Most Popular Tools & Resources
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Our Education testkit is specifically designed with educators in mind. We’ve curated the experience to help teachers become experts in water testing, giving youth hands-on experiences by the water. In it, you’ll find 3 sets of our most popular tools: thermometers, conductivity meters, test strips containers, reacher sticks, and sample cups. You’ll also find a dissolved oxygen testkit and a reel to help you do physical surveys of water bodies you test. This testkit is perfect for groups of 15-20 students. In the teacher guide, you’ll find information on how to perform every test, tips for organizing an excursion, and detailed lesson plans. Each testkit includes:- 3 thermometers
- 3 conductivity meters (with calibration solution)
- 3 10-packs of teststrips for students (3 x 10 / container)
- 3 reacher sticks
- 3 sample cups
- 3 mini clipboards
- 3 pens
- 1 refill bottle of teststrips (50 / bottle)
- 1 dissolved oxygen testkit (30 vials)
- 1 measuring reel
- 15 stickers
- 6 badges
- 15 student cards (for filling out post-testing information)
- 1 teacher guide
- 1 teacher clipboard
- 1 hand towel
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The Looking Closely Kit includes 10 curated books accompanied by resources & equipment to support K-7 emergent inquiry outdoors! This kit was curated and created by teachers Megan Zeni, Sarah Regan and Lauren MacLean. Megan and Sarah are job share partners teaching entirely outdoors in a K-7 garden classroom. Megan shares these experiences of outdoor play and learning on Instagram and Twitter at @roomtoplay. Lauren is a K-7 mentoring support teacher who has a love for playing, learning, and teaching outdoors. She is the host of the Mentoring Nature Connections podcast and author of Me and My Sit Spot. Each kit includes book specific lesson sparks, guiding questions, and curricular connections for looking closely outdoors. Spend less time planning and more time exploring outdoors with your learners! This kit includes:- 10 curated picture books that support looking closely outdoors (see list below)
- 11 page PDF that includes a conceptual overview of looking closely with lesson sparks and guiding questions for each book
- 2 x Bugs & Slugs Nature Guide
- 2 x Butterflies & Pollinators Nature Guide
- 2 x Bees & Pollinators Nature Guide
- 10 x Handheld Field Magnifiers (with 'explore your world' lanyards)
- 1 x Two-way Nature Viewer
- 3 x pair of National Geographic Student Binoculars
- 3 x recycled backpacks to keep it all organized
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The FoodCycler is an indoor compost alternative which transforms food waste into nutrient-rich fertilizer (we call 'foodilizer') for the garden. In 4-6 hours, this compost food recycler will reduce food waste volume and weight by up to 90%, leaving a dry, odourless and sterile by-product which can be safely handled by students and teachers. The FoodCycler provides authentic, hands-on learning opportunities for students of all ages, which can be easily connected to curriculum. It can be used to complement units of study on solid waste (i.e., food waste, waste reduction). It can activate research into the science of decomposition or an inquiry into the benefits of compost. Use the fertilizer from the FoodCycler to amend soil for your indoor plants or school gardens and watch them flourish! By using a FoodCycler, you are keeping food waste out of landfills and reducing greenhouse gas emissions by up to 95% vs. sending it to the landfill. You also reduce wildlife attractants, and create a useable material to put into your school garden. The FoodCycler is:- quiet
- compact
- odourless
- easy to use
- energy efficient
- 1 x FoodCycler FC-30
- 1 x Removable Grinding Bucket
- 1 x Deodorizing Bucket Lid
- 1 x Instructional Guide
- Educational Support Materials for Schools
- Designed to eliminate odours during food cycling
- Threaded filter tops for easy twist-open, twist-closed functionality
- Includes enough carbon for 5 refills (at least 1 year of food cycling)
- Replace both filters’ carbon at the same time for maximum filtration
- After use, carbon can be applied directly to your garden!
- FoodCycler Overview
- Congratulations on your new FoodCycler!
- Félicitations pour votre nouveau FoodCycler!
- FoodCycler Learning & Action Kit
- Le kit d'apprentissage et d'action FoodCycler
- Vermicomposting & School-Based Composting: Learn about decomposition and how your FoodCycler turns food scraps into fertilizer!
- Reduce Your Food Waste: Use the FoodCycler to audit and significantly reduce your school’s food waste.
- Pollinator Garden & Grow a Food Garden: Use your FoodCycler by-product to nourish bee-friendly plants or grow vegetables in a food garden!
