Supports Curriculum Standards
Science & Tech
Arts Education
Language
Social Studies
Canada (Grades 3-6): Alberta, British Columbia, Manitoba, Saskatchewan and Ontario.
United States (Grades 3-5): Common Core State Standards and Next Generation Science Standards; Florida Sunshine State Standards
Plug & Play! Minimal Prep!
Print Worksheets
Set Up Projector
Let The Website Do The Rest!
How It Works
6 weekly pre-planned modules, at your own pace
Led by a website projected at the front of the class
Students do fun and engaging activities for points
Module at-a-glance (approx.60-75mins)
- 10 Minute Prep
- Video-Led
- Team Activities
- Game Shows
- Music
- Missions
NEW: Activities have been adapted for COVID protocols
What Teachers Say
"My kids were very enthusiastic, engaged and excited! They became leaders and definitely made a difference."
Tammi Remsburg, Concord, NC
"Just press play and it runs itself. It's literally plug and play. You get to ride along with the class and it’s so much fun!"
Shane Hipwell, Abbotsford, BC
"Grab(s) kids by their heartstrings and stirs them up in the best possible way. Authentic learning to navigate and prosper in the world."
Mark Gura, EdTech Digest
A MISSION FOR ZERO WASTE
The Zero Heroes resource inspires students as zero waste superheroes to explore our garbage predicament and change their families’ waste habits!
Modules Overview
Operation Garbage Watch
The adventure begins! Why is garbage a problem? What brings us joy that isn’t about stuff? First mission assignment!
Operation Love Food, Hate Waste
Why and how do we waste perfectly good food? Calculate the relative value of the food families waste. Learn about an Indigenous community with a huge recycling centre in Arizona, and the principle of using every part of what is harvested. Mission 2: Reduce food waste at home.
Operation Food Scraps
Composting and food scraps: why bother? Play a Sorting Game and write a rap about food scraps. Learn about the thousands-of-years-old practice of composting from an Indigenous community in Arizona. Get Mission 3: use your food scraps bin!
Operation Waste-Free Lunch
What is packaging and what problems does it cause? Analyse today’s lunch. Use math to learn about collective impact. Discover how the ancestral Pueblo used nature’s principals to farm in the desert. Make a poster and get Mission 4: have a waste-free lunch.
Operation Buy Smart
Now that we know all this, how can we buy smarter? Brainstorm solutions, create buy-smart guidelines, create skits about impulse shopping, and get Mission 5: teach your families to buy smart!
Operation Green Cycle
Designing following nature’s design. Learning about biomimicry: how can we design like nature does? Learn about making houses from natural materials, from the Pueblo people. Invent a product that uses biomimicry. Through the art of your choice, share your product with the class.
Messages from Mother Earth
Indigenous perspectives on waste
Each week, our young Cree superhero highlights Indigenous-led environmental projects around the world, showing how Indigenous cultural practices and wisdom hold solutions for our waste issues.
Created in consultation and collaboration with Indigenous artists, elders and culture keepers.
Inspires Action on the Sustainable Development Goals
Promotes 21st Century Learning
Facilitates interdisciplinary learning
combining arts, language, science and social studies curriculum
Develops the 4C's
incl. communication, critical thinking, collaboration and creativity
Connects learning to the real world
through fun at-home missions to lead change in families
Meets diverse learning needs
with engaging, arts-based group activities
Helps bring tech into the classroom
in an easy plug & play format, no special equipment needed!