Kids
Most Relevant
Articles
Kids
Animal Facts: Orca
The orca, or killer whale, is a highly recognizable species that is known for its iconic black and white colouring. …
- 319 words
- 2 minutes
Kids
Animal Facts: Kermode (spirit) bear
Commonly referred to as the 'spirit bear', the Kermode bear was named after Frank Kermode who was the former director of the Royal B.C. Museum, Victoria.
- 320 words
- 2 minutes
Kids
Animal Facts: Grizzly bear
Fast Facts …
- 303 words
- 2 minutes
Kids
Animal Facts: Atlantic cod
Spending a majority of their time on the seafloor, the Atlantic cod is a popular food fish that can be found contiguously along the east coast.
- 355 words
- 2 minutes
Kids
Animal Facts: Blue whale
As the largest animals ever known to have lived on earth, the blue whale is a magnificent species that can be found all over the world. …
- 396 words
- 2 minutes
Canada's Coolest School Trip
Kids
Parliament Hill and historical play-acting in the nation’s capital
Highlights from the last day of Canada's Coolest School Trip
- 921 words
- 4 minutes
Kids
Jones Falls to Beveridges: Exploring the Rideau Canal
Highlights from day three of Canada's Coolest School Trip
- 795 words
- 4 minutes
Kids
Kayaking on the St. Lawrence and camping in a 19th century fort
Highlights from the second day of Canada's Coolest School Trip
- 1009 words
- 5 minutes
Kids
Canada’s Coolest School Trip arrives on the shores of the St. Lawrence River
Highlights from the first day of Canada's Coolest School Trip
- 525 words
- 3 minutes
Kids
animal facts
Kids
Animal Facts: Red fox
As one of Canada's most well-loved animals, the red fox can be characterized by its beautiful colour and white-tipped fluffy tail. …
- 363 words
- 2 minutes
Kids
Animal Facts: Great blue heron
As the largest heron in North America, the great blue heron stands about one metre tall. …
- 367 words
- 2 minutes
Kids
Animal Facts: Pronghorn
As the fastest land animal in North America, the pronghorn is a highly migratory animal that has incredible vision and can be identified by the horns on its head. …
- 422 words
- 2 minutes
Kids
Animal Facts: Canada Lynx
As one of Canada's most elusive cats, the Canada lynx is known for its triangular black-tipped ears and fluffy coat. …
- 405 words
- 2 minutes
Kids
Animal Facts: Beaver
As one of Canada's most iconic animals, the beaver is the largest rodent in the country and the second-largest rodent in the world (after the capybara).
- 509 words
- 3 minutes
wildlife
Bulk Search Results
Kids
Stepping back in time to the 19th century with Canada’s Coolest School Trip
Highlights from day three of Canada’s Coolest School Trip
- 946 words
- 4 minutes
Kids
Animal Facts: Beluga whale
Beluga whales are one of the most recognizable species of whale thanks to their white colouring and thick bodies which are primarily made of blubber (40 to 50 per cent of their…
- 386 words
- 2 minutes
Kids
Animal Facts: Bald Eagle
The bald eagle is one of Canada's largest birds of prey and is well-known for its regal appearance and contrasting coloured feathers.
- 408 words
- 2 minutes
Kids
Animal Facts: Walrus
Often identified by their large tusks, walrus are large marine mammals that can weigh more than 2000 pounds. …
- 366 words
- 2 minutes
Kids
Animal Facts: Polar bear
As one of Canada's most recognizable animals, the polar bear is the largest bear in the world and the top predator in the Arctic.
- 411 words
- 2 minutes
Kids
Bison, teepees and black bears: Canada’s Coolest School Trip takes a deeper dive into Riding Mountain National Park
Highlights from day two of Canada’s Coolest School Trip
- 784 words
- 4 minutes
Kids
Animal Facts: Arctic hare
Highly adapted to living in the cold, the Arctic hare has shortened ears and limbs and almost a quarter of its body is made up of fat. …
- 410 words
- 2 minutes
Kids
Animal Facts: Arctic fox
As one of Canada's most beautiful mammals, the Arctic fox is well-known for its white fur which is why it's often referred to as the snow fox.
