Activity 1: Visit a local Museum
Plan a field trip. Check Museum holdings on "Species Account Pages"
to see what collections supplement your lessons.
Activity 2: Have the Museum visit you!
Phone your local Museum to see if they have Education Programmes
which will come to your school. For instance, Kelowna Centennial
Museum offers "Owls -- Eyes of the Night," and "Insects
and Spiders" for Grades K to 4.
Activity 3: Invite a Guest Speaker to your classroom
This could be someone from the Naturalists' Club, or a Scientist
from the Museum or University.
Activity 4: Visit a local Bird Sanctuary
Become a Birdwatcher.
Activity 5: Learn about Fish!
Visit the Environmental Education Centre at Mission Creek Regional Park
(behind Orchard Park in Kelowna) to find out all about fish spawning and
life cycles. Discover if the Kokanee are a threatened species.
Activity 6: Form a Partnership
Talk to local store owners to see if they would allow you to display posters
about endangered species in their stores. (Wild Birds Nature Shop
and The Body Shop are two companies who strongly support the protection
of species.) This display could coincide with Wildlife Week or Education
Week, or your own endangered species awareness week!
Activity 7: Experiment with Camouflage
* Students will discover how camouflage helps hide insects.
Materials: clear plastic cups and boxes of coloured
toothpicks. (If coloured toothpicks aren't available dye the toothpicks:
100 red, 100 blue, 100 green, 100 natural).
Procedure: discuss camouflage with students and then
take them to a plot of grass about 16 metres square, where you have
spread the toothpick "insects". Give the students five
minutes to find the insects and put them into their clear plastic
cups. Back in the classroom, count the toothpicks and graph the
results. Discuss which "insects" were better camouflaged
and why.
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