Lesson Plans
Alberta-Pacific provides teachers with environmental-based lesson plans that are tailored to a variety of grades and curriculums. Lesson plan modules focus on biodiversity, sustainability, climate change, fire ecology, water quality and land use. Each of the modules connects directly with Alberta Education curriculum and comes complete with Specific Learner Expectations, grade level/subject cross-references and extension opportunities. To download a lesson plan, click the download link in the description column.

Activities Master List

Grade Level
Type of Activity
Description
Key Topic
General
Outdoor
All Grades -- Tips for Teaching Outdoors

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General
Outdoor
Elementary -- Openers & Closers

Quick, fun, and easy-to-organize activities you can use in your classroom, schoolyard, or local forest area.

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Biodiversity
Grade 5
Outdoor
Wonderful Wetland Field Trip
  • Grade 5 Science: Wetland Ecosystems SLE #1,2,3,6,8
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Water quality/quantity, Biodiversity
Grade 8
Outdoor
Water Quality Field Study
  • Grade 8 Science- Fresh and Salt Water Systems
    • Outcomes for Science, Technology and Society- 3 & 4
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Water quality/quantity, Biodiversity, Land Use
Grade 9
Outdoor
Water Quality Survey
  • Grade 9 Science- Environmental Chemistry
    • Outcomes for STS and Knowledge #1, 2
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Water quality/quantity, Biodiversity, Land Use
Biology 20 Science 20
Outdoor
Terrestrial & Aquatic Field Study
  • Biology 20, Unit A: Energy and Matter Exchange in the Biosphere
    (2006 Implementation)
    • 20-B1.2k 20-B1.3k 20-B1.2s 20-B1.3s 20-B1.4s
  • Science 20, Unit B: Changes in Living Systems (2006 Implementation)
    • D1.1k   20-D1.2s
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Water quality/quantity, Biodiversity, Land Use, Fire/Natural Disturbance
Grade 7
Grade 9
Biology 20
Grade 6
In-Class
Wildlife What-Am-I ? Diversity in the Forest
  • Grade 7 Science: Unit A: Interactions & Ecosystems (STS & Knowledge Outcomes 1-4)
  • Grade 9 Science: Unit A: Biological Diversity (STS & Knowledge Outcomes 1, 4)
  • Extension Biology 20: Unit D: Population & Community Dynamics
  • Extension Grade 6 Science: Unit E: Trees & Forests
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Biodiversity, Land Use
Grade 7
Science 20 Biology 30
In-Class
Stages in Succession
  • Grade 7 Science: Unit A: Interactions & Ecosystems (STS & Knowledge Outcomes 1, 3)
  • Science 20: Unit D: Changes in Living Systems (20-D1.2k, 20-D1.3k)
  • Biology 30: Unit D: Population & Community Dynamics (30-D2.3k)

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Biodiversity, Land Use, Fire/Natural Disturbance
All Levels
In-Class
My Community-Ecological Design

All grades

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Sustainability, Land Use
Grade 7
Grade 8
CTS Forestry
In-Class
Managing the Forest
  • Grade 7 Science: Unit A: Interactions & Ecosystems (STS & Knowledge Outcomes 1, 4)
  • Grade 7 Science: Unit B: Plants for Food & Fibre (STS & Knowledge Outcomes 1, 4)
  • Grade 8 Science: Unit A: Fresh & Saltwater Systems (STS & Knowledge Outcomes 4)
  • CTS Forestry (FOR1010: Why Forestry?, FOR1100: Forest Use and Protection, FOR2030: Managing Alberta's Forests, FOR2070: Harvest Practices)
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Sustainability, Land Use
Grade 9
Science 20
Biology 20
Biology 30
Project
Research the Research
  • Grade 9 Science- Biological Diversity
  • Science 20, Unit D: Changes in Living Systems (2006 Implementation)
    • 20-D1.1sts 20-B1.2sts 20-B1.2s 20-B1.4s
  • Biology 20, Unit B: Ecosystems and Population Change (2007 Implementation)
    • 20-B1.1k 20-B1.4k 20-B1.1sts 20-B1.2s 20-B1.4s
  • Biology 30, Unit D: Population and Community Dynamics (2007 Implementation)
    • 30-D1.1sts 30-D2.1k 30-D2.1sts
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Sustainability, Climate change
All Levels
Outdoor/ Indoor
Summary of Field Trip Sites, Resource Providers, & Information Links
  • All Grades
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All
Biology 30
Indoor
Status of Woodland Caribou in Alberta
  • Biology 30, Unit D: Population and Community Dynamics (2007 Implementation)
    • 30-D1.1sts 30-D2.1k 30-D2.1sts
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Biodiversity, Land Use
Biology 30
Indoor
Change in Populations and Communities
  • Biology 30, Unit D: Population and Community Dynamics (2007 Implementation)
    • 30-D1.1sts 30-D2.1k 30-D2.1sts
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Biodiversity, Land Use
Biology 20
Indoor
Energy and Matter Exchange in Ecosystems, Concept 1
  • Biology 20, Unit B: Ecosystems and Population Change (2007 Implementation)
    • 20-B1.1k 20-B1.4k 20-B1.1sts 20-B1.2s 20-B1.4s


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Biodiversity, Land Use
Biology 20
Indoor
Energy and Matter Exchange in Ecosystems, Concept 2

 

  • Biology 20, Unit B: Ecosystems and Population Change (2007 Implementation)
    • 20-B1.1k 20-B1.4k 20-B1.1sts 20-B1.2s 20-B1.4s
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Biodiversity, Land Use
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