RESOURCES
Squamish Rivers & Estuary Educational Resources
Recommended for Pre and/or Post Outreach Program acitivities or for use with your own lesson plans.
Created to help connect students to our watershed, traditional ways of knowing, and the Squamish community (human and more than human).
Please contact [email protected] if you have any questions.
Recommended for Pre and/or Post Outreach Program acitivities or for use with your own lesson plans.
Created to help connect students to our watershed, traditional ways of knowing, and the Squamish community (human and more than human).
Please contact [email protected] if you have any questions.
Grade 3
| A Drop in the Bucket (K-3): Students will recognize the limited amount of fresh water that is available to living things |
| A House of Seasons (K-3): Students will recognize the presence of water throughout the seasons |
| Aqua Words (K-3): Students will be able to describe a variety of ways & reasons why water is important to people & wildlife |
| Estuary Food Web (3-7): Students will recognize that estuary food chains are the transfer of food energy from plants to a top consumer |
| Everybody Needs a Home (K-3): Students will be able to generalize that people & other animals share a basic need to have a home |
| Hooks & Ladders (K-3): Students will be able to understand that some fish migrate as part of their life cycle; and that a healthy habitat is an important part of that migration |
| Make a Watershed Model (K-7): Students will predict where water will flow in watersheds and understand the impact of water flow in their school yard |
| Riparian Field Trip (2-4): Students will describe riparian areas & their importance for healthy watersheds |
| River & Estuary Jugglers (3-6): Students will name important habitat, plants, & animals of the estuary |
| Stewardship BINGO! (K-3): Students will be able to identify stewardship activities that help care for a stream or other sensitive habitats |
| Stream Sense (K-4): Students will recognize how their senses provide them with details about stream ecosystems |
| The Life Box (K-3): Students will identify 4 essential factors necessary for life & explain how living things use these 4 factors |
| The Water Cycle in Squamish (2-7): Students will recognize the limited amount of fresh water that's available to living things |
| Water Plant Art (K-3): Students will be able to identify a variety of aquatic plants |
| Watershed Food Fest (K-7): Students will learn about a variety of foods that grow in their watershed & learn to appreciate the importance of water & watersheds in lifestyle |