Resources
General Resources
Birds Canada has developed a guide for Prairie Landowners. This guide compiles the financial incentives and other programs available to preserve, enhance, or restore Prairie habitats across the prairies, into a one-stop source of information. This guide will make it easier for landowners and producers to access these programs and take conservation action.
NEW What can YOU do to help Birds and Bats?
Learn some facts about native prairie, just in time for Native Prairie Appreciation Week!
For parents or teachers of younger children, check out some fantastic Species at Risk colouring sheets developed by PCAP Partner Nature Sask!
Find almost 100 workshops, lessons plans, activities and games for exploring the natural world with your students.
Nature Saskatchewan has a list of resources for teachers and students.
NCLI Video “Get ’em Outside” – This engaging and inspiring No Child Left Inside (NCLI) Coalition video celebrates environmental education and its impacts on children, learning, health and leadership.
PCAP Factsheet – Native Gardening – Keeping Kindersley Green (can be modified to fit your own town/city)
Royal Saskatchewan Museum – Offers fun and educational programs in the areas of Earth Sciences, Life Sciences and First Nations for students in Kindergarten to Grade 12.
Saskatchewan Environmental Society, Destination Conservation Saskatchewan – A practical, student-driven, activity-based program that brings environmental education alive in our schools that helps students and staff save energy, conserve water and reduce waste while at the same time saving money! Once the program is complete 20-30% savings in utility bills are typically realized.
SaskOutdoors – Offers resources for students, teachers, educators, including professional development workshops.
Funding availability:
Saskatchewan Outdoor and Environmental Education Association – Schools groups can receive up to $500 in assistance for carrying out environmental action projects for educational purposes or outdoor education experience
Teacher Resources - Agriculture
Agribition for Students – Canadian Western Agribition in Regina, SK showcases agriculture for students through their Agri-Ed program along with numerous displays & demonstrations.
Agriculture in the Classroom (AITC) – Tools and resources for teachers in an effort to make your job easier to educate students about the role agriculture plays in food production, health care, renewable resources, economic development and environmental stewardship.
Teacher Resources - Climate Change
Canadian Wildlife Federation, Wild Education – Find learning activities that address the impacts of climate change on our natural world.
Partners FOR the Saskatchewan River Basin, Click on Climate Change – Click on Climate is an outdoor field day program aimed at helping youth ages 8-13 understand some of the concepts associated with climate change and its interactions with ecosystems. Kits are used to deliver this program.
Teacher Resources - Environment
Environmental Kids Club – A great, interactive, easy to use, site that provides many activities and ideas on environmental stewardship.
Green Teacher – A magazine to help youth educators enhance environmental and global education inside and outside of schools.
Teacher Resources - Plants & Animals
FrogWatch – Help increase knowledge about frogs and toads in Saskatchewan by helping to monitor their numbers in Saskatchewan.
Hinterland’s Who’s Who – Find in-depth descriptions of wildlife, discussions on issues, actions that you can take to help wildlife, and educational materials that teachers and groups leaders can use.
Little Green Thumbs Saskatchewan – Open your students to the world of garden-based learning, hands on experiments in plants units, lessons on nutrition, vermicomposting and reducing food waste. Includes the “Seeds to Salad” where students can grow their own food.
Saskatchewan Burrowing Owl Interpretive Centre – Located in Moose Jaw, SK, SBOIC offers educational tours of the facility including their Endangered Spaces and Species exhibit, an Owls On Tour program and a link on their website to a live webcam on a Burrowing Owl nest.
Teacher Resources - Soil, Water & Wetlands
Ducks Unlimited Canada – Offers many different wetland and environmental education choices and resources ranging from hands-on interactive programs to We-based initiatives.
PCAP Factsheets:
ProjectWet – Provides teachers with a curriculum and activity guide for K-12 to educate students of the world of water.
Swift Current Creek Watershed Stewards, Water Bugs – Learn about the different bugs used to indicate the health of a water body such as a lake, wetland, river or stream using simple descriptions and line drawings for identification.
Watersheds TV, Watershed Resources – Find information on watersheds (wetlands) including video presentations and multimedia kits.