COMING SOON - FALL 2010
Historic Places of the Red River: Volume 1 & 2 plus PPT presentations and teaching tools translated to French.
Great resources, free from Rivers West, help teachers use the Red River as an example when teaching the Manitoba curriculum.
- provides teachers everything they need to teach the unit and more
- includes powerpoint presentations
- encourages hands-on, site-based learning
- provides local information so students can learn about their own neighborhood and province
- contains hundreds of activities that match Manitoba curriculum outcomes
- encourages field trips to local destinations
- utilizes local resources with links to organizations and sites
- are an excellent example of 100-mile curriculum teaching
Historic Places of the Red River: Vol. 1 & 2 Grade 4 Science Teachers Supplementary Curriculum Guide Winner of the 2006 Canadian Award of Excellence for Interpretation NOTE: Due to the large file sizes of some of the curriculum documents, the entire package is provided below in Zip format. To download this file, or any of the individual documents, right-click on the respective link and choose 'Save Target As...' Entire Curriculum Guide in Zip format Grade 8 Science Teachers Supplementary Curriculum Guide Developed for Manitoba teachers and their grade 8 students. Includes web links to resources as well as images and resources from the Manitoba Floodway Authority.
Grade 4 - 6 Social Studies Teachers
Supplementary Curriculum Guide
also contains A Teacher’s Resource for Field Trips
Volume 1 (4.3 Mb pdf)
Volume 2 (4.7 Mb pdf)
Other Resources: (large files, please download before viewing)
Historic Places of the Red River: Primer
(38 Mb PowerPoint)
Historic Places of the Red River: Field Trips Vol.1
(22.3 Mb PowerPoint)
Historic Places of the Red River: Field Trips Vol.2
(17.5 Mb PowerPoint)
St Adolphe Students Work with Rivers West Project
Grade 3 and 4 students of Ecole St. Adolphe had a unique opportunity to assist in developing and piloting a resource for the Habitats and Communities section of the Science curriculum. Rivers West, a not-for-profit organization promoting tourism and conservation along the Red River, approached the school to assist in developing a Riverbottom Forest curriculum that would give teachers resources to study this back door habitat with ease. Students were excited and honoured to be asked to do the art work for this manual. The finished product boasts full and half page colour pictures of the students’ work.
For teachers, the finished product is a binder of lesson plans which includes a CD-rom with photographs of the flora and fauna most likely to be found by students on a field trip to the riverbottom forest, a field guide colouring book for students, and other teaching aids such as colour photos and game cards. This was an exciting project for all involved!
Teacher, Ecole St. Adolphe
Riverbottom Forest Project
By Maddi Touchette
When I was in grade four we did a study of the riverbottom forest. We studied the animals, plants and riverbottom habitat. Ms Dangerfield came to our class and talked more about the above. We went on a fieldtrip to the riverbottom forest in St. Adolphe. We saw and identified many of the plants and trees we talked about. Sadly we only saw a few deer and we didn’t get to see all the animals we had studied. After the field trip we played a series of games about the riverbottom. We also did artwork that went into the guide for teachers so they can teach their students about the riverbottom forest too.
Habitat Means Home - Habitats and Communities Science Unit
Grade 4 Habitat Means Home Curriculum Guide (106 Mb)
Individual Files
Acrobat Documents:
Habitat Means Home Curriculum Guide (120 Mb)
Plant Field Guide (5 Mb)
Animal Field Guide (15 Mb)
PowerPoint Slideshows:
Habitat Means Home Curriculum Guide (8 Mb)
Plant Field Guide (14 Mb)
Animal Field Guide (16 Mb)
Red River Basin Water Systems -
Red River Basin Water Systems Curriculum Guide (12 Mb PDF document)
