Your pupils can complete the activities outside while basking in the summer sun, practising key topics from KS1 and KS2 Maths without even knowing it – our favourite form of “stealth learning”.
The Canada's Forests Teaching Kit Series booklets focus on educating youth about the value of forests and the importance of protecting and conserving them. Scroll down on this page
Students measure trees in the community and estimate of the carbon that is stored within these trees. They explore how the amount of carbon stored in trees relates to what is emitted.
These hands-on resources include outdoor activities, in-class experiments, and school-wide projects that will engage your students to connect with nature and wildlife in an interactive way that is fundamentally based on inquiry-based learning.
Have you ever wondered what goes on between blades of grass, or what you can find flowing along with the water in a stream? An easy outdoor science activity for kids can help you find the answers.
There's so much information out there for ideas and activities that are brilliant for Forest School, but finding and remembering it all can be really difficult. Here is a collection for you
Plant knowledge in particular has always been central to Indigenous lifeways. These plant activities are meant to support this kind of experiential and relational learning.
32 weekly collections of activities drawn from the Resources for Rethinking (R4R) database. Each week includes activities for grades 1-3, 3-6, and 7-12
This document explores the ethical harvest considerations and cultural foundations of this work, as well as teaching practices that enhance students’ interaction with the content.
These are individual lesson and topic ideas sourced from a broad range of experts and organisations. You’ll see that we’ve concentrated on inspiration, leaving the planning of how the activity will be delivered up to the person that knows their class and environment the best — you.
Learning about our environment can be fun! These science games are engaging, they can be adapted to your specific lesson objective, and they challenge students to put their new knowledge into practice.
This activity asks students to take on the role of a land manager and consider the needs of multiple stakeholders of our forest landscapes. It is designed to be given to students to work on individually with minimal instructions.
A StoryWalk can turn solitary reading into a dynamic activity by engaging students' minds and bodies. In this article, a teacher-librarian offers tips for creating a StoryWalk for your students
This kit contains 20 forest tools and a 1-page quick reference sheet. This resource kit was developed to support teachers in bringing forest careers to life in the classroom.
