Online lunch and learns for students
Conservation educators offer remote learning; plans for spring programs remain in place
Lunch-and-learn videos now available on YouTube
Conservation educators at Ausable Bayfield Conservation Authority (ABCA) have offered support to the watershed community though new learning opportunities, which are offered at no cost thanks to program sponsors Canada Nature Fund; Environment and Climate Change Canada’s EcoAction Community Funding Program; and ABCA.
Two new online synchronous (when there is live interaction between ABCA conservation educators and students) learning programs were created for watershed teachers.
The Species at Risk program, with funding support from Canada Nature Fund of Fisheries and Oceans Canada, teaches students about local species at risk, including turtles, mussels and fish, found in the Ausable River.
The second program, Wonderful Wetlands, focuses on the at-risk habitat of wetlands and is sponsored by the EcoAction Community Funding Program.
Additional support for teachers is found on ABCA’s website, abca.ca, which has a teacher’s resources section with printables, lesson plans and educational website links.
People can now watch Ausable Bayfield Conservation's conservation educators, on YouTube, with the posting of a series of free presentations.
Ausable Bayfield Conservation first broadcast these videos, as live ‘lunch and learn presentations’ from 12:00-12:30 for each of these topics. The lunch and learn presentations are now available, for viewing at your convenience, on Ausable Bayfield Conservation’s YouTube channel here:
Links to the YouTube videos are below:
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First broadcast on Friday, January 29 |
– Species At Risk (geared to students in grades 4-6) Watch now: |
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First broadcast on Tuesday, February 2 |
– Wonderful Wetlands (geared to students grades 4-6) Watch now: |
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First broadcast on Friday, February 5 |
– Species At Risk (geared to students in grades 7-12) Watch now: |
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First broadcast on Tuesday, February 9 |
– River Safety – Flooding Facts (geared to students in grades 4-6) Watch now: |
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First broadcast on Friday, February 12 |
– Water and Wetlands (geared to students K-3) Watch now: |
If you would like to chat with educators about these programs, please call 519-235-2610, or toll-free 1-888-286-2610, extension 255 or 262.
You can also email our conservation educators through our staff contacts page:
To register or to find out more visit the abca.ca website’s education web page at this link:
In addition to remote learning opportunities, this March, the conservation educators are ABCA are planning spring sessions of Oaks and Acorns; Coyotes & Pups; Muskrats; and Outdoor School.
To register or to find out more visit the abca.ca website’s education web page at this link:
“Conservation educator Nina Sampson and myself are available to chat and we are keen to help teachers or parents in any way we can,” said Denise Iszczuk, conservation educator. “Step one to learning about nature is to plan time to get outside every day.”
This project was undertaken with the financial support of the Government of Canada. Ce projet a été realisé avec l'appui financier du gouvernement du Canada
