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PACIFIC WEST COAST DICHOTOMOUS KEY

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SPEED OF BIOLOGY + ECOLOGICAL INTERACTIONS Objective: Become the player who has the most cards that match in the end. Setup: Each player receives a deck of cards facing down. They cannot look at the cards. HOW TO PLAY: Players begin by flipping one card over in the center at the same time. They must find relationships between the cards they flipped over. If a player spots a relationship match, they may take that pair. If there is more than one relationship between the cards, the person who spots them all may take them. NOTE. There are only pairs of relationships, so you cannot use one card to find links/relationships to other cards. If the players flip over the cards, and there are no identifiable relationships/matches, they continue to flip over cards until there are some. Once they have no more cards to flip, the players must count their pairs. The person who has the most, wins.

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SCIENCE WORLD GLOBAL REWIND COMMUNITY OUTREACH EVENT

Metro Vancouver Youth4Action and Science World TAG Team are teaming up to bring you a night of fun, exploration, and inspiration. Join high school youth leaders from across Metro Vancouver who are actively involved and passionate about creating sustainable school communities. Explore local sustainability stories, strategies, ideas and success stories to achieve your goals and to nurture appreciation and leadership at school and beyond!

Event Summary

Global Rewind was a local community event held at Vancouver’s Science World meant for educating students on how to be more sustainable and raise awareness of global environment issues. The event was mainly ran by student volunteers who wished to spread their message across their own age group. Before completing various activities they prepared for us (all involving environmental protection) they should us projects done by other schools to boost sustainability.

CLICK HERE TO VIEW THE VIDEO PROJECT EXAMPLE #1. VIDEO PROJECT EXAMPLE #2

They also performed some skits for us to watch before letting us walk around science world to explore the booths they set up. The event ended with a couple games and a huge group discussion on what should be done and how we could improve etc.

A deeper evaluation of what happened at the community event.

Scavenger Hunt around Science World: attractions related to ecology.

Auditorium for brief introduction of the evening and performance of several skits and videos shown about sustainability and how our school could make a difference. Ex: enforcing active recycling, composting, growing your own greens etc.

Exploring booths: booths covered subjects of ecology and sustainability for us to learn and also provided us with small experiments that we were allowed to bring home. Ex: planting certain plants, the rate of global warming etc.

Return to the open stage of science world to play games that educated us about the process of evolution.

The event ends with some small snacks and huge group discussion about what we learned and what we could do to make the environment a better healthier place.

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Central Park Tour Guide PDFs

SPECIES IDENTIFICATION PDFS HERE : MAIN LESSON GUIDE BRIEF HISTORY OF CENTRAL PARK PLANTS ANIMALS

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Story of the Pacific West Coast

Once upon a time, the west coast of the planet was just a vast land of sand and dust. For a millennia and millennia, nothing breathed life. Then somehow out of nothingness, a conscious grew. Along with it, a body of barren mountains surged out of the wasteland. We came to know this conscious as Mother Earth.  But Mother Earth was lonely.  And so out of her mind spurted moss, lichens, grass and weeds. Ferns such as sword, bracken and deer to make her grounds soft. Lush bushes grew to furnish her body , such as Salmonberry, Elderberry, Salal, and Huckleberry. Trees shot forth from her hands, Cedars, Hemlocks, Douglas Firs, Vine Maple, Alder and Birch decorated her land. But she was still not satisfied. She yearned for more active, vocal companions. With clay made from her earth, she breathed life into animals she sculpted. Coyotes, frogs (Pacific Tree Frog), birds (Barred/Saw-Whet Owls, Chickadees, Flickers, Bushtits, Crows etc.), bats, raccoons, snakes and squirrels alike walked across her vast creations. Then Mother Earth was finally happy. However that happiness didn’t last for long. Unwanted visitors from other lands came to invade her place. Humans came to be , overpopulating the land. They cut down her trees and unearthed her ground-growth for their expansion and growth. Humans also spread invasive species onto her earth, competing against her own creations.  Grey squirrels, rats, bullfrogs, english ivy and hollies were wrecking her peace. Even today, Mother Earth is ferociously fighting against losing her creations. And her battle will last until her last breath. (unless we do smth for her you know just sayin. stop ur trash and puLL UP ON ENVIRONMENTAL JUSTICE YALL ALREADY KNOW)