Lower Trent Conservation
Did You Know?

More the 80 % of Ontario’s population receives their drinking water from a municipal drinking water system. Municipalities, Conservation Authorities, and Source Protection Authorities others play a strong role in ensuring that municipally treated drinking water is safe for our use.

 

In Class Workshops

Lower Trent Education and Outreach Programs

Did you know that Lower Trent Conservation offers Ontario curriculum-linked programming for students enrolled in Kindergarten to Grade 12 within our watershed region?

DOWNLOAD our Education and Outreach Program Brochure

To learn how your children/student(s) can benefit from these programs or to inquire about any program topics not listed that you would like to see contact Environmental Education Technician Nicholas Reynolds by email at [email protected] or leave a message at (613) 394-3915 x.251.

Programs

 Pollinator Seed Balls

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

Water Cycle

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.

Soil Recipes

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.

Erosion Busters

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.

What is a watershed?

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.

Enviroscape (wetlands)

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.

Pond Dipping/Water bugs

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.

Forest Senses

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.

Macro-Micro Hike

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.

Source Water Protection

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.

Augmented Reality Sandbox

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.

Program Request Form

Download our program request form or fill out the form below to request a program.