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Canadian Kids Make a Difference! Every year all across Canada, students are working hard to protect wildlife and wild places! Read about what some of them are doing below, or use the map to find stellar schools in your province! If your class has a story to tell, please send it (along with photos if you have them) to schools@wwfcanada.org and you might be the next to be featured on our website! 2003-2004 Projects
(Past projects: 2006-2007, 2005-2006, 2004-2005, 2003-2004, 2002-2003, 2001-2002, 2000-2001, 1999-2000) |
| Alberta |
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 Eating cookies
saves tigers
The grade 5H and 5K classes from Camilla School in Riviere Que Barre, Alberta made yummy cookies, raised awareness about endangered tigers and raised money for WWF’s tiger program. Their successful cookie sale featured “Did you know” tiger fact posters as well as a life-sized tiger cut out. |
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Taking edu-action to a whole new level!
At New Horizons School in Sherwood Park, Alberta the Students Aware of our World (S.A.W.) Club took on oodles of projects this year to protect wild places and wildlife. A school-wide recycling program for juice boxes, paper and bottles. The monies raised from their recycling efforts went to symbolically adopting a tiger through WWF. The S.A.W. Club also started vermicomposting and an energy saving and awareness campaign with reminders all over the school to turn lights off and turn the heat down. They declared the month of March “Marmot Month”, held a Walk to School Day during a Climate Change Awareness Week AND organized a school grounds clean up day at the end of April. If all of this isn’t enough to celebrate, the club also started a school greening project and they publish a monthly newsletter “The Green Gazette” that shares their activity updates with the students’ families and features endangered species vignettes and energy saving tips for the home. They use the WWF website (www.wwf.ca) as reference for their newsletter content. Students also entered the Robert Bateman Art and Writing Contest this year and Tonje Caine (Teacher Advisor to the S.A.W. Club) is using the WWF lesson plans and activities in her school. Congratulations S.A.W. – you are true examples of environmental action! |
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Dear Hon. Ralph Klein…
Ms. Sergo and her grade 4/5 class from St. Patrick’s School in Taber, Alberta, have been studying the province’s threatened and endangered species. The students are particularly concerned about the grizzly bear population in Alberta, which has been designated as “Special Concern” by the Committee on the Status of Endangered Wildlife in Canada (COSEWIC). Instead of sitting back and growling about it, they have generated awareness for this issue through an informative bulletin board in their school and expressed their concerns for the upcoming grizzly hunt in letters to Premier Ralph Klein. |
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TV worth watching
Sisters Janel and Laine from St. John Fine Arts School in Calgary, Alberta had no idea what kind of morning they were going to have when they turned on the Discovery Channel before going to school. They started watching “Countdown to Extinction” (one of WWF’s TV programs) and were moved to tears – so much so that they and their friend Tara had to take action. Their teacher Ms. Finlan, the girls and their classmates held a raffle ticket sale to help WWF. Janel and Laine’s mom even embroidered two shirts with polar bears for prizes! Thank you Janel, Laine and Tara – you’ve proved that individuals can make a difference. |
| British Columbia |
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Year round action
Mary Hill Elementary School students (Division 3) in Port Coquitlam, British Columbia, have spent this year learning how they can have a positive impact on the world and how to make it a better place to live. They’ve initiated an energy saving campaign, Garbage Free Lunches, tree planting and storm drain fish painting. They’ve also been learning about salmon through a salmon fry release program and they’re studying how plants grow with classroom tomato plants. On top of all of this – they’re using a school worm composter to reduce their impact on the planet AND they’ve symbolically adopted a tiger, wolf and a dolphin through WWF. Thank you for taking action! |
 Cleaning
up north Vancouver
Students and teacher Sharon Bowen from Norgate School in North Vancouver participated in a shoreline cleanup. They collected and tabulated the debris they found along the shore. This action helps to not only protect wildlife and habitats, it raises awareness about the need to reduce consumption! |
 The
art of saving rainforests
The grade 1/2 students from Bowen Island Community School in Bowen Island, British Columbia, decided to make a difference for the rainforest by creating rainforest themed works of art and selling them to raise money. |
| Manitoba |
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Kids for saving earth
George Fitton School’s Kids for Saving Earth Club in Brandon, Manitoba took their club’s name to heart. Students brought in used toys and books and held a fundraising sale. Not only did they raise money to protect wildlife and wild places, they are reducing the amount of unwanted items going to landfills. |
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Pennies that add up
Pacific Junction School’s grade 3 class from Winnipeg, Manitoba brought in pennies and used them for a variety of Math activities and then donated the money collected to WWF. These pennies really do help the planet. |
| New Brunswick |
These boots are made for walkin’Students from Wulastukw Elementary School, Kingsclear First Nation in New Brunswick participated in a walkathon as part of their Earth Day Celebrations. The school held a penny drive and collected donations for WWF. They got great exercise and helped wildlife! |
| Northwest Territories |
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The sweet taste of saving wildlife
N.J. Macpherson School students were treated to a bake sale organized by Ms. Lee’s grade 3 class in Yellowknife, Northwest Territories. These students baked and baked and raised enough money to symbolically adopt a tiger, a polar bear and a whale through WWF. |
| Ontario |
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Building a home fit for tiger
Students from Mrs. Piche’s class at St. David School in Sudbury, Ontario made a lasting visual impact on their schoolmates. They first covered the school with informative posters about Sumatran tigers. They wanted to raise awareness about WWF’s efforts to conserve tiger habitats. They featured an “empty” habitat bulletin board and slowly filled this board with photos of the five tigers they symbolically adopted through WWF. |
 Protect
endangered epecies
Mrs. Kingstone from Montcrest School in Toronto, Ontario, began teaching her senior kindergarten class about endangered species many years ago. Becoming an annual tradition, buttons are created out of endangered animal pictures drawn by the students and are then sold to raise money for WWF’s conservation efforts in the rainforest. |
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Roll up your sleeves to clean!
