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2 11 Canada s Provincial Trees Can you list the official tree for each Canadian Province and Territory? British Columbia Alberta Saskatchewan Manitoba Ontario Quebec New Foundland New Brunswick Nova Scotia Prince Edward Island Yukon Northwest Territories Nunavut share the British Columbia: Western Red Cedar, Alberta: Lodgepole Pine Saskatchewan: Paper Birch, Manitoba: White Spruce, Ontario: White Pine, Quebec: Yellow Birch, New Found Land: Black Spruce, New Brunswick: Balsam Fir, Nova Scotia: Red Spruce, Prince Edward Island: Red Oak, Yukon: Sub-Alpine Fir, Northwest Territories: Tamarack, Nunavut: No tree has been named healthy environment

3 Design your own provincial tree 12 If you had the chance to create your own provincial tree for Alberta, what would it look like? Draw your own provincial tree for Alberta. Did you know? Strathcona County Recreation, Parks and Culture planted 2007 trees in celebration of the 2007 Western Canada Summer Games to clean the air before the athletes got there! Our provincial tree Lodgepole Pine 13

4 13 writing starters You and your family are planning on going camping to BC this summer. Your teacher tells you before you leave there is a fire ban in the entire province so you will be unable to have a camp fire. Write a letter to your family explaining whey it s important to obey the fire ban. Write a speech that you would make to other students about the importance of our forests. Your friends tell you that they don t like to be active and play. Write a list with 10 points on why it s important to be active. Pretend you are a newspaper reporter. Write up an article about why it is important for us to protect the environment by recycling and conserving water. Write a letter to your friends and tell them how taking the bus can help protect our environment. share the healthy environment

5 14 Water is a very important and precious resource. Even though 70% of the earth is covered by water, only 3% is available for human use. It is important to save as much water as we can. The earth s water supply is constantly strained because of the growing number of people and drought. You can help make a difference! Think of how you can conserve water. Share your idea with your teacher, classmates, family, friends and neighbours. I save water by: Get more ideas for saving water at Splash and his family save water by watering their garden with a watering can. 15

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10 19 Enviromental Crossword share the Across 1. decomposing yard and food waste that can be returned to the earth as nutrients or soil 5. Reduce, reuse, What pie plates, tin foil and cans are made out of 9. Water and this are required to breakdown garbage 11. This is the only acceptable bag for grass clippings and leaves 13. Any with a twist off cap is accepted at the Strathcona County Recycling station. Down 2. Recycling saves energy, raw materials and reduces this 3. The disposal of garbage produces tons of this are processed a day 7. This is an international recycling symbol 8. This is where garbage goes once it leaves your house 10. Water that runs through the landfill that is harmful to the environment 12. Strathcona County has this many recycle stations 1. composting 2.pollution 3.greenhousegases 4.waste 5.recycle 6.aluminum 7.mobiusloops 8.landfill 9.oxygen 10.leachate 11.clear 12.five 13.plasticbottles healthy environment

11 Word Scramble 20 Unscramble the environmental words below 1. cmlieat 2. reeygn 3. erccyel 4. gblola mgrianw 5. oeyxng 6. nlsapt 7. ctnisgpoom 8. onrneitnvme 9. ereng 10. iar qytauil 11. crudee 12. eseru 8. environment, 9. green, 10. air quality, 11. reduce, 12. reuse 1. climate, 2. energy, 3. recycle, 4. global warming, 5. oxygen, 6. plants 7. composting, 21