Resources are designed to assist educators with promoting 3Rs (Reduce, Reuse, and Recycle) concepts and support continued learning. If you have any questions or would like ideas on how to expand learning, please contact us.

Activities 

• Make Your Own Recycled Paper (PDF)
• Make Your Own Beeswax Food Wraps (PDF)
• Time To Decompose (PDF)
• That's Ridiculous! (True or False) (PDF)
• Food Waste Line Match (PDF)
• How Far Does My Food Travel? (PDF)
• Garbage Habits at Home Survey (PDF)
• Tour Worksheet (Grade 4+) (PDF)
• Waste-Free Lunch Day (PDF)
• Kitchen Catcher Origami (PDF)
• Let's Circle Back! (Grade 6+) (PDF)

Colouring Sheets

• 3Rs Recycling (PDF)
• La Boite Bleue (PDF)
• Recycle Bin (PDF)
• Garbage Truck (PDF)
• Recycle BC Colouring Book (PDF)

Lesson Plans

• How Is Paper Recycled? (PDF)
• Engineered Landfills (PDF)
• What's in Your Garbage? (PDF)
• 3Rs Hierarchy Educator's Guide 2014 (PDF)
• Zero Heroes, Planet Protector Academy Grade 3 - 6 online modules

Online Game

• Ready, Set, Sort

Audio and Video

• Hartland Landfill Aerial Tour
• Hartland Landfill - A Year of Garbage
• The History of Garbage
• Garbage at Hartland Landfill
• Take a Recycling Home Tour

Background Resources

• How a Landfill Works (PDF)
• What happens in a landfill? (PDF)
• History of Garbage in the CRD (PDF)
• Hartland Landfill Waste Composition (PDF)
• 5R Pollution Prevention Hierarchy (PDF)

Where does our garbage go? Read more>>
What can be recycled and where? Read more>>
What are the rules and regulations behind managing our waste? Read more>>

Raise awareness about our connection with rainwater and watersheds in the capital region and empower students to protect our local waterways, ocean and environment with these resources.

Activities

• Scavenger Hunts -  Backyard Birds and  Wetland Birds (PDF)
• Watershed Bingo (PDF)
• Watershed Story (PDF)
• Where Does Your Storm Drain Lead? (PDF)
• Invasive Species Council of BC online games & activity sheets

Colouring Sheets

• Water Cycle (PDF)
• Watershed Creek (PDF)
• Watershed Wildlife (PDF)
• People and Watersheds (PDF)
• Watershed Word Search and Maze (PDF)

Lesson Plans

• What Is A Watershed? (PDF)
• Watershed Web of Life (PDF)
• What's in Your Yard (Invasive Species) (PDF)
• Rainwater and Watersheds Educator's Resource (PDF)
• K-12 Stream to Sea Stewardship and Sustainability lesson plans
• Invasive Species Council of BC lesson plans

Videos

• Pollution Prevention Playlist
• Watershed Stewardship Playlist

Other

• Watersheds of Greater Victoria School Version
• Local watershed maps and flow diagrams
• Look Inside A Watershed (PDF)
• Clean Green Cookbook (PDF) - anything that goes down the drain can end up in the ocean. Explore environmentally-safe alternatives to most household cleaners.
• Seek by iNaturalist (all ages)
• iNaturalist (ages 13+)

Help students discover that "every drop counts" with these activities and resources all about conserving our local drinking water.

Activities

• Become a Leak Detective! (PDF)
• Weekly Water Use Chart (K-3) (PDF)
• Weekly Water Use Chart (4+) (PDF)
• Indoor Water Use (High School) (PDF)
• Colouring and Puzzles
  • Use Drinking Water Wisely (PDF)
  • Maze and Word Search (PDF)
  • Proteger l'Eau Potable (PDF)
  • Page de Jeux! (PDF)

Lesson Plans

• Where Does Our Water Come From? (PDF)
• Every Drop Counts Grade 2 Educator's Guide (PDF)
• Water in Our Community Grade 8 – 12 Educator's Guide, 2008 (PDF)
• H2Whoa! Planet Protector Academy Grade 3 - 6 online modules

Audio and Video

• Down the Drain & Back Again (video)
• Down the Drain and Back Again (script)
• Drip, Drip, Drop Sing-along (video)
• Drip, Drip, Drop Sing-along (lyrics)
• Greater Victoria Water Supply System: An Overview (video)
• Greater Victoria Water Supply Area (video)
• Greater Victoria Water Supply System: Treatment and Transmission (video)

Maps and Images

• Drinking Water in Numbers (PDF)
• Water Use Images (PDF)
• Greater Victoria Drinking Water Supply System (PDF)
• Greater Victoria Watersheds Map (with schools labelled) (PDF)
  

Borrow an Every Drop Counts Educator's Kit. The kit includes a hardcopy Educator's Guidebook, DVD, CD, books and select activity materials. Request online or call CRD Education at 250.360.3133.

Where Our Water Comes From

Where does Greater Victoria's drinking water come from? Read more>>
How much water is in the Sooke Lake Reservoir this week? Read more>>
How is our drinking water protected? Read more>>
What is the quality of our drinking water? Read more>>

The majority of regional greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions come from transportation, buildings (heating, cooling, lighting, etc.) and managing solid waste. Explore the resources below to create discussions and discover simple actions we can take to reduce individual impacts.

Activities

• Transportation Choice Line Match (PDF)
• Transportation Choice Memory (PDF)
• Active Transportation Scavenger Hunt (PDF)
• Ready Step Roll Bingo (PDF)
• Backyard Obstacle Course (PDF)

Lesson Plans

• Move Your Feet (PDF)
• Become an Energy Detective (PDF)
• Energy Users Scavenger Hunt (PDF)
• Keep Cool, Planet Protector Academy Grade 3 - 6 online modules
• Restez Cool, L’Académie des gardiens de la planète Grade 3 - 6 modules en ligne

Climate Action To-Go Kits

These kits are a fun and easy way to learn about what you can do at home to reduce energy use and GHG emissions. Use with the Kill-A-Watt Meter to measure appliance electricity use, discover air leaks with the Thermal Leak Detector and more. Borrow a kit.

• About Climate Action To Go Kits (PDF)
• Kit Contents (PDF)

Growing Solutions

Understanding what goes into producing our meals can make us more aware of the relationship between food and climate change; helping us make better choices. Want to know what fruit and vegetables are in season in the region right now? Download the Growing Solutions Fresh Food Calendar.

Regional parks protect natural areas which provide important habitats for many living things. Use the resources below to learn more about the living things that can be found in our parks.

Identification Guides

• Common Wildflowers of Southern Vancouver Island (PDF)
• Mosses of the Pacific Northwest (PDF)
• Seaweeds of the Pacific Northwest (PDF)
• Local Lichens of South Coastal BC (PDF)
• Summer Shoreline Birds (PDF)
• Winter Shoreline Birds (PDF)
• Animal Tracks Guide (PDF)

Crafts

• Bat Hat (PDF)
• Eagle Hat (PDF)

Videos

• Birding Basics
• Forest Bathing
• Seaweeds
• Shore Birds and Dogs
• Signs of Spring