Open Educational Resources for Grade 5 to 7 Environmental and Sustainability Education

British Columbia curriculum analysis of 166 distinct environmental education Open Educational Resources for Grades 5 through 7. The dataset was created by Emily Grady and last updated in May 2026. It includes structured tabular data mapping resources to curriculum pillars like Core Competencies and First People Principles of Learning.

Use Cases

• Filtering educational resources by subject area and grade level suitability for lesson planning.
• Analyzing the coverage of curriculum pillars like Big Ideas and Learning Standards across available OERs.
• Identifying resources by license type for open educational resource repositories.
• Studying the alignment of environmental education topics with provincial competency frameworks.

Strengths

• Contains structured data for 166 distinct educational resources, including lesson and unit plans.
• Includes yes/no evaluations mapping resources to four specific BC curriculum pillars.
• Associated OERs are provided in a zipped folder alongside the tabular analysis.

Limitations

• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
• Last updated 2026-05-09 04:10:21; freshness should be verified.

Provenance

Source

Borealis Harvested Dataverse

Collection Method

Curriculum analysis of resources uploaded to the OER Commons: Climate Hub (BC Collection).

Freshness

Last updated 2026-05-09 04:10:21.

Geography

British Columbia, Canada