The activities that I have provided have an environmental focus with math components. I have adapted the activities so students can hopefully read them and try them on thier own. Each of the activities can be easily adapted for the classroom in socials, science and math units.

Math components of each link:

Pine Cone Counting - this is directly linked to the Fibonacci numbers, it works well with units on sequence and patterns.

Garbage Pizza - If you choose to do this activity stress the idea of proportions and the creation of a pie graph (pizza).

Whale of a tale - This activity is excellent for units on transformation of shapes and can even be converted for usage with a coordinate system.

Ecological Footprint - There is not a lot of math in the filling out of the survey, but in the classroom calculations can be made based on individual footprints that deal with classroom footprints, school prints, community prints, country prints.

Natures Shapes - This activity is a fun way to look at nature and manipulate shapes.

Facts About B.C. - This section has the most potential for mathematical use. The numbers can be used in calculations in the classroom for meaningfull connections from math to the real world. For example if recreation areas have 1 785 000 visitors per year and each leaves x amount of waste, how many tons of waste is left each year.

Dilution Solution - This is linked directly to an Oceanlink page. It is a little more science than math, but the resourceful teacher can make the connections.

Note: The activites were selected based on the perspective of the B.C. Coastal environment but they can be used in almost any environment.

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