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While in-person learning and outdoor education were hampered by the pandemic at various times over the past school year, a new collection of digital resources focused on water was introduced to the board’s students in kindergarten to Grade 8.
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Both the Upper Thames Region Conservation Authority and the school board shared more details about the collaborative effort this week.
They called the project Water Is Life. Its material – various multimedia presentations that encourage students to reflect on the importance of water and the actions they can take to preserve the local watershed – includes and is heavily influenced by The Water Walker, a children’s book written and illustrated by Anishinaabe water protection activist Joanne Robertson.
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