• Explore and Embrace a Special Wild Place: K-4

  Explore and Embrace a Special Wild Place helps students discover their own special wild spaces where they can explore their relationship with the wild. As they come to know the wild creatures that share their space, they'll learn that, although such places...

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• Native Species: Nature's Choice

  This resource examines the impact of invasive species on habitats, biodiversity and the web of life. Five lessons offer hands-on, inquiry-based learning activities to raise student awareness of alien species and the need to restore native species....

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• Explore and Embrace a Special Wild Place: Gr. 6-8

  With these activities the students discover their own special wild spaces, where they can explore their relationship with the outdoors and develop an appreciation for the natural world. In Activity #1, the students take a field trip to find their own...

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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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• Bird Banquets

  The bird-watching activity is a great first step toward getting students outside observing and learning. Students erect a platform birdfeeder and create a viewing center to be able to observe the birds without disturbing them. They watch and identify...

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• Are We Disturbing Birds?

  This outdoor activity has students explore how changes in human land use are impacting bird habitats. Students walk through the community to identify the recent changes that have taken place. Based on their observations, students determine if the changes...

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• Climate Change Challenge

  In this outdoor activity, the students will learn that all living things need a healthy habitat that includes food, water, shelter and space.  They will also learn that climate change may threaten the delicate balance of nature. The students will...

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• Natural Inquirer

  During this lesson plan, students will be using research techniques to learn about an animal or plant affected by climate change. The main purpose of this activity is for students to appreciate the wide range of life forms in Canada that must adapt, relocate,...

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• Climate Change and Your Ecological Area

  In Climate Chance and Your Ecological Area, students will investigate interrelationships among plants and animals in an ecosystem and explore how climate change might affect those interrelationships and the natural community as a whole. By the end of...

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• Friends or Foes

  During this activity, students will learn, compare and classify native and non-native species. Once students have a better understanding about invasive species, they will then participate in a classroom debate about the differences between them, their...

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• Assess Your Habitat’s Health

  After reviewing the concept of an ecozone, students are provided with a template for researching and assessing the overall health of their own ecozones. After completing an analysis of their findings, students prescribe “treatments” to cure...

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• Accidental Travelers

  In the activity "Accidental Travelers" students learn the ways in which non-native species inadvertently travel and can spread after entering ecosystems. The activity begins with an invasive species card matching game where the students will match an...

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