What a year for the 2020 Classroom Energy Diet Challenge!
A teacher’s strike. A pandemic. Extended school closures. Teaching and learning from a distance. Despite more than a few obstacles, the 2020 Classroom Energy Diet Challenge (CEDC) has ended on a high note! Teachers and students persevered through these difficulties and worked incredibly hard to learn about energy, both in the classroom and at home. …
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Earth Day in the home
On April 22, 1970, 20 million Americans took to the streets to protest the treatment of the environment. This was the first Earth Day, which is now a global event. Wednesday April 22, 2020 marks the 50th anniversary of Earth Day, and this year’s theme is climate action. With the current situation of the COVID-19…
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Change: Reaching Positive Momentum
Change is hard, but it can also be exciting, motivating and rewarding to encourage and support positive change. Investing effort into making positive changes for our planet is worth every challenge. Thank you for participating in the Classroom Energy Diet Challenge, and for your commitment to change. Thank you, teachers, for your support to encourage…
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Citizen Challenge #2: Get Growing
We are inviting all Canadians to take on this simple, spring-themed Citizen Challenge! Trees and plants clean our air, provide shelter for wildlife, provide medicinal ingredients and food, and help to regulate air temperature in cities. With this in mind, we’re encouraging Canadians to consider their spring gardening plans and channel their green thumbs. Modeled…
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Citizen Challenge #1: What’s For Lunch?
We are calling all Canadians to take on this Citizen Challenge! Have you ever thought about the distance the food you eat travels from its source to your plate? The farther something has to travel, the larger its carbon footprint. For the first Citizen Challenge, we are encouraging Canadians to grab their recipe books and…
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The Citizen Challenges are back!
For the ninth year in a row, classrooms from across Canada have participated in the Classroom Energy Diet Challenge by completing its various challenges and exploring all things energy-related! What is energy? How do we use it? And what can we do to ensure that Canadians and the rest of the world are making efforts…
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Earth Hour
This year, Earth Hour, one of the largest environmental movements in the world, is happening on Saturday, March 28, 2020, at 8:30 p.m. your local time. Did you know that the first Earth Hour took place in Australia on March 31, 2007? This Saturday will mark the 13th year that people in more than 180…
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World Water Day
This article was updated from one originally published on March 22, 2018. March 22nd, 2020 is World Water Day, a day dedicated to celebrating a resource on which every living creature on the planet depends. Water is the source of life and this goes beyond just biology. It permeates every part of…
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2020 Energy Educator of the Year Award
This year, Canadian Geographic Education and Shell Canada want to recognize two teachers by presenting each of them with an Energy Educator of the Year Award. This award acknowledges hard-working Classroom Energy Diet Challenge teachers who have participated enthusiastically in the Challenge and who have shown a commitment to fostering energy literacy in their school…
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Video Challenge: Tips, tricks and reminders!
The Video Challenge is a fun and engaging way for students to get creative with technology while creating a public service announcement about ways to save energy. This can be an exciting challenge for your students, so we have come up with some tips, tricks and reminders to help your class get started. Tips and…
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