Resource 10: The Evergreen Brick Works

Home. (2020). Retrieved December 08, 2020, from https://www.evergreen.ca/

    Evergreen Brick Works is an organization located in Eastern Canada. They are committed to providing teachers as well as members of the community with practical ideas for teaching and implementing sustainability. Along with teaching sustainability, they also focus on providing resources for climate change. On top of demonstrating how to teach it, they include methods for adjusting your classrooms to the realities of climate change. There are resources included on their website called “Five Ways School Grounds are Adapting for a Changing Climate”, “Community Solutions Network”, “The Evergreen Story: How tree planting led the way to making cities flourish”. All of these resources are a blend of informative and realistically hopeful. As students become more aware of the increasing geographic changes in the world, it is important to recognize that at some point they may feel as though they’re generation is doomed and start to question the point of planning a future. This resource equips teachers with insightful ways to provide students with an alternative view of their future by showing them ways to adapt and then make their future brighter.


Click here to go to their website! The Evergreen

Hey there! My name is Jordyn but my friends call me Jords. I am currently a student at UBC in their Bachelor of Education Secondary School Program. It's a bit of a mouthful but basically - I want to teach high schoolers. I currently love watching A LOT of Christmas Hallmark movies. I also love sunflowers and being outside which is probably why I wanted to find a bunch of resources that can help me teach my future students about protecting the earth. So welcome here, I hope you find something useful here!

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