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Create a Map for Birds
2025-12-05
Students will complete a creative master map (example) that is a mural, map, exhibit, and display all rolled into one! The master map will integrate what students learn about birds from activities in this kit
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Create an "Underwater" Display
2025-12-05
Students plan, prepare and present a hands-on or an electronic display on an ocean and watershed theme. They may also share their displays with other schools through CWF Education and other media.
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Create a Wild Adventure
2025-12-05
This activity leads students to research a trip to one of Canada’s protected areas.
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Create Edge Habitat
2025-12-05
Edges are wonderful examples of biodiversity in action. They are areas where one type of habitat meets and blends with another.
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Create Hands-on or Electronic Northern Waters Presentations
2025-12-05
Students plan, prepare and present a hands-on or an electronic display on a northern ocean and rivers theme. They may also share their displays with other schools through this website and other media.
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Create Wildlife Habitat
2025-12-05
Trees provide a remarkable selection of food and shelter for countless wildlife species; enhance and beautify the landscape; cut down pollution by absorbing carbon dioxide and releasing clean air and water; prevent soil erosion caused by wind and water; buffer noise by absorbing and deflecting sound; and save energy spent on heating and air-conditioning by blocking winter winds and providing summer shade.
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Design a Shelter
2025-12-05
Groups of students design a shelter for an imaginary animal and then present their designs to the class.
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Dinner Time
2025-12-05
In this card game, students take turns selecting cards from a centre pile until they have a complete set of winter “needs” for their species.
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Discover and Explore a Special Space
2025-12-05
Students take a field trip into the schoolyard or a local park to find their special wild space and begin to get to know it. Students use observation and structured activities to develop a relationship with the space and record their observations, thoughts, and feelings.
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Discover Local Ocean Threats
2025-12-05
In this mapping activity, students research and visit local waterways.
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Discover the Ocean
2025-12-05
Healthy oceans offer us a treasure trove of biodiversity that we tend to take for granted.
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Discover Your Ocean Connections
2025-12-05
Students create a personal mind map of their connections to the ocean, based on a resource sheet and class discussion.
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Discover Your Path to the Ocean
2025-12-05
In this three-part activity, students use various resources to trace the surface waters that connect their community to the ocean, to other communities along their watershed, and to ocean wildlife.
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Don't Dump on Wildlife
2025-11-28
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Educate Your Community
2025-12-05
So you've decided to create an ecology study centre in your schoolyard. You can use this chance to do some teaching yourselves! Let the community know what you're up to and how important it is that we all practise sustainable development.
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Encourage Community Action
2025-12-05
Here are some ideas on how to encourage the participation of people from outside your classroom.
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Examine Your Ecozone
2025-12-05
This activity will help you assess your ecozone’s general vitality and then prescribe "treatments" to cure ill health.
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Facilitating Personal Experiences in the Outdoors
2025-12-05
Here are some basic guidelines for taking students on a local field trip where they can develop this important personal connection to nature.
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Facts and Falsehoods
2025-12-05
Students develop criteria for evaluating the quality, balance, and fairness of informational items representing views about climate change. They then review materials on the basis of their criteria, develop informational presentations, and report back to the class.
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Fish Stories
2025-12-05
A1: Students will listen to and share stories about fishes, and process the results through discussion, reading, personal writing, build models or illustrations in this introductory activity.
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Freshwater – Our Living Link with the Ocean
2025-12-05
Your community is one of thousands sprinkled across a huge mass of mountains, hilltops, flat lands, and wetlands.