- Indoor Gardening & Greenhouses: Nourish your indoor plants by incorporating your by-product into their soil – or start new seeds with by-product and fresh soil!
Reduce Your Food Waste resources:EcoSchools Resource: Other Helpful Tools and Resources:For Schools: Teacher FAQ's:- Food Matters Action Kit (Commission for Environmental Cooperation) - English / French
- Taking stock: Reducing food loss and waste in Canada (Environment and Climate Change Canada) - English
- The avoidable crisis of food waste - Road Map (Second Harvest) - English
- Food waste resources (Waste Reduction Week in Canada) - English / French
- Love Food Hate Waste (National Zero Waste Council) - English / French
- Ontario: Food Waste resources (Sustain Ontario) - English / French (option at the top right of the English page)
- Ontario: Food Waste Audit Guide (Ontario Food Collaborative) - English
- How long is the warrantee? The FoodCycler comes with a standard 1-year manufacturer warrantee.
- How much power does it use per cycle? The processing time is about 4-8 hours and uses less than >0.8kWh
- Have you verified that this would accommodate the amount of organic waste that a classroom would produce in a day? We recommend running the cycle after snack time and then after lunch to accommodate the food waste.
- In the winter months in cold climates do teachers just collect this into a larger bin, say a garbage bin with a lid, and then do you dig it in garden beds in the spring when the ground has thawed? You can bin the by-product during the winter months and use it for your garden in the spring.
- Has this been found to be a wildlife attractant, or is the smell reduced enough? Can you leave it in a bin outside without risk of wildlife being attracted? Many of our pilot partners are from small rural areas where they do not have a green bin collection service and cannot compost due to the fear of attracting bears and other animals. They have not had an issue with attracting animals with the by-product of the FoodCycler!
- What is the recommended amount that this be added to the soil? We recommend adding 1-part foodilizer (the by-product generated by the FoodCycler) to a minimum of 10 parts soil. You can add more foodilizer over time.
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Strong Stories is a collection of 48 books for elementary students which share Indigenous stories and knowledge from across Turtle Island. They offer students information and ideas for connecting more deeply with the land. Written, published and illustrated by Indigenous people, this collection offers a wealth of knowledge from a variety of perspectives.Authors: -
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This kit includes 8 curated books accompanied by resources & equipment to support a K-7 soil inquiry outdoors!
This kit includes book specific lesson sparks, guiding questions, and curricular connections for playful explorations of soil in your school garden or school yard. It supports student learning across the curriculum, with a specific focus on how soil is different from dirt, and the importance of soil in our daily lives. This kit was curated and created by teachers Megan Zeni and Sarah Regan. Megan and Sarah are job share partners teaching entirely outdoors in a K-7 garden classroom. Megan shares their experiences of outdoor play and learning on Instagram and Twitter at @roomtoplay. Reduced Shipping Prices: Shipping prices have been lowered significantly since launching this kit - if you abandoned your order because of the high price, please try again! 🙂 This kit includes:- 8 curated picture books that support playful exploration of soil (see list below)
- 10-page PDF that includes a conceptual overview with lesson sparks and guiding questions for each book on a recycled & waterproof clipboard
- 1 Soil Thermometer
- 1 Waterproof Seed Starting Tray
- 1 Paper Seed Pot Maker
- 3 Magnifying Boxes
- 1 Compost Viewer
- 3 Sets of Hand Tools (3 x Trowel, Cultivator, Transplanter)
- 3 Soil Collection Jars
- 2 Handheld Field Magnifiers with 'Explore Your World' Lanyards
- 3 Recycled Drawstring Backpacks (made from recycled pop bottles!) to hold it all
- What’s Sprouting in my Trash by Ester Porter
- The Street Beneath My Feet by Charlotte Guillain and Yuval Zommer
- Up in the Garden and Down in the Dirt by Kate Messner
- My Mud Kitchen is Rad by Allison Bakkum
- Compost Stew: An A-Z Recipe for Earth by Mary McKenna Siddals
- Carl and the Meaning of Life by Deborah Freedman
- Exploring Soils: A Hidden World Underground by Samantha Grover
- Dirt: The Scoop on Soil by Natalie Rosinsky
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Join Alfred Joseph and Mara Nelson for 12 weeks of Foundational Ktunaxa Language Learning. Learn the sounds, words and some history of the Ktunaxa Language. This course is designed for you to garner skills that will enable you to carry Ktunaxa Language forward to your classrooms, in schools and on the land.- 12 x 90 minute language learning sessions on zoom
