School Outreach

Client: Earth Rangers
Sector: Environment

This primer collection of five evidence-based project starters for early and late elementary teachers is based on recent literature in science education. The learning materials are offered to teachers to help them get started on a class project that is rooted in authentic scientific practice. There are a variety of educational approaches, including design challenges, citizen science, and investigations. Project Starters include curriculum concepts, learning outcomes, set up, assessment, connections to community and links to related Earth Rangers programs.

Topics include: butterflies, pollinators, birds, habitat, needs of living things, plant growth, animal behaviour, seeds, life cycles, measurements, observations, weather and precipitation, water cycle, interconnectivity of living and non-living things.  

Client: Parks Canada
Sector:  Environment | Career Education

This adaptation of classroom and field-based lesson plans incorporates quirky day-in-the-life videos with immersive activities to impart the rewards of careers in Canada’s northern national parks. Topics include remote sensing and ecological monitoring, ParkSPACE and International Polar Year. 

Client: Earth Rangers
Sector: Environment

This cooperative full-class game uses a deck of cards and hula hoops to model the changing landscape of a greenbelt. Students see how the balance of positive actions and threats can change the outcome. The game includes rules, Ontario curriculum links, reflection questions, letter-writing scaffolds and animal fact cards.