A 4-page section of the Grade 7 Nelson Science and Technology Perspectives textbook. It looks at what organisms need to survive, specifically sunlight, air, water, and food. This is a visually-rich text with tips to help students'...

[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] How do you define a living thing? What do mushrooms, daisies, cats, and bacteria have in common? All of these are living things, or organisms. It might seem hard to...

Students become connected with nature by handling and caring for another living creature. Focuses on insect care and familiarization with a meal worm.

In this activity, students act as environmental engineers involved with the clean up of a toxic spill. Using bioremediation as the process, students select which bacteria they will use to eat up the pollutant spilled. Students learn how...

Illustrated article that explains why all living things need water.

What do you need to survive? Food, water, shelter? Animals need the same things and they live in places that can provide them. This informative site looks at the characteristics, range, habitat, food, reproduction and behavior of the red...

Take an interactive quiz over ecology and ecosystems. After completing the quiz, check your score, and then revisit any incorrect question for further review.

Young children experience a wide range of emotions that they might not be able to name yet. Help students explore emotions.

For this game, you are presented with several photographs and must choose the facial expression that matches the feeling you are given.

This is a lesson of how to improve our environment as well as how to enjoy it. The students will sit in the schoolyard, study pictures of birds and then compile similarities and differences. Students will observe live birds in the yard...

Lumberjack Mack lives in a town with a beautiful forest. It's a good thing too! He needs wood and lot's of it! But what happens when all the wood is gone? Find out in this heart warming tale.