- Recorded and shared in case you can’t make all of the sessions
- Dates: Sept 18, 25 / Oct 2, 16, 23, 30 / Nov 6, 13, 20, 27 / Dec 4, 11
- $315 for all 12 sessions (includes GST)
- $252 for CBEEN Members (includes GST) - Use this code at checkout: CBEENKtunaxa2023
- $0 for Ktunaxa Nation Members - Use this code at checkout: Ktunaxa2023
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Next time you head to the ocean, you can do so as a scientist! Our Ocean Explorer kit comes with all the tools you’ll need to collect baseline information about ocean water quality. Good water quality is critical to the health of coral reefs and all the habitats in the ocean. Using this kit, you can test for some general health parameters, like temperature, salinity, pH, alkalinity, hardness, water clarity and depth. These give us an idea what conditions are like, and teach us that every region is different, through natural and unnatural conditions. For example, salinity and temperature affect water density! These tests, along with your observations on what you see, smell and hear, help give context to your environment. Each kit contains:- Thermometer (air temperature, water temperature)
- Secchi disc (water clarity or depth)
- Test strips (pH, alkalinity, nitrate, nitrite)
- Salinity Meter
- Sample container
- Ocean Explorer field notepad
- 3 Whirl pack bags
- Field guide
- 4 stickers and 3 badges
- Reacher stick
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This resource set includes 5 amazing books for early years educators that combine practical ideas & activities with educational strategies & examples to better support outdoor learning in the early years. Pulled from some of the best-selling outdoor learning in the early years resources from Canada, the United States and the UK, we've offered these as a discounted package to better support early years educators who often face financial barriers. This set includes:- The Sky Above and the Mud Below: Lessons for Nature Preschools and Forest Kindergartens
- Messy Maths: A Playful, Outdoor Approach to the Early Years
- Nature Preschools and Forest Kindergartens: The Handbook for Outdoor Learning
- Dirty Teaching: A Beginner’s Guide to Learning Outdoors
- The Big Book of Nature Activities: A Year-Round Guide to Outdoor Learning
Most Recently Added Tools & Resources
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Our Education testkit is specifically designed with educators in mind. We’ve curated the experience to help teachers become experts in water testing, giving youth hands-on experiences by the water. In it, you’ll find 3 sets of our most popular tools: thermometers, conductivity meters, test strips containers, reacher sticks, and sample cups. You’ll also find a dissolved oxygen testkit and a reel to help you do physical surveys of water bodies you test. This testkit is perfect for groups of 15-20 students. In the teacher guide, you’ll find information on how to perform every test, tips for organizing an excursion, and detailed lesson plans. Each testkit includes:
- 3 thermometers
- 3 conductivity meters (with calibration solution)
- 3 10-packs of teststrips for students (3 x 10 / container)
- 3 reacher sticks
- 3 sample cups
- 3 mini clipboards
- 3 pens
- 1 refill bottle of teststrips (50 / bottle)
- 1 dissolved oxygen testkit (30 vials)
- 1 measuring reel
- 15 stickers
- 6 badges
- 15 student cards (for filling out post-testing information)
- 1 teacher guide
- 1 teacher clipboard
- 1 hand towel
-
Sale!
The Looking Closely Kit includes 10 curated books accompanied by resources & equipment to support K-7 emergent inquiry outdoors! This kit was curated and created by teachers Megan Zeni, Sarah Regan and Lauren MacLean. Megan and Sarah are job share partners teaching entirely outdoors in a K-7 garden classroom. Megan shares these experiences of outdoor play and learning on Instagram and Twitter at @roomtoplay. Lauren is a K-7 mentoring support teacher who has a love for playing, learning, and teaching outdoors. She is the host of the Mentoring Nature Connections podcast and author of Me and My Sit Spot. Each kit includes book specific lesson sparks, guiding questions, and curricular connections for looking closely outdoors. Spend less time planning and more time exploring outdoors with your learners! This kit includes:
- 10 curated picture books that support looking closely outdoors (see list below)
- 11 page PDF that includes a conceptual overview of looking closely with lesson sparks and guiding questions for each book
- 2 x Bugs & Slugs Nature Guide
- 2 x Butterflies & Pollinators Nature Guide
- 2 x Bees & Pollinators Nature Guide
- 10 x Handheld Field Magnifiers (with 'explore your world' lanyards)
- 1 x Two-way Nature Viewer
- 3 x pair of National Geographic Student Binoculars
- 3 x recycled backpacks to keep it all organized
-
Sale!
