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Meewasin
Meanderings - Poking Around in Parks and
Playgrounds: Get your kids outside and look at shadows,
snails, butterflies, flowers, rain, trees, clouds, animals,
and plants ....still under construction but lots here
already! |
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The
River Runs Through It -
This website was designed to provide a place to house
links and resources related to the South Saskatchewan
River and surrounding areas of water (ponds, slough, wetlands,
etc). We have provided links to Saskatchewan Curriculum
Links to enable connections to be made between the resources
provided or linked to on this site and the Curriculum
Objectives.
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Meewasin's
Saskatoon Natural Grasslands Eco Education Guide 26M
THIS IS A HUGE FILE. Please
only print the sections you require as the document is
286 pages in length. To do this, when you send the document
to the printer, indicate the page range you would like
to print BEFORE
hitting send. |
| Natural
Resources: (Grade
4 - 12) SASKENERGY has three
lessons for teaching about Natural Gas. The site also
has some printable "fun stuff." |
| Environmental
Awareness: Saskatoon Rebus - (Primary Grades) This
3 page story of a walk down by the Bessborough introduces
students to what they might hear and see if they went
on the walk themselves. This activity is also available
in an online
version. |
Pelicans
- They visit our river every year. Learn more!!
(Additional
themes: Eco-system - river; Birds - migration - Pelicans;
Animals - wild and tame; Seasons) |
- Novel
- Pelly by Glaze, Dave. Coteau Books, 1993.
ISBN 1-55050-049-X
Sandra must move from Big River to Saskatoon with
her Dad. She is very lonely until she finds the riverbank
area close to her apartment. There as she explores
the river she befriends a pelican. Sandra begins to
meet people as she tries to help Pelly survive the
harsh winter ahead. Reading
Level grades 5-7.
- Visit
Dave's website for teaching
suggestions.
- Watch
Meewasin
Valley's Pelican Movie. (11 minutes) PC only.
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| Saskatoon
- City of Bridges - This site contains Meewasin's
Bridge Tales presentation (22 minutes), a structure and
design webquest, links to an art module teaching perspective
using our bridges as an instructional tool, student activities
and teacher resources. This site may be of interest to
anyone teaching about structure and design or the history
and evolution of Saskatoon. |
| Structures
and Design - This website was designed after studying
the concepts of Saskatchewan Education's grade 7 science
unit on Structures and Designs. |
