• Five Minute Fieldtrips

  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...

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• Fall Monarch Migration

  This resource engages students in a study of wildlife migration by tracking the fall flight of monarch butterflies to Mexico. Using an on-line tool, Canadian students track monarch butterfly sightings in early fall, along with students from the United...

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• Counting on Fall

  This delightful picture book uses nature to engage students in learning about number concepts including more or less, counting and simple addition.  The reader is first asked to imagine that nature can count and use math like we do.  Then on...

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• A Tree is Nice

  Inspired by the book "A Tree is Nice" by Janice May Udry, this resource engages students in learning about the special characteristics of trees that makes them so important to both humans and the environment.  With an emphasis on taking students...

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• The Monarch Migration

  In this engaging simulation, students become monarch butterflies and experience the challenges of the fall journey to Mexico.  After discussing what migration is and why different species migrate, students follow a script that introduces different...

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• Providing a Backyard Feeding Station for Birds

  This easy to implement activity provides students and teachers with a blueprint for building a winter bird-feeding station.  Using readily available and inexpensive materials, students create different types of feeders to attract a variety of over-wintering...

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• Count Down to Fall

  The simple rhymes of this delightful book use fall leaves to teach children how to count backwards from ten to one.  Each colourful illustration includes pictures of the tree being described and features a wildlife species that depends on forest...

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• Area and Perimeter of Leaves

  This innovative activity pairs nature and math to reinforce key concepts related to surface area and perimeter.  Students locate leaf specimens and then use rulers, string and graph paper to calculate the area and perimeter of each sample. 

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• Leaf Magic

  In this fall activity, children adopt a tree and observe it throughout September and October. The goal is to deepen students' awareness of individual trees and encourage a greater understanding and appreciation of their local environment.  Students...

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• Here Today, Gone Tomorrow: Saving Migratory Animals

  The objective of Here Today, Gone Tomorrow:Saving Migratory Animals is to determine the migratory path for a bird species and investigate whether the habitats in its summer and winter location are similar or different. Based on this information, students...

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• Nature Walk

  In this activity, students will familiarize themselves with the living and the non-living things in nature. The class will listen to a read aloud of seasonal story and then anticipate what they may encounter on their nature walk.  The class will...

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• Signs of Fall

  Students participate in a guided walk through the schoolyard, their neighbourhood or any area where there are trees and signs of fall are evident.  Prior to the outing, students learn about some of the differences between evergreen and deciduous...

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• Nature Memory Game

  A walk in a local green space becomes a lesson in concentration as students use their senses to recognize specific natural objects. Critical thinking skills are used to sort and identify leaves using characteristics like texture, smell and shape. This...

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• Bird Migration Game

  This activity brings home the concept of how far and how arduous this annual migration is for birds. It is a role play activity of sorts where the participants are specific bird species that must leave their breeding ground get to their wintering ground...

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• Go Outside Cards

  Technology has certainly had many positive impacts on the modern world. However, increased interest in indoor pastimes like video games means that children spend much less time exploring and playing outside. Nature is an outstanding educator that builds...

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