Free Downloads for Educators and Students

Taking Action!

Using knowledge to take action - big or small - can be empowering and a very beneficial learning experience.  Provides inspiring examples and step-by-step ideas on activities you might undertake from beginner to advanced level.  Let us know how you did and become recognized as one of our “Wetland Heroes”.

Taking Action!
Teacher and Student
Guide
(28-page; PDF, 22 MB)
en français

Become a Wetland Hero!
Submit your experience
with DUCKS and become
a Wetland Hero!
(PDF, 628 KB)
en français

Field Trips

Make the most of your wetland field trip whether you plan to be led by a trained naturalist or go on your own.

Field Trip Guide
(PDF, 16 MB)

Student Field Notebook
(PDF, 2.73 MB)
en français

Wetlands and the World

Explore exciting cross-cultural resources about wetlands and create your own 3-D paper animal models.
Includes:

• Wetlands and the World (10.5 MB) — Teachers guide and activity sheets
• Picture Dictionary (2.6 MB) — includes key vocabulary words from this unit with space for students to write the words in their first language or to create their own pronunciation or reminder notes.
• Wetlands Around the World (3.8 MB) — This presentation explores wetlands around the world and their value. Teachers’ notes are included.

Paper Animal Models

Duck Detectives

Explores migration and the need to protect habitats throughout Canada and North America.  Introduces students to bird banding and its role in scientific research and accompanies this with a fun Internet activity looking at the lifecycles of ducks from different parts of Canada

Salt Marshes: Interactions & Ecosystems (Gr. 7 – 9)

Free Downloadable Resources

Wetland Ecosystems I - Habitats, Communities and the Diversity of Life

Grades 4-6

Educator's guide with nine lesson plans and accompanying Student Journal. Includes hands-on activities and resource materials addressing adaptations, life cycles, food webs, interactions, environmental stress and conservation using wetland communities to illustrate concepts.

Wetland Ecosystems II - Interactions and Ecosystems

Grades 7 - 8

Educators’ Guide and Student Journal with seven lesson plans and four field activities.  Assists educators in presenting cross-curricular science material and evaluating student learning. Includes wetland types, energy pyramids, abiotic factors, feeding adaptations and organism relationships, population effects, human interventions and other ecological concepts. Field activities demonstrate sampling techniques, observation, team work, safety procedures, data analysis, experimentation and use of technology.

Wetland Ecosystems III - Evolution, Diversity and Sustainability of Ecosystems

Secondary School

Educators’ Guide and Student Journal address environmental impacts, socio-political considerations in environmental solutions, biodiversity, sustainable development, adaptations, natural selection, wetland types, pollution and taxonomy. Includes a strong field component where students learn about sampling techniques, observation, teamwork, safety procedures, data analysis, experimentation and use of technology.