Teacher Connection
For Teachers
The CPAWS Boreal Education Team aims to provide curriculum-integrated resources to help address boreal forest issues in the classroom. Currently, our group has produced presentations and materials for Grade 6 classrooms, and we will be working on expanding our programs to include all grade levels. If you teach other grades, please feel free to look through the programs anyway as there are curriculum links to the other grades. In addition, boreal lesson plans will be available for download from this website. If you would like to be notified when materials are available for a specific grade level, please contact the boreal education team at the email address listed below.
If you are interested in more information about our programs, or you would like to book a CPAWS Education presentation for your classroom, please email our boreal education team or call 780.432.0967.
Current Programs:
The Canadian Boreal Forest.
In this program students will learn about some of the plants and animals that call the boreal forest home. As well, ecosystem interactions will be discussed.
The Boreal Forest and Us.
Explore some human uses of the boreal forest and how these uses can have both positive and negative effects on the fitness of the forest.
Solutions: What Kids Can Do!
Learn about forest management and ways to conserve the boreal forest. (This program also fits into Topic A: Local Government in the social studies curriculum).
Post presentation package
We are currently developing our post presentation package. You can download boreal forest word finds here.
Endangered Species of Canada.
Learn and discuss reasons why Canadian species are endangered or at risk, how this impacts the ecosystem, and some simple ways to help protect them.
Parks in Alberta.
Explore Alberta's parks. Discuss what makes a park, how important it is to balance the needs of the ecosystem, and think about how you would design your own park.
Action Bingo
Also new for 2007 is our exciting, curriculum linked ACTION BINGO. The action bingo includes different challenges that your class can take on to help improve their relationship with the environment. From art to math to science these activities encompass many levels of difficulty, subjects of study, and categories of the environment. You can use it to follow up with one of our amazing programs, or run it on your own.
For more information about how our programs connect with the Alberta curriculum, please download our Curriculum Connections table (pdf).
Visit Alberta Tomorrow, a free online land-use simulator designed to let students discover how land use decisions can affect Alberta's ecosystems. Teacher guides are also available.
