Animal Acting
Turning observation into action reinforces learning. This a simple game mimics charades and allows students to display animal behaviour that they have observed by acting it out in a team setting. It is fun and educational.
Turning observation into action reinforces learning. This a simple game mimics charades and allows students to display animal behaviour that they have observed by acting it out in a team setting. It is fun and educational.
This fun activity harnesses and focuses student energy on the beach into a learning experience. Students use full-colour bingo cards to find and identify local beach creatures. All photos were taken in the intertidal zone of Mayne Island, BC by Stephanie Hurst.
This tag-based running game demonstrates the concept of bio magnification using POPs (Persistent Organic Pollutants) in marine ecosystems as an example.
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This is one of our most popular activities that can be adapted for any outdoor environment. It is a task oriented game that allows students to explore an ecosystem while learning simple facts that lead to the discovery of a mystery animal or plant.
This activity brings home the concept of how far and how arduous this annual migration is for birds. It is a role play activity of sorts where the participants are specific bird species that must leave their breeding ground get to their wintering ground and return again. The activity sets a course which has many of the challenges that birds actually face while migrating. It is an experiential way for participants to understand migration, its natural and man-made hazards and the risks for birds to survive.
This activity is great for exploring and describing the world using senses other than sight (touch mostly, but also smell and sound). It helps to create an intimate bond with a place and its inhabitants - especially the plants, rocks and terrain.
This activity encourages participants to explore the world of bugs in their area. Using bug boxes and magnifying glasses, as well as some reference books on hand, participants are told that they are going to be entomologists together and build a bug wall of information to share all they have found.
Participants explore the intertidal area (best if it's a rocky intertidal area) collecting specimens they would like to observe and placing them in an aquarium that is set up on the beach.
This activity is great for participants to better understand why it is important for prey animals to be camouflaged within the habitat they live both by keeping still and their colouration.
This is our NEWEST Sierra Club BC resource for teachers and informal educators of middle years students.
Climate change is the most pressing issue of our time. We have developed this set of teaching resources to help you plan lessons that foster young thinkers to engage with this issue and think about the solutions.
The lesson plan is broken down into 10 sections, based on the 10 climate action recommendations of a Sierra Club BC report, The Future is Here.