Species at Risk Curriculum Species at Risk curiculum binder.
Lennox and Addington (L&A) Stewardship Council produced Species at Risk Curriculum Units for grade 4 and 7 teachers with support from OMNR’s Species at Risk Stewardship Fund. In 2008 a partnership was formed between volunteers on LGSC and L & A Councils to adapt and transfer the curriculum to Leeds and Grenville Counties.
The adaptation was completed by two local teachers, Rich Tamblyn and Lianne Swann, who incorporated information on species at risk in Leeds and Grenville Counties into the curriculum. By the end of 2010, 57 teachers in Leeds and Grenville had received training and a copy of the curriculum binders and were Implementing the curriculum in their classes. Cathy Sawyer-Griffin and Corinne McCaffrey have provided the critical support from the Upper Canada District School Board. | Workshops were held early in 2011 to train teachers with the
newly developed species at risk curriculum. The training workshops and the curriculum itself have been well received by all teachers involved, with over 40 teachers participating. LGSC has been continuing to work closely with the species at risk curriculum development team of teachers Rich Tamblyn and Lianne Swann, to add to the existing curriculum. 2011’s focus has been the development and inclusion of new curriculum lessons focussed on species at risk on the farm and in the woodlot. These new additions will be implemented early in 2012 and will be distributed to classrooms using the existing curriculum. Bird Studies Canada has also developed a curriculum based lesson focussed on chimney swifts, a threatened bird species in Ontario. This curriculum package will be delivered to classes throughout Ontario and via the LGSC, will be delivered to classrooms with the existing species at risk curriculum.  |
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