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Test for Water Quality
2025-11-28
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The Global Aquatic Ecosystem
2025-12-05
All land is divided into watersheds — that is, areas of land that drain into particular bodies of water.
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The Great Round-Table Debate
2025-12-05
Students role-play a round-table discussion about human use of a local watershed.
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The Heat is On
2025-12-05
When we chop down forests, pave over wetlands, and pollute our lakes and seas, we deprive terrestrial and aquatic plants of their power to absorb greenhouse gases and keep the planet's climatic system in balance.
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The Northern Community
2025-12-05
The projects in this section are designed especially — but not exclusively — for residents of northern communities.
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The Ocean Threats Scavenger Hunt
2025-12-05
How many of these ocean threats can you find in your community?
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The Science of Pollination Primer
2025-12-05
Not all plants are seed-producing plants (known as spermatophytes) but most fall into two major groups: the flowering plants and the conifers. Of the more than 230,000 known species of plants worldwide, about 200,000 are flowering plants; another 500 are conifers while others include such plants as ferns and mosses. Most seed-producers owe their great success, in part, to pollination.
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Think Like an Astronaut
2025-11-28
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Threats to the Ocean from Your Backyard
2025-12-05
Human activities are threatening the world's oceans.
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Treatment Plant
2025-11-28
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Troubled Water, Troubled Times
2025-12-05
Climate change resulting from human activities could be the greatest environmental threat facing life on this planet.
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Turn Grey Zones into Green Zones
2025-12-05
More than likely, there’s a monoculture near you — even in your schoolyard or a nearby park. Think of ways to boost biodiversity there.
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Turn the Tide on Pollution
2025-12-05
For many marine migrants, the deep blue sea is becoming a deadly obstacle course, as solid waste and land-based pollution become unwelcome travelling companions.
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Use Water Webisodes as Learning Tools
2025-12-05
By viewing short online webisodes about water and the wildlife that live in aquatic ecosystems, students will become more aware of important water issues and how they can take action to improve the health of Canada’s water bodies, including oceans.
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Watery Worlds
2025-12-05
Each part of a wetland ecosystem is needed for the whole system, or organism, to work.
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Weighing the Evidence
2025-12-05
Students undertake research to gain a basic knowledge of climate change and to understand why there is debate about its validity, causes, and impacts on aquatic and terrestrial ecosystems.
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Wetlands are Wonderful
2025-11-28
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What are Wetlands Worth?
2025-11-28
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What Governments Do
2025-12-05
There are a number of ways that governments protect areas in Canada's North.
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What Harms Ocean Life?
2025-12-05
Oceans seem too huge to harm, don't they? But we humans are actually making our oceans sick.
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What is Climate Change?
2025-12-05
Have you noticed that the summers are getting longer and hotter, the winters shorter and milder? Maybe you think that's a change for the better. Think again.
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Where Does Water Go?
2025-11-28
