Children's Water Festival
Chatham Kent
The Scoop on Poo
Overview
Nutrient management has been in the headlines in South Western Ontario lately. Students will get a chance to learn what it is all about and how we can ensure safe water supplies for all our needs through hands-on activities using working enviroscape models of agricultural areas.
Curriculum Link
Life Systems, Grade 4 (Habitats and Communities)
Investigate the interdependence among plants, animals, and their specific habitats (O.E.)
Demonstrate an understanding of the concepts of habitat and community, and identify the factors that could affect habitats and communities of plants and animals (O.E.)
Canada and World Connections, Grade 4 (Canada’s Provinces, Territories, and Regions)
Identify Ontario’s major natural resources and their uses and management (S.E)
Relate the physical environment to economic and cultural activities in the various provinces and territories (S.E)
Identify and describe a cause-and-effect relationship between the environment and the economy in a province and territory (S.E.)
Earth and Space Systems, Grade 4 (Rocks and Minerals)
Determine the advantages and disadvantages of human alteration of the landscape (S.E)