- 487 words
- 2 minutes
Kids
Canada’s Coolest School Trip kicks off in Riding Mountain National Park
Highlights from day one of Canada’s Coolest School Trip 2019
- 710 words
- 3 minutes
Kids
Google Earth Voyager story highlights Indigenous cultural heritage
Canadian Geographic Education offers a new multimedia educational resource centred on Indigenous content
- 230 words
- 1 minutes
Kids
Dive into the planet’s water resources with Jill Heinerth and Google Earth Voyager
Canadian Geographic celebrates the exploration and conservation work of RCGS Explorer-in-Residence Jill Heinerth in a new Google Earth Voyager story
- 331 words
- 2 minutes
Kids
Canada’s Coolest School Trip ends on a high note in Halifax
Highlights from a visit to the Halifax Citadel on Canada's Coolest School Trip
- 829 words
- 4 minutes
Kids
A day of campfire songs and nature trails on Canada’s Coolest School Trip
Highlights from Day 3 of Canada's Coolest School Trip
- 645 words
- 3 minutes
Kids
Canada’s Coolest School Trip travels through time in Nova Scotia
Highlights from the first two days of Canada's Coolest School Trip
- 658 words
- 3 minutes
Kids
Google launches new and improved Google Earth, with more ways to explore the world
Canadian Geographic Education tapped to host workshops to help teachers make the most of the new tool
- 526 words
- 3 minutes
Kids
Dechinta Rivers project to combine Indigenous land-based learning with canoeing adventure
The dean of the Dechinta Centre for Research and Learning discusses the school's upcoming summer-semester project taking place on three rivers in the Northwest Territories
- 471 words
- 2 minutes
Kids
New educational resources highlight Canada’s role in the First World War
Canadian Geographic Education and The Royal Canadian Geographical Society unveil new tools to help students explore the legacy of the Great War
- 475 words
- 2 minutes
Kids
Canada’s Coolest School Trip goes whitewater rafting
On the final day of Canada's Coolest School Trip, the students went whitewater rafting, rode the Jasper SkyTram and soaked in the Miette Hot Springs
- 703 words
- 3 minutes
Kids
Canada’s Coolest School Trip explores skywalks, glaciers
“You can do it Mrs. O’Brien, just look up and follow us.” Step by step the principal of Duke of Connaught school was led by Mrs. Ramsay’s Grade 7/8 class around Jasper…
- 599 words
- 3 minutes
Kids
Canadian students to participate in major Lake Winnipeg watershed research project
Last year Can Geo Education hosted a one-day BioBlitz in Riding Mountain National Park, Man., but the magnitude of this year’s project is much larger
- 352 words
- 2 minutes
Kids
Canada’s Coolest School Trip ventures into Maligne Canyon
The students are peering over the edge of Maligne Canyon, a sinuous 50 metre deep chute carved out of the limestone by the Malign River. The thunder of the water is echoing off…
- 672 words
- 3 minutes
Kids
Canada’s Coolest School Trip arrives in Jasper National Park
With a few quick rolls of a feather the pungent smoke rises from the shell and tumbles over the heads, hearts and feet of the stock-still students. The only sound is the rustle…
- 500 words
- 2 minutes
Kids
Video of the week: Alex Trebek gives career/life advice
The famous champion of geographical education dished some valuable career and life advice to a gymnasium full of students at the Roberta Bondar Public School in Ottawa, Ontario
- 182 words
- 1 minutes
Kids
Meet the finalists of the 2016 Canadian Geographic Challenge
From June 3 to 5, these 20 young geographers will vie for the title of National Champion in Ottawa
- 952 words
- 4 minutes
Kids
11 amazing facts about Canada’s bear species
Did you know polar bears aren’t actually white? Or that bears mark their territory by rubbing their backs on trees?
