Salmonids in the Classroom is a comprehensive, year-long program in which students learn about the life-cycle of salmon, how they interact with their environment and the relationship (both positive and negative) between salmon and humans. Students...
The unit, Biodiversity:The Spice of Life, provides activities to launch a unit, school theme, and/or to help integrate biodiversity concepts across curriculum. Activity ideas include a focus on: Student Experience Interviewing Artistic Representations First...
Sila Alangotok- Inuit Observations on Climate Change is a teacher’s guide to the video of the same name that chronicles the work of Canadian researchers who spent a year in Sach’s Harbour learning about the effects of climate change from the...
Canada’s Forest & Wetlands: Our Natural Water Filters, Volume 6 is a K to 12 teaching kit that explores the role our forests play in sustaining freshwater resources. The final five of the eight lessons in the kit are appropriate for use...
"Connections: The Basics of Biodiversity Module 2" is part of a larger resource entitled Backyard Biodiversity and Beyond. Module 2 is an interesting and engaging action project resource which contains messages and activities about the nature and value...
Growing Poems encourages students to reflect on their gardening experiences through reading and writing different styles of poetry. The project offers excellent background information, several supplementary resources and an interactive,...
This exciting resource focuses on salmon biology and stewardship. It adopts an ecological approach and teaches students how to "take care in their own lives so that salmon thrive!" Throughout the resource students will document...
The activities in Five Minute Field Trips are grouped into three sections: Awareness, Understanding and Action. The Awareness section consists of outdoor activities that are sensory and experiential giving kids a chance to reconnect with the...
Students read, discuss and make decisions about hypothetical dilemmas concerning wildlife and natural resources. The activities are designed to give students the opportunity to examine their own values and beliefs and make reasoned judgements related...
Students and teachers are encouraged to complete these activities in conjunction with a larger seashore study, where students have the opportunity to visit the seashore and make observations at various times throughout the unit. Students take part in...
A series of sequential lessons designed to help students and teachers understand the impacts of invasive species on habitats and ecosystems, and provide tools and strategies to help stop the spread of invasive species. Students will: create a song to...
How The Bat Came to Be is part of a compilation entitled Keepers of the Night which provides an integrated approach to teaching the mystery and fascination of the animals, plants, and insects that inhabit the world of night. Through the use of Native...
Moth, The Fire Dancer is part of a compilation entitled Keepers of the Night which provides an integrated approach to teaching the mystery and fascination of the animals, plants, and insects that inhabit the world of night. Through the use of Native North...
Oot-Kwah-Tah, the Seven Star Dancers is part of a compilation entitled Keepers of the Night which provides an integrated approach to teaching the mystery and fascination of nocturnal animals, insects as well as the constellations of the night sky. Through...
Chipmunk and the Owl Sisters is part of a compilation entitled Keepers of the Night which provides an integrated approach to teaching the fascination of stories and activities around the campfire. Through the use of Native North American stories,...
How Grizzly Bear Climbed the Mountain is part of a compilation entitled Keepers of the Night which provides an integrated approach to teaching the fascination of stories and activities around the nocturnal environment. Through the use of Native...
Celebration is part of a compilation entitled Keepers of the Animals which provides an integrated approach to the concepts of wildlife ecology and environmental and stewardship issues concerning animals, habitat, and natural history. Through the use of...
Vision is part of a compilation entitled Keepers of the Animals which provides an integrated approach to the concepts of wildlife ecology and environmental and stewardship issues concerning animals, habitat, and natural history. Through the use of Native...
Feathers and Fur, Scales and Skin is part of a compilation entitled Keepers of the Animals which provides an integrated approach to the concepts of wildlife ecology and environmental and stewardship issues concerning animals, habitat, and natural history....
This resource is part of a compilation entitled Keepers of the Animals which provides an integrated approach to the concepts of wildlife ecology and environmental and stewardship issues concerning animals, habitat, and natural history. Through the...