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Urban Steward Program Praises...
“The program content material is informative, clear, and relevant to students' lives, making them think about how they are linked to their environment, [and] how they can be involved and make changes.”
Mary-Anne Purdy, Grade 7 teacher at Graham Bruce Elementary
2001-2002 Urban Stewards Participants
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Teacher Resources
Students building a living ecosystem.
The SPES-designed Urban Stewards teacher manual contains:
- Grade-specific, cross-curricular IRP connections for each activity
- Detailed hands-on lessons with time and material requirements
- Comprehensive background information for each lesson theme
- Glossary of terms for each lesson
- Ready to use worksheets
- Easy to implement action projects
- Teacher tips
- Extension ideas for each lesson
- Useful Web sites and resource lists
To supplement the Urban Stewards manual, we offer teacher-training workshops. The workshop gives teachers ideas to assist with the program's implementation and will give teachers an opportunity to practice specific activities, action projects, outdoor identification skills, and discuss strategies for using the manual in their classrooms.
As a participating teacher from 2001 said,
“This is an outstanding program. It is well laid out, thoughtful, and fun. It links well to my grade seven ecology unit.”
J. Huttunen
The manual is available for $30.00 plus $2.10 GST. Shipping extra. Payment via cheque or credit card (note: credit card admin fee extra). To order, contact:
- [ E-mail ] (school@stanleyparkecology.ca)
- Phone: 604-257-6907
