• Evolution, Diversity and the Sustainability of Life

  The resource consists of a student workbook and an accompanying teacher's guide.  The unit is divided into six lessons, each made up of short readings, classroom activities and questions relating to the three major concepts of evolution, diversity,...

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• Pulling for Biodiversity

  Examples used in "Pulling for Biodiversity" are specific to Ontario. It introduces the concept of invasive species, and explains in an interactive and engaging manner why they are destructive and what can done about them.  Activities: Activity 1....

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• Amphibial Pursuits FrogWatch Teachers’ Guide

  Amphibial Pursuits is the teachers’ guide to Frogwatch a program through which students learn to identify frogs by sound and contribute valuable scientific information to a national amphibian monitoring program.  This guide is a multi-disciplinary...

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• Sorting through Spring

  "Sorting through Spring" is the second book of the "Math in Nature" series and contains the same engaging illustrations and lively prose that were used in the first book "Counting on Fall". In this story children are encouraged to look for patterns in...

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• Sweet Deal

  Developed to support a class excursion to the sugar bush, this resource offers specific suggestions to help link the experience to the curriculum. Prior to the field trip students chart temperatures and predict when the sap will start running.  At...

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• Nature's Partners - Pollination, Plants and You

  This comprehensive set of seven learning modules introduces students to the fascinating relationship between plants and pollinating insects.  Throughout the detailed biological investigation of bees, moths and butterflies there is an emphasis on...

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• The Hidden Beauty of Pollination

  Louie Schwartzberg introduces some "nectar' from his film, The hidden beauty of pollination. The images that follow illustrate his description of pollination as a dance between plants and animals, a love story that feeds the world, a magic moment where...

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• Bumble Bee Watch

  Bumble Bee Watch is a collaborative effort to track and conserve North America's bumble bees. In this community science project, students can: Upload photos of bumble bees to start a virtual bumble bee collection Identify the bumble bees in their photos...

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• Massive Migrations K-8

  The mysteries of bird migration come to life in this activity that takes a class outside to model the movement of North American bird species between their wintering habitat and Arctic nesting grounds. As students "fly" along migration pathways, they...

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• Fly Away Home!

  Bird migration is explored in this lesson that has students creating paper airplane "birds" that must navigate their way through a fragmented landscape as they fly to their breeding grounds. A dynamic approach supports action as learners recognize how...

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• Pollination Power

  In Pollination Power, students will recognize that pollinators play an important role in wild plant growth and food production. They will gain an understanding of the parts of plants involved in pollination and of the way pollinators aid in plant growth...

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• Build a Bird and Bee Bath

  Habitat loss, climate change and pesticide use are contributing to sharp declines in global bird and bee populations.  To protect ecosystems and maintain biodiversity humans must become actively involved in reversing this trend.  This outdoor...

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