Welcome to the Watersheds Canada Resource Library!
Here you will find a comprehensive collection of free educational resources dedicated to helping rural shoreline property owners, families, municipalities, lake groups, and educators protect their lakes and restore natural habitat. Explore guides, best practices, case studies, lesson plans, and tools to become a freshwater protector. All resources are freely shareable so please include them in a newsletter, on social media, or printed for a community booth!
Funding support thanks to Peterborough K.M. Hunter Charitable Foundation, and S.M. Blair Family Foundation.
Sustaining our Freshwater - A special World Water Day presentation
Protecting your community’s freshwater and shoreland areas is very important but it can be hard to know where to start. You may have trouble understanding technical documents, or figuring out the “best” first step when you have limited resources. The good news is you don’t have to figure this out alone. Join Watersheds Canada's staff for this interactive session as we share some of our free freshwater stewardship resources and how they can help you take action.
Talk to the Birds
This document provides guidelines for staying safe while exploring the outdoors. It emphasizes the importance of physical distancing, hygiene practices, and bringing necessary items such as masks, snacks, and sunscreen. Additionally, it offers tips for observing wildlife from a safe distance and learning about bird identification. The document is created by Watersheds Canada and Junction Creek Stewardship Committee with funding from TD Friends of the Environment Foundation.
Teacher Information Sheet – Fish Habitat Lesson PDF
This reference documents helps teachers understand the basic needs of different fish species and their habitat needs. This document is helpful for teachers who want to deliver fish-centred programming in their classroom and want to increase their comfort level before delivering lessons. This document covers various fish species, including walleye, largemouth bass, sunfish, yellow perch, and brook trout. By understanding the unique habitats of these fish, teachers can appreciate the importance of preserving the natural environment and instil this knowledge in their students.
Ten Days of Winter Fun! (2022)
Our annual '10 Days of Winter' campaign provides you with fun activities, crafts, and resources to help you get outside and connect with nature throughout the winter months. This is the 2022 edition that includes building a winter shelter, doing winter sports, finding animal tracks, and more!
Ten Days of Winter Fun! (2023)
Our annual '10 Days of Winter' campaign provides you with fun activities, crafts, and resources to help you get outside and connect with nature throughout the winter months. This is the 2023 edition that includes maple taffy, nature journaling, building a weather station, and more!
Ten Days of Winter Fun! (2024)
Our annual '10 Days of Winter' campaign provides you with fun activities, crafts, and resources to help you get outside and connect with nature throughout the winter months. This is the 2024 edition that includes stargazing, making a Christmas simmer pot, doing a pinecone experiment, and more!
Ten Days of Winter Fun! (2025)
Our annual '10 Days of Winter' campaign provides you with fun activities, crafts, and resources to help you get outside and connect with nature throughout the winter months. This is the 2025 edition that includes snow painting, bird ID, making conifer tea, and more!
Ten successful years for Love Your Lake
This blog post was written in celebration of the 10 year anniversary of our shoreline assessment program, Love Your Lake. It highlights the impact of the program so far, and tells of the most important shoreline features assessors look for: having a natural shoreline full of trees, shrubs, and wildflowers. Naturalized shorelines provide so many benefits to us and to our wildlife - read this blog post to learn more!
Thank you for a great year!
This blog post was written as a thank you to all the staff, board, volunteers, and financial supporters that supported our work in 2016.