
aspects of daily life.
Living things, including humans, interact with
soils and can cause positive or negative
changes.
Assess how composting and other
environmentally friendly actions can affect our
environment.
Analyse the effects of human activities on
habitats and communities.
Demonstrate an awareness of natural and
human made environment.
Choices we make affect our organ systems
and, in turn, our overall health.
Evaluate the social and environmental impacts
of processes used to make everyday products.
Humans make choices that can have an impact
on biodiversity.
Misuse of products or materials can lead to
poor air quality.
Senior Kindergarten
Garbage and You
Grade One
The Reduce, Reuse, Recycle Cycle
Grade Two
Pollution Pals
Grade Five
Waste Management
Grade Six
Environmental Stewardship
Grade Seven
Environmental Maintenance
Grade Eight
Waste and Its Affects
This program deals with the impact of human’s activities
and technologies on the environment and evaluates ways
of controlling these impacts. Students will discover what
materials are safe to dispose of and which are not.
This program focuses on the importance of cutting down
the amount of waste that we produce and the avenues
available with regards to reducing, reusing, and recycling
several materials we use on a daily basis. Students will
be able to recognize that human actions can interfere
with environmental sustainability.
Demonstrate an awareness of natural and
human made environment.
Investigate and talk about the characteristics
and functions of several common materials.
Highlight and recognize that human actions
can interfere with environmental sustainability.
Assess the role of humans in maintaining a
healthy environment.
Identify positive and negative impacts that
different kinds of human activity have on
animals.
Our actions affect the quality of life of all
objects/ecosystems in our environment.
Assess the impact of human’s activities and
technologies on the environment and evaluate
ways of controlling these impacts.
Systems are designed to optimize human and
natural resources.
Highlight and recognize that human actions
can interfere with environmental sustainability.