Government of Canada
Transport Canada Civil Aviation Learning Services
Aircraft Certification Orientation Course
This one-day course familiarizes participants with their role at Transport Canada Civil Aviation and how it relates to aircraft certification. It includes self-paced, downloadable units and workplace tasks.
Parks Canada
Classroom Activities on the American Eel in Atlantic Canada
This list of eight classroom activities from grades 4 to 12 is based on Parks Canada’s American Eel Information Sheet. Based on recent pedagogical trends, they include learning outcomes, curriculum links, and a brief description of the activity.Image provided by Parks Canada. American Eel (Anguilla rostrata), Kouchibouguac National Park, Photo: Denis Doucet, © Parks Canada.
Trends in Education Today: Grades 4 to 12 Pedagogy and Resources in Canada
This report reveals emerging national trends in pedagogical practices and educational resources as they relate to grades four to twelve history, social and natural sciences in all regions of Canada including northern audiences and First Nations, Métis and Inuit. In order to elicit both the theoretical and applied knowledge-base in the field of education today, research included both an extensive literature review and interviews. It highlights emerging instructional strategies, factors for creating a positive learning environment, approaches for measuring student learning and the nature of both mainstream and cutting-edge educational resources.Collaborator: Susan Gesner, Gesner & Associates Environmental Learning
“Flights of Fancy” Lesson Plan & Classroom Materials
“Flights of Fancy” is an interdisciplinary lesson plan in which students relive moments from the life and research of Alexander Graham Bell. It features a role play, kite design, and constructivist kite-building activity where students explore forces, flight, and the value of asking questions. Available online on the Parks Canada Teacher Resource Center.Collaborator: Susan Gesner, Gesner & Associates Environmental Learning
Image provided by the Alexander Graham Bell National Historic Site of Canada. © Parks Canada.
Environment Canada
Sustainability Study for Projects Funded by Environment Canada
This study explored the longer-term impacts, benefits, and sustainability of Environment Canada’s EcoAction Community Funding Program and the Environmental Damages Fund. The data and conclusions from a literature review, in-depth consultations, data analysis, interviews, questionnaires, and site visits, were detailed in three reports, their associated infographics and a cumulative presentation.
Collaborators: Susan Gesner, Gesner & Associates Environmental Learning
Air Quality Health Index Learning Stations and Flash Application Review
Educators can choose from six 30-minute learning centres for their grade 5 or 6 students, building skills in literacy, communication, reflection, and problem-solving. Developed directly from provincial and territorial curriculum documents, topics include: ways to prepare for and predict various weather and/or air quality conditions, how media, peers and family affect decisions, outdoor safety, and environmental health issues.
Collaborator: Susan Gesner, Gesner & Associates Environmental Learning
Skywatchers Weather Learning Stations
This resource engages students through six 30-minute learning centers or stations designed to introduce key Canadian curricular weather concepts in a variety of learning styles. From storytelling to experimental design, this collaborative learning experience is hands-on, creative, real-world and involves technology. Science topics include fronts, properties of air, energy from the sun, weather instruments, weather reports and air pressure.
Collaborator: Susan Gesner, Gesner & Associates Environmental Learning
The Regeneration of Environment Canada’s Educational Resources: Adapting for the Future
This three-tiered project developed an adaptation model and guide that Environment Canada can use to help make their educational resources more consistent and appropriate for educators. It involved an extensive review of five educational resources from across Canada, identifying EC themes in curricular units for each province and territory, and developing the final model using input from a workshop with key EC representatives.
Collaborator: Susan Gesner, Gesner & Associates Environmental Learning
A Scan of the Formal Education System in Atlantic Canada and Environment Canada’s Potential Involvement
This report outlines the national and provincial educational structure in the four Atlantic provinces and the key opportunities for Environment Canada’s involvement within the formal education system. It includes curriculum documents, roles of key departments/school boards, teachers’ associations, teacher professional development and key processes such as supplementary resource approval.
Collaborator: Susan Gesner, Gesner & Associates Environmental Learning
Canadian Wildlife Service Curriculum Links Database
The Ontario Provincial K to 12 Curriculum was linked to target topics for the Canadian Wildlife Service (CWS) to help CWS design learning materials that are appropriate for use in Ontario schools. These links were then integrated into a searchable database to allow easy searching and access.
Collaborator: Susan Gesner, Gesner & Associates Environmental Learning
Image credit: George Lantz, Vision Photography
Provincial Governments
Nova Scotia Department of Education
Vox Point of Youth Website, Writer
Sprout analyzed the source material and prototype Vox Point of Youth website to provide specific recommendations on how best to structure the site. Web 2.0 principles were used to write copy for the Vox Point of Youth Website, including youth and government sections and seven 100 word case studies. Sprout also provided next steps as part of the website consultation.
“It was wonderful working with you Nicole and I really enjoyed your enthusiasm and vision for this project.” – Deborah Pellerin
Council of Atlantic Premiers & N.S. Department of Environment & Labour
Review of Certification Test Items (Multiple Choice)
This review analyzed a set of multiple choice test items from an education perspective. It provided feedback to the client about how to improve item stems and distractors according to research-based principles of question design. Exams included: Integrated Pest Management for Agriculture and Environment (Core), Human Health & Pesticide Safety, Agriculture, Vendor, Core, Industrial, Forest, Landscape, Provincial and Federal Regulations, Aerial, Aquatic, Forestry, Greenhouse, Mosquitos and Biting Flies, Structural, and Fumigation.
