Christine Marshall
@mrsmarsocsb.bsky.social
OCSB Elementary - Science, Outdoor & Environmental Learning
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That’s (almost) a wrap on STEM Storytime for this school year! 📖
Join us for our final sessions on Tuesdays at 1 p.m., and learn all about birds nesting, bees buzzing, and our neighbour the Moon! 🪺🐝🌕
Save your spot now: bit.ly/4j2Iis5
Join us for our final sessions on Tuesdays at 1 p.m., and learn all about birds nesting, bees buzzing, and our neighbour the Moon! 🪺🐝🌕
Save your spot now: bit.ly/4j2Iis5
May 12, 2025 at 6:01 PM
That’s (almost) a wrap on STEM Storytime for this school year! 📖
Join us for our final sessions on Tuesdays at 1 p.m., and learn all about birds nesting, bees buzzing, and our neighbour the Moon! 🪺🐝🌕
Save your spot now: bit.ly/4j2Iis5
Join us for our final sessions on Tuesdays at 1 p.m., and learn all about birds nesting, bees buzzing, and our neighbour the Moon! 🪺🐝🌕
Save your spot now: bit.ly/4j2Iis5
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It doesn't end with No Mow May: Increasing native habitat helps pollinators thrive >> act.gp/3GMA6Og
#NowMowMay #PlantNativeFlowers #Rewild #Rewilding
#NowMowMay #PlantNativeFlowers #Rewild #Rewilding
May 12, 2025 at 9:35 PM
It doesn't end with No Mow May: Increasing native habitat helps pollinators thrive >> act.gp/3GMA6Og
#NowMowMay #PlantNativeFlowers #Rewild #Rewilding
#NowMowMay #PlantNativeFlowers #Rewild #Rewilding
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Looking for some funding to attend our OPC Breathe of Fresh Air Summit? We have grants available! 🏞️✨
To learn more and to apply, click here:
Travel grants: ⬇
www.outdoorplaycanada.ca/2025/03/28/n...
Registration micro grants: ⬇
docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
Deadline: May 30, 2025.
To learn more and to apply, click here:
Travel grants: ⬇
www.outdoorplaycanada.ca/2025/03/28/n...
Registration micro grants: ⬇
docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
Deadline: May 30, 2025.
Now Available: Breath of Fresh Air Summit 2025 Travel and Registration Grants! » Outdoor Play Canada
As part of our commitment to equitable access and national representation, Outdoor Play Canada is pleased to announce two grants to support attendance at the Breath of Fresh Air (BoFA) Summit 2025! Th...
www.outdoorplaycanada.ca
April 14, 2025 at 4:32 PM
Looking for some funding to attend our OPC Breathe of Fresh Air Summit? We have grants available! 🏞️✨
To learn more and to apply, click here:
Travel grants: ⬇
www.outdoorplaycanada.ca/2025/03/28/n...
Registration micro grants: ⬇
docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
Deadline: May 30, 2025.
To learn more and to apply, click here:
Travel grants: ⬇
www.outdoorplaycanada.ca/2025/03/28/n...
Registration micro grants: ⬇
docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
Deadline: May 30, 2025.
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Playing and exploring outdoors brings risk, and that's good for children phys.org/news/2025-04...
Playing and exploring outdoors brings risk, and that's good for children
We are currently in the midst of a youth mental health crisis. In 2023 in England, a fifth of children aged 8 to 16 had a probable mental disorder.
phys.org
April 14, 2025 at 10:26 PM
Playing and exploring outdoors brings risk, and that's good for children phys.org/news/2025-04...
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Chicken Jockey! Steve! Let’s Craft! If these phrases sound all too familiar to you, now’s the time to capitalize on your class’s obsession with the Minecraft movie take learning to the next level.
