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Boost the Boreal Forest
2025-12-05
Students investigate the importance of the Boreal forest region to wildlife, and birds in particular, and organize a display to make others aware of their findings.
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Buddy Up to Birds
2025-12-05
Students will research different areas of Canada and become familiar with some species of birds that these areas support.
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Build Life-Support Systems
2025-12-05
Every time you improve habitat, you are helping to build critical life-support systems for a host of wild creatures.
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Build Your Team
2025-12-05
Team building is important. More can be accomplished by a group than by individuals, and members feel that they are making a real contribution. Working with a small team, or even with just a buddy, will instill a sense of pride in your project and, even more importantly, in your community.
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Canada's Changing North
2025-12-05
Canada's northern environment, wildlife and people are facing major changes. Global climate change, caused mainly by our urbanized activities in the south, is predicted to have its greatest impact in this region.
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Canada — an Ocean Community
2025-12-05
What is a community? It’s a collection of living things, joined by interrelationships and interdependencies.
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Canada is an Ocean Community
2025-12-05
Every single community in Canada is linked to the sea through the never-ending flow of water in streams, rivers, wetlands, ponds, and lakes.
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Canadian Action Makes Waves for Oceans
2025-12-05
Environmental problems not only cross national boundaries, but also the boundaries between federal and provincial jurisdictions.
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Celebrate Canada's North
2025-12-05
Perhaps you regard the North as a cold, harsh environment. Or maybe you already know that it is a fascinating world, inhabited by spectacularly resilient plants and animals adapted to some of the most extreme conditions on the planet.
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Celebrate With an Oceans Festival
2025-12-05
Students of all ages prepare a celebration of Oceans Day, June 8.
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Clean Getaway
2025-12-05
This is an active simulation game, best done outdoors. Students work in teams to deliver a container of clean water from an inland community, down a river, to an ocean creature.
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Climate Change, Sea Change
2025-12-05
Today, the world is heating up faster than at any other time in 10,000 years. Global temperatures have risen significantly since the start of the Industrial Revolution in the early 1700s.
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Climate Change and Your Ecological Area
2025-12-05
Students 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.
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Climate Change Challenge
2025-12-05
Students role-play caribou and habitat components to demonstrate the impacts of climate change on the Arctic tundra.
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Climate Connections
2025-12-05
Using picture cards, students play a variety of non-competitive games that explore the connections between human actions, climate change, and positive and negative impacts on wildlife habitat.
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Climate Watch
2025-12-05
Students participate in a national survey of bioindicators of climate change by gathering data on local plants and animals.
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Community Action Makes a World of Difference for Wildlife
2025-12-05
You can think of a natural community as all the plants and animals in a particular habitat that are bound together by food-chains and other interactions.
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Connecting Special Places
2025-12-05
This is a physically challenging team game in which students role-play a wild animal and work to connect four wild spaces that represent the animal's key habitat needs.
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Conserve a Flyway
2025-12-05
Countless thousands of winged wanderers need places to rest and refuel as they commute between Canadian breeding grounds and wintering habitats in the United States and Central and South America.
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Conserve Corridors
2025-12-05
As human developments continue to dice, mince, and pulverize natural areas, the need for connectivity between fragmented habitats becomes more vital.
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Conserve the Arctic Marine Ecosystem
2025-12-05
You can help prevent or slow the pace of such long-range impacts by doing the classroom activities and ocean action projects in this section.
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Cool Wildlife Interviews
2025-12-05
Students conduct imaginary interviews with northern wildlife species, researching and presenting answers to a set of questions in an interview format.
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Create a Hands-on or Electronic Watershed Display
2025-12-05
Students plan, prepare and present a hands-on or an electronic display on a theme related to watersheds. They may also bring the display and its messages to the attention of other schools through the CWF website and other media.
