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Calgary Captured is a multi-year wildlife monitoring program run in partnership with the City of Calgary, Miistakis Institute, Friends of Fish Creek Provincial Park Society, and Weaselhead/Glenmore Park Preservation Society. The program aims to increase knowledge on our urban wildlife to inform development and management decisions, as well as to engage the community to spread awareness of wildlife.
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Canadian Wildlife Federation
The Canadian Wildlife Federation’s WILD Education and Below Zero programs are targeted to educators tasked with developing a conservation ethic in the classroom. Our website is a resource-rich platform you can access for a variety of materials you can use to inspire your students. |
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Toronto Outdoor Education Schools has put together a searchable database of outdoor education activities for all grades and subject areas. |
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The Outdoor Education Toolkit for Grade 9 to 12 was developed to enrich and promote a culture of safety-mindedness, increase teacher awareness, confidence, and preparedness to teach outdoor education safety and risk management, and increase student awareness, confidence, and preparedness about outdoor education safety and risk management. |
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Ask Nature provides a variety of biomimicry and engineering unit plans, lesson plans, and design challenges. The website also features professional development online courses to help teachers embark on design challenges with their students. |
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Call of the Wetlands
Launched in April 2017, Call of the Wetland challenged Calgarians to regularly monitor 52 urban wetlands for amphibians as an indicator of wetland health. After three seasons, data collection ended in August 2019. A Story Map was created on ArcGIS Online to tell the story of Call of the Wetland and show initial results. Use the maps with your students to discover amphibians in Calgary's wetlands and the locations they have been spotted. This data will be used to inform land development and management decisions. |
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Wetlands 101 features eleven 5-7 minute videos regularly updated with the most current information about wetlands and Alberta’s policies. Students will receive a certificate of completion for obtaining a minimum of 80% on each of the chapter quizzes. Alternatively, students have the option of taking the course for “fun” with no evaluations after viewing each video. So sit back, plug in your headphones, and get ready to learn about some of Alberta’s most valued ecosystems!
Topics explored during the course can be found here. |
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Sharing Nature with Children® sparked a worldwide revolution that connected millions of parents, educators, and children with nature. |
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Childhood by Nature was created by parents simply to make it easier for all of us to raise our kids the way nature intended. With an awareness of the natural world, more balanced, calmer and with all of our senses.
We’re committed to getting our own kids’ childhood back into nature and have read countless studies, news pieces, blog posts. We’ve screened every suggested activity with a “real life” filter taking into account busy schedules, competing screen time, the gargantuan effort it can take to get kids outside. |
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Forest Ontario has some interesting PDF's for educators interested in orienteering and learning more about trees.
You can find this information on their Education and Awareness page |
Virtual Fieldtrips
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Exploring by the Seat of Your Pants
Exploring By The Seat Of Your Pants aims to inspire the next generation of scientists, explorers and conservationists. We do this by bringing science, exploration, adventure and conservation live into classrooms through virtual speakers and field trips with leading experts across the globe. |
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Skype in the Classroom
Teachers can create an account for free on Skype in the Classroom and request virtual field trips for their class! Field trip topics include animals, ecology and conservation, and history and culture. Search by subject, age group, and location. |
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The Bow Habitat Station is excited to announce the launch of a range of webinars for school-aged children. Whether you choose to participate from the classroom or the living room, they’ll bring the learning to you! |
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Join Explorer Classroom — a live YouTube show that connects young people with Explorers around the world — to hear behind-the-scenes stories and interact in real time. All events are free, open to the public, and come with an event guide to help you get the most out of your experience.
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Skype a Scientistwww.skypeascientist.com/ creates a database of thousands of scientists and helps them connect with teachers, classrooms, groups, and the public all over the globe. We want to give students the opportunity to get to know a real scientist and get the answers to their questions straight from the source.
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Suggested Apps
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Pl@ntNet is an app to help to identify plants with pictures. It makes it very easy and fun to identify plant species anywhere in the world!
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