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Little Cataraqui Creek
Conservation Area
Cataraqui Region Conservation Authority
Instincts for Survival
(gr: 9 & 10-all seasons)
This physically active simulation game helps students to understand environmental niches, animal adaptations, energy flow, and predator-prey relationships by role-playing the life of an herbivore, omnivore or carnivore. This game is completed with a discussion of how people and limiting factors, such as disease, impact on natural ecosystems.
Wetland Conservation (Marsh Dipping)
(gr: 10,11 -fall, spring)
Biology: Diversity of Living Things -University; Environmental Science - College; Science: Human Impact on the Environment - Workplace
This program begins with a discussion of the environmental issues affecting wetland ecosystems, the different classifications of wetlands, and the importance of human impacts. We will be divided into groups that will test water, forecast the weather, dip for live wetland organisms and examine wetland flora at a designated wetland location at the Little Cataraqui Creek Conservation Area.
Cross Country Ski Lessons
(gr: 9, 10, 11 and 12- winter)
Bring your class out for cross country ski lessons. The cost is $8.00 per student for ski rentals, in addition to the regular program fee. For a full day of activity, add on a snowshoe excursion (see below). (This program is limited to one class per visit due to equipment.)
Snowshoe Excursion
(gr: 9, 10, 11 and 12-winter)
Bring your class out for a snowshoe lesson and tour over marshes and through fields and forests. Learn about snowshoeing techniques, the history of snowshoeing and winter ecology. The snowshoe rental fee is $2.00 per student in addition to the regular program fee. (This program is limited to one class per visit due to equipment.)
Map and Compass: Orienteering
(gr: 9, 10, 11 and 12-all seasons)
Paired with a good map, a compass can help you find almost any place you want to go. This program will challenge your students intellectually and physically. The skills of orienteering can last a life-time and introduce students to the joys of outdoor recreation
My Ecological Footprint
(Grade 9, 11, 12- all seasons)
Students will be introduced to the basic concept of the ecological footprint. Through hands-on indoor and outdoor activities they will examine their own footprint and take a slide show tour. This visual tour will examine the impacts that our actions have on the state of Antarctica and will compare our footprints to those of other cultures living in Nepal and Guyana. By the end of the program the students will have a basic action plan to reduce their footprint and move towards living more lightly on the earth.
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