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Nature Blitz
Nature SaskatchewanNatureHood is all nature in your neighbourhood. It’s nearby nature— nature found right where people live: backyards, the park at the end of thestreet, a local green space. The Goal of the NatureHood program is to connect...
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teacher.orgThis day and age, it seems as though more and more children are disconnected from nature. However, our future leaders need to be equipped for tomorrow's challenges. As teachers, it is important that we prepare our children for the future...
Link More InfoThe Complete Guide to Growing Your Own Organic Food
EckmanOrganic food has always been viewed as the healthy option, but only in recent years has the notion become a nationwide phenomenon. In the past, organic food was somewhat of a fad and although the principles were practiced, it was by no means...
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Sustainability HubSustainability Hub is the largest sustainability video archive on the web for those seeking to live more sustainably. A sustainable lifestyle is the answer to slowing global climate change and living a happier and healthier life.
Link More InfoComposting Guide
City of ReginaThe City of Regina promotes composting as a way to help reduce the amount of waste materials going to our landfill. Composting also produces a free soil conditioner which improves soil quality and helps plants flourish. To assist with YOUR...
Download Link More InfoMeewasin Valley Interpretive Centre Website
Meewasin Valley Interpretive CentreThe Meewasin Valley Interpretive Centre and Beaver Creek Conservation Area?are pleased to offer a variety of interesting programs to groups upon request, including children's programs, presentations, heritage walking tours and...
Link More InfoGreen Teacher Magazine
Canadian Network for Environmental Education and Communication (EECOM)Green Teacher is a Canadian non-profit?magazine for youth educators, whether inside or outside schools. Four times a year, Green Teacher publishes innovative ideas and activities for promoting environmental literacy and global...
Link More InfoGrade 3: Waste and Our World: The Science of Soils
The Prairie Learning CentreStudents work through many of the outcomes for the Grade Three Science Curriculum area for Soils. The Prairie Learning Centre will come into the class and teach these outcomes in a fun, interactive and engaging way. Students will engage in...
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Conservation InternationalNature doesn’t need people. People need nature. That’s the message of our provocative, celebrity-studded campaign “Nature Is Speaking”. Our aim is to raise awareness that people need nature in order to...
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Wilderness Awareness SchoolWilderness Awareness School is an environmental education organization based in Duvall, Washington. They are dedicated to caring for the earth and our children by fostering understanding and appreciation of nature, community and...
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Saskatchewan Science CentreOur climate is changing and the habitat we call earth is being affected. Explore the earth as a habitat by investigating the biomes of plants, animals and insects.
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Saskatchewan Science CentreBecome a wetland biologist for a day! Learn how scientists collect and use data by making observations and carrying out testing using real scientific tools. In this outdoor workshop we'll explore the wetland habitat of Wascana Marsh.
Link More InfoComposting Fact Sheets
Victoria Compost Education CentreThe Victoria Compost Education Centre website has numerous fact sheets on different types of composting. This particular fact sheet focuses on a type useful in a school setting called vermicomposting or composting indoors with worms.
Download Link More InfoComposting on the Prairies
Saskatchewan Waste Reduction CouncilThe Saskatchewan Waste Reduction Council?s informational DVD, Home Composting on the Prairies, provides basic information on how to compost kitchen and yard waste easily and effectively. Composting is an efficient way to deal with up...
Link More InfoHands-on Compost Demonstration
Saskatchewan Waste Reduction CouncilThis lesson plan organizes students into groups that represent the main ingredients of compost: green materials, brown materials, water, air and soil. With the exception of the person designatedas Air, participants are grouped...
Download Link More InfoComposting Resource
Waste Reduction Week in CanadaInstructions on how to make a variety of composters for organic waste.
Download Link More InfoGardening Fact Sheets
Regina Floral ConservatoryThe Regina Floral Conservatory aims to promote environmental stewardship through a series of gardening fact sheets, teaching appreciation of growing plants and basic gardening practices to the general public. Visit the Regina Floral...
Download Link More InfoLil' Gardeners Club
Regina Floral ConservatoryLil' Gardeners Club is open to children from birth to age five and their parents and grandparents. The program provides a great opportunity for these preschoolers to experience the Conservatory and all it has to offer and for parents to get...
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