• Biodiversity: The Spice of Life (Module 1)

  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...

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• Connections: The Basics of Biodiversity- Module 2

  "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...

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• Carbon Cycles!

  In this active game, students follow the path of carbon through the carbon cycle to learn where carbon is stored and how it circulates. In the first round of the game, students move from one component of the Earth to the next, discovering there are short...

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• Dinner for Two

  In the core activity of this resource students participate in a game that simulates the impact that invasive species can have on an ecosystem.  Classmates take on the roles of the key components making up the food web found in Okanagan Lake, BC.  ...

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• Flying Over Watersheds

  In this activity students will use Google Earth to get a ‘birds-eye’ view of their local watershed.  The lesson explores what constitutes a watershed, the many important functions they perform and the need to protect them.  Depending...

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• Maple Trees and Marmots

  Maple Trees and Marmots is a role playing game for younger elementary students where students learn the effects of climate change on animals and plants.  There are two activities in the resource: the first focuses on animals and is intended for K-2...

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• Observing Change

  In this outdoor activity, students will complete a series of neighborhood walks with an observation chart over a period of a few months to predict and observe changes in living and non-living components of the local ecosystems in order to understand the...

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• Mr. Bullfrog

  Students participate in a game in which native frogs and bullfrogs compete for shelter, food, and water (habitat components). This game teaches students about the relationship between an animal and its habitat, and what effect introduced animals can have...

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• Greenhouse Gas Game

  Through interactive play on a life-sized game board, students are introduced to three of the most common greenhouse gases and their role in the natural and enhanced greenhouse effect. Teams add or remove greenhouse gases from their shared atmosphere to...

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• The Role of CO2

  In this simulation, students take on the roles of different components of the earth’s surface and atmosphere in order to demonstrate in concrete terms, the greenhouse effect and how human activity is affecting it.  Designed to be played indoors...

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• Carbon - The Short and the Long

  This fun outdoor game introduces students to the importance of Carbon as a building block of all life and the fundamental role of the carbon cycle in sustaining a healthy planet. As the class moves carbon particles between air, plants, animals and soil...

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• Winter Storms

  Major snowfalls are generally associated with winter storm systems that move across the country. The purpose of this exercise is to demonstrate the relationship between the areas of heavy snowfall and the movement of the winter cyclone air masses. Students...

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• Be a Biodiversity Detective

  In this outdoor investigation students will further their understanding of the concept of species diversity within and between ecosystems. Working in small teams, they first document the biodiversity of wildlife in the schoolyard by selecting and mapping...

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