Vancouver Bird Week is a project of the Stanley Park Ecology Society Here we share their list of 15 common garden birds of Vancouver. Which birds have you seen? Use the Bird Recording Table self-study guide provided by David Livingston to help with your bird observations.
Looking to do some spring birding? Here you can download a self-study guide to help you get to know your local birds. Thanks for sharing David Livingston Elementary school! Photo: Mark Hamilton
Have you ever gone for a walk with your family and come across a plant that you have always been curious about but just don’t know the name? I suggest you download the free app Seek, by iNaturalist (LINK). This app allows you to hover your phone’s camera over a plant and it will (most …
At home with your kid(s) and trying to find something to do outside to help them connect to nature? Nature Journalling might just be what you were looking for. What is Nature Journaling, you might ask? Nature Journaling is the act of going outside and partaking in careful observation of an element of the natural world. …
An outdoor learning lesson by Jason Camp. Good for all grades from K to 12. How to do the Sound Mapping exercise 1. Have the students mark the middle of their paper with a stick drawing of themselves. 2. Have them mark north on their map 3. Move outside to any location and help the …
The goal is to use a North American First Nations technique to derive the height of tall objects, such as trees. It works like this. All sides of a square are equal in length. There are 4 x 90 degree angles in a square. If we bisect a square from corner to opposite corner, we …