The FoodCycler is an indoor compost alternative which transforms food waste into nutrient-rich fertilizer (we call 'foodilizer') for the garden. In 4-6 hours, this compost food recycler will reduce food waste volume and weight by up to 90%, leaving a dry, odourless and sterile by-product which can be safely handled by students and teachers. The FoodCycler provides authentic, hands-on learning opportunities for students of all ages, which can be easily connected to curriculum. It can be used to complement units of study on solid waste (i.e., food waste, waste reduction). It can activate research into the science of decomposition or an inquiry into the benefits of compost. Use the fertilizer from the FoodCycler to amend soil for your indoor plants or school gardens and watch them flourish! By using a FoodCycler, you are keeping food waste out of landfills and reducing greenhouse gas emissions by up to 95% vs. sending it to the landfill. You also reduce wildlife attractants, and create a useable material to put into your school garden. The FoodCycler is:
- quiet
- compact
- odourless
- easy to use
- energy efficient
- 1 x FoodCycler FC-30
- 1 x Removable Grinding Bucket
- 1 x Deodorizing Bucket Lid
- 1 x Instructional Guide
- Educational Support Materials for Schools
- Designed to eliminate odours during food cycling
- Threaded filter tops for easy twist-open, twist-closed functionality
- Includes enough carbon for 5 refills (at least 1 year of food cycling)
- Replace both filters’ carbon at the same time for maximum filtration
- After use, carbon can be applied directly to your garden!
- FoodCycler Overview
- Congratulations on your new FoodCycler!
- Félicitations pour votre nouveau FoodCycler!
- FoodCycler Learning & Action Kit
- Le kit d'apprentissage et d'action FoodCycler
- Vermicomposting & School-Based Composting: Learn about decomposition and how your FoodCycler turns food scraps into fertilizer!
- Reduce Your Food Waste: Use the FoodCycler to audit and significantly reduce your school’s food waste.
- Pollinator Garden & Grow a Food Garden: Use your FoodCycler by-product to nourish bee-friendly plants or grow vegetables in a food garden!
- Indoor Gardening & Greenhouses: Nourish your indoor plants by incorporating your by-product into their soil – or start new seeds with by-product and fresh soil!
Reduce Your Food Waste resources:EcoSchools Resource: Other Helpful Tools and Resources:For Schools: Teacher FAQ's:- Food Matters Action Kit (Commission for Environmental Cooperation) - English / French
- Taking stock: Reducing food loss and waste in Canada (Environment and Climate Change Canada) - English
- The avoidable crisis of food waste - Road Map (Second Harvest) - English
- Food waste resources (Waste Reduction Week in Canada) - English / French
- Love Food Hate Waste (National Zero Waste Council) - English / French
- Ontario: Food Waste resources (Sustain Ontario) - English / French (option at the top right of the English page)
- Ontario: Food Waste Audit Guide (Ontario Food Collaborative) - English
- How long is the warrantee? The FoodCycler comes with a standard 1-year manufacturer warrantee.
- How much power does it use per cycle? The processing time is about 4-8 hours and uses less than >0.8kWh
- Have you verified that this would accommodate the amount of organic waste that a classroom would produce in a day? We recommend running the cycle after snack time and then after lunch to accommodate the food waste.
- In the winter months in cold climates do teachers just collect this into a larger bin, say a garbage bin with a lid, and then do you dig it in garden beds in the spring when the ground has thawed? You can bin the by-product during the winter months and use it for your garden in the spring.
- Has this been found to be a wildlife attractant, or is the smell reduced enough? Can you leave it in a bin outside without risk of wildlife being attracted? Many of our pilot partners are from small rural areas where they do not have a green bin collection service and cannot compost due to the fear of attracting bears and other animals. They have not had an issue with attracting animals with the by-product of the FoodCycler!
- What is the recommended amount that this be added to the soil? We recommend adding 1-part foodilizer (the by-product generated by the FoodCycler) to a minimum of 10 parts soil. You can add more foodilizer over time.
-
Strong Stories is a collection of 48 books for elementary students which share Indigenous stories and knowledge from across Turtle Island. They offer students information and ideas for connecting more deeply with the land. Written, published and illustrated by Indigenous people, this collection offers a wealth of knowledge from a variety of perspectives.Authors:
-
Sale!
