Connecting students to nature
from our backyard to yours
FortWhyte Alive, Winnipeg's gorgeous reclaimed urban green space, can
still set you on course for some outdoor adventures - even if it might not be
within their 660-acre setting for the time being.
Their online resources for educators and families help youngsters develop
deep connections with nature, imploring them to perform their own outdoor
experiments. This great website has lessons for kids in their earliest years
to students of all ages, covering a range of subjects from biodiversity, to
ecology, and resource management. Hands-on activities will see students
learning to identify plants, invertebrates and birds, while you'll also find
posters on grassland critters, aquatic critters, and many more species that
are crawling around right outside your door.
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fortwhyte.org
Meet me in the Marsh
Oak Hammock Marsh is a top birding hot spot and an
integral North American wetland for migrating species.
While you may not be able to make it here to traverse the
marsh via canoe or wade through it in hip waders, you can
still do some exploring from the comfort of your home.
Oak Hammock's Live Marsh Cam is always available to
provide a real-time view of the area so you can spy on its
many inhabitants, which includes more than 400 species
of birds in spring-summer-fall and 50 species in winter –
including grouse, hawks, blue jays and waxwings. As well,
their Facebook page is full of cheeky Marsh Minutes that
bring you up close to species like otters, trumpeter swans,
and plenty of geese.
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oakhammockmarsh.ca
The Canadian Museum for Human Rights' stunning
architecture and content is always awe-inspiring, even
for those who are only able to currently visit online.
Their ongoing Virtual Museum Tours provide five-
to-20 minute excursions throughout various areas of
the Museum, highlighting aspects like the Indigenous
Perspectives gallery, the Inspiring Change gallery,
and the building's immense architecture. As well, the
Museum's mobile app can also be used to travel
through the Museum remotely, with narration provided
by some of its curators along with images and video
that help bring the Museum to your home. All these
tours are available in English, French, sign language
and with audio descriptions. The Museum also has
an abundance of videos on their YouTube channel
featuring luminaries like Malala Yousafzai, Vincenzo
Pietropaolo and Buffy Sainte-Marie.
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humanrights.ca
Remotely toward
universal rights