Three classes of students from grades 9-11 at Red Lake District High School in Red Lake, Ontario, weren’t afraid to get “dirty” for the environment. They marked Earth Day this year by cleaning up their town – they managed to collect a total of 129 bags of garbage! |
 What to
name a tiger? Petey? Rufus?
Tigers were the focus at St. Louis School in Keewatin, Ontario, this year. From storywriting to art, teachers engaged the approximately 160 students in the school in a variety of activities involving a tiger theme. Displays and bulletin boards were created and a “name our tiger” contest was organized for their tiger adopted through WWF. |
 Les
animaux en danger
After studying about endangered animals in Ms. Spence’s grade 5/6 core French class at Holy Name School in Pembroke, Ontario, the students jumped into action and organized a bake sale on March 11th and 12th. The event was received with great success and enough money was raised to symbolically adopt a wolf pup and a tiger from WWF. |
 Endangered help
For the third straight year, Mrs. Goodmurphy and her grade 7 students from Prince Charles Public School in Trenton, Ontario, have shone the spotlight on the plight of endangered animals. The class this year selected and researched various endangered wildlife and shared the information in the form of posters, and the Golden Crowned Sifaka won the decision as the class mascot. The students also organized a Teacher for a Day class raffle in order to raise funds for WWF. |
 Step right up,
step right up…
In partnership with the Student Council, the grade 5 students from Mrs. Lewis’ class at Glendale Public School in Brampton, Ontario, organized the second annual Environmental Fair on Earth Day this year. The gym was decorated with environmental messages made by students of all grades. At the fair, the kindergarten and grades 1 and 2 classes were treated to a range of fun and educational activities – from Bowl Away (bowling down such environmental destructions as pollution and deforestation) to Garbage Toss (blue box, grey box or garbage cans were available). A bake sale and a quarter raffle were also held to raise money for a total of 13 adoptions! |
 A whale of a
tale
A total of 110 Early Years students at Emily Carr Public School in London, Ontario worked very hard to help save whales and dolphins. These students aged 4-6 learned about what they could do to help protect the world’s oceans over a period of 5 weeks. The students completed special jobs at home to earn enough money to cover a cardboard cut-out of a whale. At the 5-week end, the children performed songs, stories and poems at a Beach Party for their families and friends. The guests also made donations to help protect 5 whales and dolphins, symbolically adopted through WWF. The group felt that the most important part of their event was the awareness raising for their families and friends. Great job! |
 Baby belugas in the
deep blue sea
Tao from Dearcroft Montessori School in Oakville, Ontario with the help of his friends Erin and Grace raised money for the Beluga whales at their annual school bazaar. They set up table posters, stickers and friendly advice and raised $91.90 in spare change. All of this in one night! Belugas are closer to swimming free thanks to you three! |
| Quebec |
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A “reel” whale of a time!
Lunchtime movies about whales and popcorn were the highlight for Knowlton Academy grade 3 students in Knowlton, Quebec. Their teachers Holly Bailey and Marie-Claude Lemieux made the event a fundraiser out of this great awareness raising and fun event. |
| Saskatchewan |
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Welcome to the Zoo Club!
Sutherland School’s Zoo Club in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan is comprised of an enthusiastic group of grades 4 and 5 students. In addition to learning about wildlife and their habitats, they are committed to recycling such items as juice boxes and pop cans from classrooms and their homes. Funds raised from the project are divided amongst a number of causes including animal adoptions from WWF and the local zoo, and donation to the local SPCA. |
 Buy a brownie,
help save endangered animals
Mrs. Harding’s and Mrs. Bowering’s grade 3 students from Cardinal Leger School in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, got very excited learning about endangered species. As part of their unit, they completed research projects and drew pictures! They also wanted to do their part in helping endangered animals by raising funds through a school bake sale. The event not only raised money but generated a great deal of enthusiasm and awareness in the school. |
