Who needs plants? We all do! Learn how trees and flowers grow and change through the seasons. Go on a wildflower hike or search for seeds.

Curriculum Connections
Grade 1: Science and Technology: Earth and Space Systems: Daily and Seasonal Changes; Science and Technology: Life Systems: Needs and Characteristics of Living Things
Grade 2: Science and Technology: Earth and Space Systems: Air and Water in the Environment
Grade 3: Science and Technology: Life Systems: Growth and Changes in Plants

Ontario Physical Activity Safety Standards in Education
Kindergarten / Primary Grades (Movement Activities)
Outdoor Education (General Procedures)
Cooperative Games

Primary and Junior
Spot frogs and turtles! Learn how wetland creatures are adapted to life in and around water. Use dip nets to search for tadpoles, fish and aquatic insects at the marsh.

Senior
Discover different types of wetlands and their importance to humans and the environment. Use dip nets to search for aquatic creatures and discover how they live.

Curriculum Connections
Grade 1: Science and Technology: Life Systems: Needs and Characteristics of Living Things
Grade 2: Science and Technology: Earth and Space Systems: Air and Water in the Environment
Grade 4: Science and Technology: Understanding Life Systems: Habitats and Communities; Science and Technology: Earth and Space Systems: Air and Water in the Environment
Grade 6: Science and Technology: Life Systems: Biodiversity
Grade 7: Science and Technology: Life Systems: Interactions in the Environment
Grade 8: Science and Technology: Earth and Space Systems

Ontario Physical Activity Safety Standards in Education
Outdoor Education (Hiking)
Food / Water Activities

Unlock the secretes beneath your feet! Dive into a world of earthy wonders and learn the vital role soil plays in our ecosystem.

Curriculum Connections
Grade 3: Science and Technology: Earth and Space Systems
Grade 4: Science and Technology: Earth and Space Systems: Air and Water in the Environment

Ontario Physical Activity Safety Standards in Education
Outdoor Education (Hiking)
Food / Water Activities

Highlights the intricate relationshiop between soil and water quality. Designed to empower students with hands-on experience and essential knowledge.

Curriculum Connections
Grade 8: Science and Technology: Earth and Space Systems
Grade 9: Science
Grade 11: Environmental Science

Ontario Physical Activity Safety Standards in Education
Outdoor Education (Hiking)
Food / Water Activities

Storytelling is an important component of Indigenous culture. Stories preserve language and culture, help people to develop better understanding of the world around them, and foster deeper connections to the land, animals, and other people.

Curriculum Connections
Social Studies
- Developing an understanding of diversity within local, national, and global communities both past and present.
- Developing the knowledge, understanding, and skills that lay the foundation for future studies.
The Arts
- Understanding cultural traditions and innovations.
- Manipulating elements and forms to convey or express thoughts, feelings, messages, or ideas through arts.
- Using the critical analysis process.
- Collaborating to create works with others, and performing in ensembles.
History
- Developing understanding of past societies.
- Developing understandings of diverse groups and how they have changed over time.
- Developing historical literacy skills.
Geography
- Analyzing connections between natural and human environments and communities.
- Being responsible stewards of the Earth by developing appreciation and respect for natural and human environments and communities.
Critical Thinking, Communication, and Citizenship Skills
Native Languages

In order to be stewards of the land, a person must be in a healthy, balanced relationship to it. Good relations with the land require time, reciprocity, and dedication so that they may understand what the land provides them and what they can do in return. During this guided hike students will be encouraged to use their senses to explore the forest and learn how Traditional Ecological Knowledge inspires positive relationships with the living and non-living world around us.

Curriculum Connections
Social Studies
- Developing an understanding of diversity within local, national, and global communities both past and present.
Geography
- Analyzing connections between natural and human environments and communities.
- Being responsible stewards of the Earth by developing appreciation and respect for natural and human environments and communities.
Critical thinking, communications, and citizenship skills.

The Seven Grandfather Teachings were given by spirit to the Anishinaabeg, and have been carried through all generations despite colonization. These teachings ensure the quality of the land and provide the people with a peaceful, harmonious, balanced existence. Truth, humility, respect, love, honesty, bravery, and wisdom; discuss these teachings with our Indigenous Community Educator to continue growing in your responsibilities within your environmental community.

Curriculum Connections
Science and Technology
- Stewardship and Sustainability. Sustainability is the concept of meeting the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their needs. It involves understanding that we need to use and care for the natural environment in a responsible way and making the effort to pass on to future generations no less than what we have access to ourselves.
Social Studies
- Developing an understanding of responsible citizenship.
- Developing an understanding of the diversity within local, national, and global communities, both past and present.
- Developing an understanding of interrelationships within and between the natural environment and human communities.
History
- Developing an understanding of past societies, developments, and events that enables them to interpret and analyze historical, as well as current, issues.
Geography
- Being responsible stewards of the Earth by developing an appreciation and respect for both natural and human environments and communities.
Native Languages

Take a guided walk through C.M. Wilson Conservation Area to identify different plant species, their uses, Traditional Ecological Knowledge, and their names in Anishinaabemowin. The purpose of this activity is to connect people to nature and learn the services provided by native plant life.

Curriculum Connections
Science
- Growth and changes in plants.
- Biodiversity
- Daily and seasonal changes.
Social Studies
- Developing and understanding of interrelationships within and between the natural environment and human communities.
Geography
- Being responsible stewards of the Earth by developing an appreciation and respect for both natural and human environments and communities.
Native Languages