- 563 words
- 3 minutes
Kids
Energy IQ tour kicks off in British Columbia
The second Energy IQ tour will bring energy awareness to six schools in southern British Columbia
- 217 words
- 1 minutes
Kids
11 kid-friendly facts about Canada
11 facts about Canada and Canadians that are sure to entertain children of all ages
- 724 words
- 3 minutes
Kids
Canada’s Coolest School Trip says goodbye
The chance to sleep in a bed was a welcome one. Over the past week the Grade 8 class from Caledonia…
- 328 words
- 2 minutes
Kids
Exploring Vieux Québec with Canada’s Coolest School Trip
In the morning no one mentions ghosts wandering the halls of the old Levis Fort where we slept the night before, but it’s possible the Grade 8 class was too tired to notice.…
- 750 words
- 3 minutes
Kids
Finding remote waterfalls with Canada’s Coolest School Trip
Following along on Day 2 of the Canada's Coolest School Trip
- 417 words
- 2 minutes
Kids
Canada’s Coolest School Trip heads to Quebec
“A few of us arrived at the airport two hours early, we were so excited,” said Grace Fenton, a Grade 8 student from Caledonia Regional High School from Hillsborough,…
- 369 words
- 2 minutes
Kids
3 tiled maps to help students learn geography
Want to immerse your class in Canada's geography, but don't have the space for one of Canadian Geographic Education's giant maps? Our new tiled maps might be just the…
- 330 words
- 2 minutes
Kids
Alex Trebek presents winners of 20th Canadian Geographic Challenge
A grade 10 student from Calgary, Alberta has been crowned Canada’s newest geography champion.
- 353 words
- 2 minutes
Kids
Meet the 2015 Canadian Geographic Challenge participants
The Canadian Geographic Challenge, now in its 20th anniversary year, will bring 20 young…
- 1691 words
- 7 minutes
Kids
10 questions to test your geography knowledge
The Canadian Geographic Challenge is turning 20! To celebrate we’ve compiled a list of our favourite past quiz questions. Can you answer them correctly?
- 347 words
- 2 minutes
Kids
Canada’s Coolest School Trip winners head to B.C.
From visiting historical sites to watching orcas, it was an unforgettable experience for this Grade 8 class
- 538 words
- 3 minutes
Kids
10 top Canadian teachers meet to talk about energy literacy
While the kids are off enjoying summer, there was no rest for 10 of Canada's best teachers.In mid-July, these top educators attended the second annual Classroom Energy…
- 101 words
- 1 minutes
Kids
Looking back on Canada’s Coolest School Trip
And just like that, it was done. Canada's Coolest School Trip is over and the students are on their way…
- 331 words
- 2 minutes
Kids
Whale watching and fishing on Canada’s Coolest School Trip
Transients, residents, L-pods and J-pods. Those were the codes for the orca groups the École Antoine-Roy Grade 8 students saw on the second morning of Canada's Coolest School…
- 465 words
- 2 minutes
Kids
Canada’s Coolest School Trip winners enjoy invasive species battles, gunfire and West Coast delicacies
It was a day of battles, gunfire, food and fun as the Grade 8 students from École Antoine-Roy enjoyed their first full day in British Columbia on Canada's Coolest School…
- 502 words
- 3 minutes
Kids
Canada’s Coolest School Trip begins
The day began with dipping their fingers in the Atlantic Ocean. Before midnight, they were touching the Pacific.Two oceans in one day for a group of students from Gaspé,…
- 399 words
- 2 minutes
Kids
The Classroom Energy Diet Challenge is back!
Unplug your laptop, turn down the heat a degree or two and swap out those old electricity-sucking CFL light bulbs. It’s that time of year again — the Classroom Energy Diet…
- 219 words
- 1 minutes
Kids
Go on an Energy Diet
Sign up for this year’s Classroom Energy Diet Challenge
- 55 words
- 1 minutes
Kids
Giant floor maps on display for Geography Awareness Week
Walking across Canada has never been so easy. The Royal Canadian Geographical Society showcased its four giant floor maps of…
- 240 words
- 1 minutes
Kids
Education declaration
Just three months after gathering in support of geographic education in Canada, a community of educators has received affirmation for its vision and action plan, as delineated…
- 424 words
- 2 minutes
Kids
Boreal Forest map begins tour
Canadians now have a novel way of exploring the boreal forest — with a new Canadian Geographic Education giant floor…
- 223 words
- 1 minutes
Kids
Giant floor maps on display in celebration of Geography Awareness Week
Walking across Canada has never been so easy.The Royal Canadian Geographical Society held an event in Ottawa on Nov. 18…
- 323 words
- 2 minutes
Kids
