Length: 1-2 hours
Availability: Spring and Summer
Location: In-classroom workshop/ school yard
Description: Through interactive learning and presentation students will learn about the different parts of plants, various native pollinator species, their habitat, how pollination occurs, and the benefits to our ecosystem. The class will then go outside to make clay seed balls to take home. All seeds and equipment are provided

Activity Length: 1 hour
Availability: Year-round
Location: In-classroom workshop
Description: A brief introduction will demonstrate the water cycle and show students up close the process water takes when it evaporates, condenses and precipitates. Students will become a part of the water cycle as they transform into water droplet and travel between different areas to understand the journey a water droplet really makes.

Activity Length: 1 hour
Availability: Year-round
Location: In-classroom
Description: Students will learn about pore space and the various types of earth materials that are key factors in determining how groundwater moves. Through a water model, students will be encouraged to investigate the surface water and groundwater, how it moves through various soils and how it is extracted for our use.

Length: 1 hour
Availability: Year-round
Location: In-classroom workshop
Description: Students create an interactive model to help understand the role that plants and trees play in stabilizing our shorelines and preventing erosion. Students create different planting scenarios to understand the importance of the vegetation in our environment and community.

Length: 1 hour
Availability: Year-round
Location: In-classroom workshop
Description: Through interactive models students will explore what is and makes up a watershed. They will experiment how all of the water is interconnected, while learning the rivers and tributaries within their community. Students will take a closer look at the Lower Trent watershed region through a 3D model to help understand the natural features within it.

Length: 1 hour
Availability: Fall, Winter, Spring, and Summer
Location: In-classroom workshop
Description: Students will work with a hands-on model building their community. The facilitator then introduces the concept of pollution within our community and explains how we can all help to prevent it. This enables students to identify environmentally responsible actions that they can implement in their daily lives to keep their watersheds clean and healthy.

Activity Length: 1 hour
Availability: Fall, Spring, and Summer
Location: Offered at Goodrich-Loomis Education Centre or off-site at schools where suitable.
Description: Through hands-on investigation students will explore a water system and the wonderful benthic invertebrates, or “water bugs” that live in the water. Students will learn about some of the adaptations these bugs have to survive in these spaces, how the needs of these bugs are met, and how these bugs play an important role in indicating water quality to scientists.

Activity Length: 1 hour
Season Availability: Fall, Spring, and Summer
Location: Offered on-site at Goodrich-Loomis Education Centre or off-site at schools where suitable.
Description: In this hands-on activity students will explore Goodrich-Loomis Conservation Area to discover a variety of trees and their defining features. Students will then use their senses to investigate and identify different parts of trees and discover the types of trees at Goodrich-Loomis Conservation Area. This activity culminates with the creation of a beautiful bark and foliage rubbing.

Activity Length: 1 hour
Availability: Fall, Spring, and Summer
Location: Offered on-site at Goodrich-Loomis Education Centre or off-site at schools where suitable.
Description: Students will investigate a macro and micro habitat, and learn about some of the animals that live there and how their needs (shelter, space, water and food) are met in these two different habitats. Students will take part in a hike within a macro (big) habitat and then investigate a micro (small) habitat through a scavenger hunt of pictures.

Activity length:
Availability: Fall, Winter, Spring, Summer
Location: In-Classroom and school yard
Description: Through in class discussion and hands on activities students will learn an overview of the Clean Water act, what source water is and why it is important to protect it. Students will become familiar with threats to our drinking water as well as gaining a greater understanding of where their drinking water comes from. This program is a great way to expand on the water cycle, watersheds, and environmental protection.

Activity Length: 1 hour
Availability: Year-round
Location: In-classroom
Description: The Augmented Reality Sandbox is used as a hands-on interactive tool to help students understand the importance of water resources and earth science concepts. Colours depicting land formations with various elevations with detailed contour lines are projected onto the sand. As students interact with the sand, the unit detects the movement to the sand and alters the colours and contour lines in real time. Simulation of rainfall, flooding and drought is controlled by students helping them understand the nature of the water flow within landforms.