These versatile lesson plans are designed to integrate with Manitoba curriculum outcomes for specific grades mentioned on each page below. However, they can be adapted for all ages — even adults!
Objective: Students will use photography to connect with nature. The images and ideas address what is important, concerning and of interest to the students involved.
Objective: Students will make observations and identify organisms in nature in order to understand biodiversity.
Objective: Students are exposed to different areas of science and research methods by conducting field work and observing their environment during a guided walk through a local ecosystem.
Objective: Students will learn about and use GPS technology to find and answer climate change-related questions and discuss nature-based solutions.
Objective: Students will play the role of "sustainable investigative journalist" and create individual newspaper articles that can be compiled into a class newspaper.
Objective: Students will create plans to green their schoolyard or community, which can be presented to school administration.
Objective: Students will learn about food chains and how they can be imbalanced by human impacts, using the example of a local species at risk, the Burrowing Owl.
Objective: Students will learn how to work together to take action on climate change and about Canada's role in the Paris Agreement.
Objective: Students will practise mindfulness and wellness in nature, learning simple meditation and grounding techniques.
Objective: Students will investigate and observe sights and sounds of natural elements and living things in a local ecosystem.
Objective: Students will learn how to identify trees, tally trees in their neighbourhood and create an art piece inspired by trees.
