Category
SHSM
Duration
Half-Day
Grade
Grade 11, Grade 12
On-a-Roll In Your Schoolyard
No
Season
May-October
Program Outline
Students visit our beaver ponds to collect benthic macroinvertebrates (bottom-dwelling creatures) and utilize key anatomical features to assist in identifying the species of benthic. This program emphasizes the importance of each species to the pond ecosystem. Students will then complete a benthic station gallery walk to demonstrate their species ID skills.
Education
Education Staff
Please contact us on how we may help in presenting the appropriate safety, supervision and risk management information to your administrators or if you have further questions for GRCA Teachers and programming.
education@grca.on.ca
T: 905.885.8173
Administration Office
2216 County Road 28
Port Hope, ON L1A 3V8
T: 905.885.8173
F: 905.885.9824
Ganaraska Forest Centre
10585 Cold Springs Camp Road
Campbellcroft, ON L0A 1B0
T: 905.885.8173
F: 905.797.2545