This kit includes 8 curated books accompanied by resources & equipment to support a K-7 soil inquiry outdoors!
This kit includes book specific lesson sparks, guiding questions, and curricular connections for playful explorations of soil in your school garden or school yard. It supports student learning across the curriculum, with a specific focus on how soil is different from dirt, and the importance of soil in our daily lives. This kit was curated and created by teachers Megan Zeni and Sarah Regan. Megan and Sarah are job share partners teaching entirely outdoors in a K-7 garden classroom. Megan shares their experiences of outdoor play and learning on Instagram and Twitter at @roomtoplay. Reduced Shipping Prices: Shipping prices have been lowered significantly since launching this kit - if you abandoned your order because of the high price, please try again! 🙂 This kit includes:- 8 curated picture books that support playful exploration of soil (see list below)
- 10-page PDF that includes a conceptual overview with lesson sparks and guiding questions for each book on a recycled & waterproof clipboard
- 1 Soil Thermometer
- 1 Waterproof Seed Starting Tray
- 1 Paper Seed Pot Maker
- 3 Magnifying Boxes
- 1 Compost Viewer
- 3 Sets of Hand Tools (3 x Trowel, Cultivator, Transplanter)
- 3 Soil Collection Jars
- 2 Handheld Field Magnifiers with 'Explore Your World' Lanyards
- 3 Recycled Drawstring Backpacks (made from recycled pop bottles!) to hold it all
- What’s Sprouting in my Trash by Ester Porter
- The Street Beneath My Feet by Charlotte Guillain and Yuval Zommer
- Up in the Garden and Down in the Dirt by Kate Messner
- My Mud Kitchen is Rad by Allison Bakkum
- Compost Stew: An A-Z Recipe for Earth by Mary McKenna Siddals
- Carl and the Meaning of Life by Deborah Freedman
- Exploring Soils: A Hidden World Underground by Samantha Grover
- Dirt: The Scoop on Soil by Natalie Rosinsky
-
Join Alfred Joseph and Mara Nelson for 12 weeks of Foundational Ktunaxa Language Learning. Learn the sounds, words and some history of the Ktunaxa Language. This course is designed for you to garner skills that will enable you to carry Ktunaxa Language forward to your classrooms, in schools and on the land.
- 12 x 90 minute language learning sessions on zoom
- Recorded and shared in case you can’t make all of the sessions
- Dates: Sept 18, 25 / Oct 2, 16, 23, 30 / Nov 6, 13, 20, 27 / Dec 4, 11
- $315 for all 12 sessions (includes GST)
- $252 for CBEEN Members (includes GST) - Use this code at checkout: CBEENKtunaxa2023
- $0 for Ktunaxa Nation Members - Use this code at checkout: Ktunaxa2023
-
Next time you head to the ocean, you can do so as a scientist! Our Ocean Explorer kit comes with all the tools you’ll need to collect baseline information about ocean water quality. Good water quality is critical to the health of coral reefs and all the habitats in the ocean. Using this kit, you can test for some general health parameters, like temperature, salinity, pH, alkalinity, hardness, water clarity and depth. These give us an idea what conditions are like, and teach us that every region is different, through natural and unnatural conditions. For example, salinity and temperature affect water density! These tests, along with your observations on what you see, smell and hear, help give context to your environment. Each kit contains:
- Thermometer (air temperature, water temperature)
- Secchi disc (water clarity or depth)
- Test strips (pH, alkalinity, nitrate, nitrite)
- Salinity Meter
- Sample container
- Ocean Explorer field notepad
- 3 Whirl pack bags
- Field guide
- 4 stickers and 3 badges
- Reacher stick
-
This resource set includes 5 amazing books for early years educators that combine practical ideas & activities with educational strategies & examples to better support outdoor learning in the early years. Pulled from some of the best-selling outdoor learning in the early years resources from Canada, the United States and the UK, we've offered these as a discounted package to better support early years educators who often face financial barriers. This set includes:
- The Sky Above and the Mud Below: Lessons for Nature Preschools and Forest Kindergartens
- Messy Maths: A Playful, Outdoor Approach to the Early Years
- Nature Preschools and Forest Kindergartens: The Handbook for Outdoor Learning
- Dirty Teaching: A Beginner’s Guide to Learning Outdoors
- The Big Book of Nature Activities: A Year-Round Guide to Outdoor Learning
