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Nutrition and Healthy Living
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Canada's Food Guide
- eat
well with Canada's Food Guide.
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EatTracker
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lets
you track your day's food and activity choices and compares
them to the guidelines laid out by Health Canada.
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Virtual Grocery Store -
here you will learn how you can use the nutrition
information on the label of packaged foods to make healthy
choices for you and your family.
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Virtual Kitchen
- Explore our virtual kitchen by clicking on selected
areas to reveal interesting nutrition facts about the foods
you eat.
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Nutrition Explorations
- explore the world of nutrition with nutrition
explorations
Environmental Links
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One Less Tonne
- The One Less Tonne tool will help you choose actions to meet
the climate change challenge — for each Canadian to cut his or
her annual emissions of greenhouse gases by as much as possible.
With every action you select, the tool will display the emission
reductions you'll achieve (and the money you'll save in energy
costs!).
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Seeds Foundation
- The SEEDS Foundation has been providing bias-balanced,
curriculum-fit energy and environmental education programs for
the past 32 years. These programs have educated, inspired
realistic choices and stimulated action by millions of students
and their families on relevant energy and environmental issues
across Canada.
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Alberta Environment
- Educational Site for Teachers
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Story of Stuff
- A 20-minute animation of the consumerist society, narrated by
Anne Leonard.
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Global Environmental and Outdoor Education
Council (GEOEC)
- a list of organizations that have materials and do
presentations
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David Suzuki's Nature Challenge at School
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We’ve developed the "Nature Challenge Teacher's Guide"--a
comprehensive curriculum resource for grades 4-7. Promote
understanding and encourage informed choices about environmental
conservation.
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FLICK OFF - Who needs to
FLICK OFF? Easy answer: we all do. Everyone from Grandma,
who leaves the bathroom light on all night, to
McInsertBigCorporationHere, who keeps manufacturing without a
care for the consequences their profits make on the environment.
Or you, getting your take-out lunch in styrofoam containers
every day of the week.
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Terry Fox
1.
http://www.collectionscanada.ca
- biography of Terry Fox
2.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terry_Fox
- tons of information about Terry Fox
3.
Terry Fox Humanitarian Award Program
-The Terry Fox Humanitarian Award Program was established in
1982 through a grant by the Government of Canada to commemorate
Terry's courage and tenacity in his cross-Canada Marathon of Hope.
4.
CBC Archives
- listen to radio clips and watch video clips about Terry Fox
5.
More CBC Archives
- Terry Fox 25: Reliving the Marathon of Hope (more radio and
video clips)
6.
Terry Fox Foundation
- The Terry Fox Foundation's mission is to maintain the
vision and principles of Terry Fox while raising money for cancer
research through the annual Terry Fox Run, memoriam donations and
planned gifts
7.
Terry Fox Foundation: Resource Videos
- video clips from "The Life and Times of Terry Fox". Relive
his historic Marathon of Hope with vintage news footage and
interviews from the people who were part of it, including his
family, his best friend Doug Alward, who accompanied Terry in the
van, and hockey star Darryl Sittler.
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