Q&A: Alex Trebek, National Geographic World Championship host
Three of Canada's brightest young minds in geography walked away with silver medals at the National Geographic…
- 346 words
- 2 minutes
Kids
Team Canada wins silver at National Geographic World Championship
It came down to a nail-biting tiebreaker question, but Team Canada pulled through to win the…
- 454 words
- 2 minutes
Kids
Team Canada finds culture in St. Petersburg
As Canadians start their week after a (hopefully) restful weekend, Team Canada moves into day three of the…
- 334 words
- 2 minutes
Kids
Big map news
They’re as big as half a school gymnasium and weigh more than 45 kilograms, and this fall, they’ll be helping Canadian students learn about their country in engaging new…
- 215 words
- 1 minutes
Kids
The last day in Cape Breton
This spring, Parks Canada and Canadian Geographic collaborated to award a grade-eight class from Caronport, Sask.,
- 617 words
- 3 minutes
Kids
Class trip winners meet famous inventor’s great-grandson
This spring, Parks Canada and Canadian Geographic collaborated to award a grade-eight class from Caronport, Sask.,
- 664 words
- 3 minutes
Kids
Day one in Cape Breton for Canada’s Coolest School Trip
This spring, Parks Canada and Canadian Geographic collaborated to award a grade-eight class from Caronport, Sask.,
- 390 words
- 2 minutes
Kids
Canadian soldiers to be honoured in Sicily
On July 10, 1943, Allied forces arrived on the shores near Pachino, Sicily, to begin their invasion of Italy. The 1st Canadian Infantry Division and 1st Canadian Army Tank…
- 330 words
- 2 minutes
Kids
Meeting the Challenge!
The Classroom Energy Diet Challenge (CEDC) is saving kilowatts one school at a time, and the…
- 244 words
- 1 minutes
Kids
Lost on a map
Shortly after Judith Adler made a basic map quiz part of her second-year Sociology of the Family class at Memorial University of Newfoundland in St. John’s, she realized that…
- 485 words
- 2 minutes
Kids
Giant floor maps put students on the map
Canadian Geographic Education’s series of giant floor maps gives students a colossal dose of cartography and is a powerful teaching tool
- 1487 words
- 6 minutes
Kids
Geography education in Quebec: not all bad news
After reading this week’s articles about
- 369 words
- 2 minutes
Kids
The Great Canadian Geography Challenge
For the past 18 years, scores of students across Canada have tested their geographic knowledge through the Great Canadian…
- 58 words
- 1 minutes
Kids
Energy-wise
Classrooms across Canada are once again gearing up for the Classroom Energy Diet Challenge, presented by
- 199 words
- 1 minutes
Kids
Colossal cartography
Walking through Canada’s network of national parks, national historic sites and marine conservation areas would normally take many years, if not decades. But there will soon…
- 215 words
- 1 minutes
Kids
CFL in schools
What do the Halifax Storm, Fredericton Acadians, Québec Grenadians and Yellowknife Yetis all have in common? Apart from being fictional Canadian Football League (CFL) teams,…
- 436 words
- 2 minutes
Kids
Canadian Geographic Education
Think of it as a graduation of sorts — one that was nearly two decades in the making. After 19 years, the Canadian Council for Geographic…
- 127 words
- 1 minutes
Kids
Storytelling and sense of place
The Students on Ice Arctic expedition is over, we've made our sad farewells and are all returning to our daily routines. One thing I miss about being up North is our daily story…
- 603 words
- 3 minutes
Kids
The war on the floor
Students and teachers interact with a giant floor map at Strathcona Public School in Kingston, Ont.It may have ended nearly 200 years ago,…
- 181 words
- 1 minutes
Kids
With a little help from their friends
To paraphrase an old saying, behind every great geography superstar is a great teacher or parent. That is certainly the case with two of this year’s
- 365 words
- 2 minutes
Kids
March-ing on
After six years as the Atlantic representative of the Canadian Council for Geographic Education (CCGE), Peggy March has reached…
- 179 words
- 1 minutes
Kids
Class acts
From broadcasting key energy tips during the morning announcements to inventing a green product, nearly 12,000 students from across Canada learned about energy awareness during…
- 495 words
- 2 minutes
Kids
Energy idols
The Kitchen-Kuiack household of Marsh Lake, Y.T., displayed outstanding teamwork, ingenuity and dedication throughout the
- 149 words
- 1 minutes
Kids
Executive decisions
Back row, from left: Lynn Moorman, Connie Wyatt Anderson, Jane Kerr-Wilson, Peggy March, Geoff Buerger. Front row: Rob Langston, Emily Schell,…
- 144 words
- 1 minutes