Biodiversity Hike:
We have three different Biodiversity lessons to choose from!
Biodiversity Hike
Explore Toronto Island and its Biodiversity with a hike through the gardens, fields, shorelines and forests. Students will observe and study plants and animals through various activities (including feeding chickadees) as they hike the trails on the island.
Curriculum Connections: Science
Garden Biodiversity
Both our Raised Bed and Medicine Garden are planted and maintained by visiting students. During the fall and spring students will participate in a range of activities from planting or collecting seeds, amending the soil, weeding, harvesting, watering. Preparing and cooking their own biscuit flavoured with fresh herbs from the garden is a favorite part of this lesson!
Curriculum Connections: Science
Surveying Biodiversity on the Island
Explore the biodiversity of Toronto Island through a Citizen Science project. Collect and analyse data on biodiversity and biodiversity loss on the island.
Curriculum Connections: Science, Math, Social Studies
Students will be introduced to the concept of biodiversity through an inquiry of natural habitats on the Island. The impact of humans (pollution, invasive species introduction, overpopulation), weather and disease will be discussed on a local and global level. Weather permitting, students will feed chickadees off of their hands.