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Beyond the Green Blur: Green Adventures in Your Own Backyard

Video: The Wild Path Home

Activity • Lesson Plan • Web Link

Post-Visit “Natural Neighbours”

Activity • Lesson Plan • Post-Visit Program-Related

The Beauty of Winter: Nature Crafts in the Cold

Activity • Downloadable PDF

Post-Visit “Hide and Seek: A Program about Camouflage”

Activity • Lesson Plan • Post-Visit Program-Related

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Nature Note 1: Speaking Chickadee

Magnificent Moths

Activity • Downloadable PDF

NFB Website

All About Balsam

Activity • Downloadable PDF

Flutterby’s: The Magic of Butterflies

Activity • Downloadable PDF

Frozen Bubbles!

Young boy reading book under tree

Pre-Visit First Nations Awareness and Traditional Ecological Knowledge

Activity • Lesson Plan • Web Link

Post-Visit “Seeds and Seed Dispersal”

Activity • Lesson Plan • Post-Visit Program-Related

Post-Visit Taming the Wildflower

Activity • Lesson Plan • Post-Visit Program-Related

dense blazing star flowers

Pre-Visit Taming the Wildflower

Activity • Lesson Plan • Pre-Visit Program-Related

Tree Bee Website

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Nature Note 5: Micro-Trails

purple flowers

Nature Hammered Prints: A Smashing Good Time

Activity • Downloadable PDF

Post-Visit “First Nations Awareness and Traditional Ecological Knowledge”

Activity • Lesson Plan • Post-Visit Program-Related • Web Link

House Plants

Nature Notes: Benefits of Indoor Plants

Red squirrel in winter

Squirrel Thoughts

Activity • Downloadable PDF • Lesson Plan

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Nature Notes Winter Edition: Episode 4 SNOW GAMES with Jacob & Glen

Activity • Video

Hiding in Plain Sight

Activity • Downloadable PDF

Earthworm in dirt

Nature Notes: The Earthworm is an Invader!

Post-Visit “Honing in on Homes”

Activity • Lesson Plan

Three siblings looking at nature with magnifying glasses

Pre-visit Activity: “Am I Alive?” Program

Activity • Lesson Plan • Pre-Visit Program-Related

Red squirrel in winter

Pre/Post Visit for “A Day in the Life of a Squirrel” Programming

Activity • Lesson Plan • Post-Visit Program-Related • Pre-Visit Program-Related

Nest with 3 bird eggs in it

The Magic of Nests

Activity • Downloadable PDF

Archive of Outdoor Lesson Plans

Lesson Plan • Web Link

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Nature Note 6: Spring Activities

Unplug… And Plug Into Nature

Activity • Downloadable PDF

“Cell phone bans may help, but to get to the root cause of too much screen time we need to re-inspire a love for nature”

Tomatoes growing

Pre-Visit “Local Eats: The Importance of Healthy Food”

Activity • Lesson Plan • Pre-Visit Program-Related

Closeup of a Dragonfly

Alien Next Door: Discovering Our Special Pond Friends

Activity • Downloadable PDF

Tomatoes growing

Post-Visit “Local Eats: The Importance of Healthy Food”

Activity • Lesson Plan • Post-Visit Program-Related • Web Link

Drawings of birds

Nature Journals

Activity • Downloadable PDF

child feeding birds

Pre-Visit “Seeds and Seed Dispersal”

Activity • Lesson Plan • Pre-Visit Program-Related • Web Link

Species at Risk Public Registry Website Link

The Great Popsicle Fuel Race

The Nose Knows

Activity • Downloadable PDF

Snowy Owl

Nature Notes: Snowy Owl

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Nature Note 4: Using Your Senses

Equitable Nature Access Toolkit

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Nature Note Winter Edition: Episode 5 HOLE PATROL

Activity • Video

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Nature Note 9: Nature Frame

Activity • Video

bird feeder

Nature Notes: Your Bird Feeding Station

Whizzing Water Stories

Activity • Downloadable PDF

Blurred Trees

Pre-Visit “Treeific: A Program about Plants and Trees”

Activity • Lesson Plan • Pre-Visit Program-Related

NCCIE Website

Tiny Finds: The Micro-World of the Forest

Activity • Downloadable PDF

Post-Visit “Tree-ific: A Program about Plants and Trees”

Activity • Lesson Plan • Post-Visit Program-Related

Young boy walking in the forest

The Art of Stalking

Christmas tree with decorations

Nature Note: The Christmas Tree

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Nature Note 10: Basement Windows

Activity • Video

Wanderfall Seeds

Activity • Downloadable PDF

Wonderful Worms

Activity • Downloadable PDF

Educator/Parent Book List

For the Birds

Activity • Downloadable PDF

Animals Keeping Warm and Cozy: Making Winter Nests

Activity • Downloadable PDF

Nature Activity – The 5 Senses

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Nature Notes Winter Edition: Episode 8 Nature Sculptures

Activity • Video

The Hidden World of Ponds and Streams

Activity • Downloadable PDF

The Nose Knows

Activity • Downloadable PDF

Brush Article

Brush With Nature

Activity • Downloadable PDF

Nurturing Naturalists

Downloadable PDF

bird feeder

Pre-Visit Natural Neighbours

Activity • Lesson Plan • Pre-Visit Program-Related

Post-Visit “Am I Alive?”

Activity • Lesson Plan • Post-Visit Program-Related

Neighbourwood Eco Parent Resource

Activity • Downloadable PDF