Corporate, NGOs, Institutions
Nova Scotia Community College (NSCC)
Customized Training – Climate Change (ENVI 3100 Online)
This online college credit course provides participants with study guides, learning activities, online resources, evaluation materials, a course schedule, and a course map. Themes include the scientific evidence of climate change, impacts and adaptations to climate change, and solutions for climate change. Each theme is addressed on a global, national, and regional scale.
Image credit: NASA/JPL – Orbiting Carbon Observatory
Customized Training – Principles of Energy Management (ESET 1103 Online)
This online college credit course provides participants with study guides, learning activities, online resources, evaluation materials, a course schedule, and a course map. Themes include energy management best practices, energy management information systems, product life cycle, energy audits, energy metering, measurement, and reporting, and statistical analysis of energy consumption patterns.
Beekeeping Course Curriculum
Sprout developed the curriculum for a proposed beekeeping course at the NSCC. This involved defining, through extensive research and stakeholders consultations, what knowledge, skills, and values future beekeepers should possess. The curriculum represents the diversity of beekeeping methods in the Maritime provinces while at the same time offering outcomes that have the potential to produce students who are competitive worldwide. Both organic and integrated pest management approaches were incorporated into expected learning outcomes.
Image credit: George Lantz, Vision Photography
Pearson Higher Education (www.pearsoned.ca)
PowerPoint® Slides for Instructor’s Resource CD-ROM – Environment: The Science Behind the Stories, Cdn Ed. (Withgott/Brennan/Murck)
Published in 2010, this set of twenty-three PowerPoint presentations is based on each chapter of the Canadian edition of the textbook Environment: The Science Behind the Stories (Pliske/Marcum/Lantz) . ISBN-13:978-0-321-49530-3
Image provided by Pearson Canada, Inc. © 2010
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Companion Website Plan and Content for Freedman, Environmental Science: A Canadian Perspective (Fifth Canadian Edition, 2010)
This web resource challenges students to reflect on environmental issues through case studies on current events and provocative one-minute readings. It includes a glossary, practice chapter tests, and informative links for further exploration of each topic.
Image provided by Pearson Canada, Inc. © 2010
Lantz Safety Training
Facilitator’s Guide and Participant Workbook for Crossing Guard Course
This crossing guard course provides activities, demonstrations, a case study, and worksheets for participants. Topics include the importance of crossing guards, responsibilities, equipment, general duties, intersection procedures, incident procedures, definitions and the Motor Vehicle Act.
Facilitator’s Guide and Participant Workbook for Traffic Management Guidelines for Emergency Scenes
This kit provides overviews, practice scenarios, demonstrations, and hands-on activities that lead participants through the Traffic Management Guidelines for Emergency Scenes. It includes administrative materials, a lesson plan, and a complete set of handouts with answer keys.
Motivational Strategies Course
This is a three-hour course targeted to individuals who are interested in starting a business or changing a career. It motivates participants and helps them recognize strategies to gain confidence, interpersonal and leadership skills. This course includes an overview, outcomes, lesson plan, detailed activities, educational materials, and assessment strategies. Students participate in student-centered activities such as a role-play and a case study to learn how to deal with a variety of situations.
St. John Ambulance Nova Scotia/PEI Council
A Scan of Halifax Regional Municipality High School Contacts and Interest in the St. John Ambulance LifeSmart Program
LifeSmart is a First Aid Training Program offered to high school students in schools throughout Nova Scotia. This project involved researching and meeting with faculty representatives from each high school in the region, providing information, generating interest, and making key contacts within the schools. A report summarized teacher availability, key challenges, communication with teachers, and detailed feedback from schools.
Toronto Zoo
Toronto Zoo Learning Center Feasibility Study
Sprout Educational Consulting worked as part of an education team led by Gesner & Associates Environmental Learning to produce a comprehensive, integrated program analysis at the Toronto Zoo, with consideration of both formal and informal education settings, audiences, and delivery methods.
Subcontractor to Susan Gesner, Gesner & Associates Environmental Learning on a team of four consultants
Nature Canada
K to 12 PlantWatch Education Guide
This national teachers guide provides engaging activities before, during, and after students observe plants flowering in their own backyard. It is divided into clusters of activities that help students overcome aversion to prickly plants, explore the use of plants in society, study plant structure and function, and gain an appreciation for nature. It includes unique lessons complete with outcomes, background for teachers, instructional and assessment strategies, recommended grade levels, and ready-to-copy handouts and evaluation tools. The best thing about the PlantWatch Education Guide is that it is designed with both the educator and the student in mind – it is practical enough for easy classroom use and interactive enough to engage students in the content.
Ontario Professional Foresters Association
Ontario Professional Foresters Association High School Presentation
A fun, full-class, interactive game designed to teach senior high students about careers in forestry. Part of an awareness campaign, it is built using standard presentation software so that it is accessible to all.
Collaborator: Susan Gesner, Gesner & Associates Environmental Learning
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