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  Sustaining and Expanding the Urban Forest; Toronto's strategic Forest Management Plan

  Published by the city of Toronto's Parks, Recreation and Forestry Department, this source is a combination of data collected on Toronto's Urban Forest landscape as well as potential strategies and programs to sustain them.  It...

  Type:Research
  Topic:Biodiversity, Ecosystems, Natural Resources
  Subject:Science, Geography, Social Studies, Environmental Studies
  Level:Secondary
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  The Heat is On!

    Students will predict the impacts of climate change on a local forested environment. This lesson plan is focused on introducing students to the changes in forested ecosystems that are expected with climate change....

  Type:Lesson Plan
  Topic:Biodiversity, Ecosystems, Natural Resources
  Subject:Science, Geography, Environmental Studies, Earth Science, Environmental Science
  Level:Intermediate / Middle, Secondary
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  The Timing of Tapping for Maple Sap Collection

  This 8 page article summarizes research done in Vermont to help maple syrup producers answer an important question: What tapping of maple trees time frame results in the highest maple sap yield?

  Type:Research
  Topic:Biodiversity, Ecosystems, Food and Agriculture
  Subject:Science, Geography, Family/Consumer Studies, Social Studies, Environmental Studies
  Level:Intermediate / Middle, Secondary
  Grade: 7 8 9 10 11 12
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  What does biodiversity have to do with the food we eat?

  Students keep a daily food log for three days. After, they investigate how their food consumption depends on genetic and species diversity.

  Type:Lesson Plan
  Topic:Biodiversity, Ecosystems, Food and Agriculture
  Subject:Mathematics, Science, Health & Wellbeing
  Level:Primary / Elementary
  Grade:JK K 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8
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  What is Biological Diversity?

  Students play a round of “musical chairs” using drawings of different species in a food web. The disappearance of “chairs” signals the extinction of that species. Students learn how the extinction of species...

  Type:Lesson Plan
  Topic:Biodiversity, Ecosystems
  Subject:Science, Environmental Studies, Biology
  Level:Primary / Elementary
  Grade:JK K 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8
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