Exploring nature in your backyard, local park or natural area can be a lot of fun and has real benefits for our social, emotion and physical well being. To facilitate this exploration we have created a variety of tools to help our students broaden their appreciation of the biodiversity found in Waterloo while also deepening their knowledge of how to identify individual species.
We are providing these resources here for use by teachers, students and our community in the hopes that more people will get outside and enjoy nature. Please understand that these resources are not exhaustive explorations of all species in our region but simply the most likely ones that students will encounter. A lot of work goes into making these resources, all are creative commons license (non-commercial), please share them appropriately.
These resources are free to dowload. To obtain your own copy of these resources we ask that you share your email address, how you intend to use the resource and where you are. We don’t use your email address for anything other than authenticating each download as unique.
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Trees – Winter |
Poster Al Woodhouse and Levi Moore 2023 |
2 feet by 3 feet |
Great resource for winter time walks exploring the trees in your schoolyard or local park. It turns out trees are easy to identify in the winter too, just look at the buds! |
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Trees – by Leaves |
Poster Al Woodhouse and Levi Moore 2023 |
2 feet by 3 feet | |
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Aquatic Invertebrates |
Poster Al Woodhouse and Levi Moore 2023 |
2 feet by 3 feet | |
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Terrestrial Invertebrates |
Poster Al Woodhouse and Levi Moore, 2022 |
2 feet by 3 feet | |
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Backyard Birds |
Poster Al Woodhouse and Levi Moore, 2022 |
2 feet by 3 feet | This poster is intended for use in the winter. |
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Trees by Twigs |
Identification Key of Common Ontario Trees by Twig Al Woodhouse and Levi Moore |
8.5 x 11 4 pages |
Excellent resource for identifying trees in winter |
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Common Schoolyard Trees by Leaf |
Identification Key Al Woodhouse and Levi Moore |
8.5 x 11 4 pages |
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Aquatic Invertebrates Worksheet |
Worksheet / ID guide with nature facts and pollution tolerance Levi Moore |
8.5 x 14 1 page |
Guide to the most common aquatic invertebrates in Ontario. |
| Grounds for a Bright Future |
Book Edward Cheskey, 2006
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8.5 x 11 | A guide to school ground transformation and greening in Waterloo Region District School Board |