Download Tomatosphere Adventure for FREE today → bit.ly/42cy5Dl
#MinecraftEdu #LetsTalkScience
Download Tomatosphere Adventure for FREE today → bit.ly/42cy5Dl
#MinecraftEdu #LetsTalkScience
April 15, 2025 at 6:57 PM
Chicken Jockey! Steve! Let’s Craft! If these phrases sound all too familiar to you, now’s the time to capitalize on your class’s obsession with the Minecraft movie take learning to the next level.
Download Tomatosphere Adventure for FREE today → bit.ly/42cy5Dl
#MinecraftEdu #LetsTalkScience
Download Tomatosphere Adventure for FREE today → bit.ly/42cy5Dl
#MinecraftEdu #LetsTalkScience
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How do you build reflection into your lessons? This teacher uses a simple question to be sure this crucial step in the learning process is part of every class. 💪
#60SecondStrategies #EduSky
#60SecondStrategies #EduSky
April 11, 2025 at 9:51 PM
How do you build reflection into your lessons? This teacher uses a simple question to be sure this crucial step in the learning process is part of every class. 💪
#60SecondStrategies #EduSky
#60SecondStrategies #EduSky
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During Earth Week, check out the Climate Games Showcase—a chance to explore six engaging games designed to support climate education.
The events are free but registration is required: bit.ly/Climate-Game....
All sessions will be recorded.
The events are free but registration is required: bit.ly/Climate-Game....
All sessions will be recorded.
April 12, 2025 at 3:46 AM
During Earth Week, check out the Climate Games Showcase—a chance to explore six engaging games designed to support climate education.
The events are free but registration is required: bit.ly/Climate-Game....
All sessions will be recorded.
The events are free but registration is required: bit.ly/Climate-Game....
All sessions will be recorded.
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How Paris makes climate-ready school grounds
I get to visit a lot of schools with my job as a Climate Action Advisor, and so I get to see a lot of school playgrounds as well. It's a mixed bag. I've seen schools with exceptional play facilities and brilliant ideas, such as a mini-golf course, BMX…
I get to visit a lot of schools with my job as a Climate Action Advisor, and so I get to see a lot of school playgrounds as well. It's a mixed bag. I've seen schools with exceptional play facilities and brilliant ideas, such as a mini-golf course, BMX…
How Paris makes climate-ready school grounds
I get to visit a lot of schools with my job as a Climate Action Advisor, and so I get to see a lot of school playgrounds as well. It's a mixed bag. I've seen schools with exceptional play facilities and brilliant ideas, such as a mini-golf course, BMX track, a bouncy hopper arena, or a quiet writer's shed full of books, paper and pens.
earthbound.report
January 17, 2025 at 2:07 PM
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🌳Celebrate the start of spring by helping restore and care for an old growth forest in Ontario!🌳
Join us at Gillies Grove Nature Reserve in Arnprior on May 1st for a hands-on volunteer event focused on invasive species removal. For full event details: brnw.ch/21wRSS0
Join us at Gillies Grove Nature Reserve in Arnprior on May 1st for a hands-on volunteer event focused on invasive species removal. For full event details: brnw.ch/21wRSS0
April 9, 2025 at 1:20 PM
🌳Celebrate the start of spring by helping restore and care for an old growth forest in Ontario!🌳
Join us at Gillies Grove Nature Reserve in Arnprior on May 1st for a hands-on volunteer event focused on invasive species removal. For full event details: brnw.ch/21wRSS0
Join us at Gillies Grove Nature Reserve in Arnprior on May 1st for a hands-on volunteer event focused on invasive species removal. For full event details: brnw.ch/21wRSS0
Nice article from the Xerces Society: Want to Save the Bees? Focus on Habitat, Not Honey Bees 🌿🐝https://xerces.org/blog/want-to-save-bees-focus-on-habitat-not-honey-bees
Want to Save the Bees? Focus on Habitat, Not Honey Bees
Keeping honey bee hives will not help the 3,600 bee species native to North America. In fact, it might do the opposite. The best solution to bee declines is to address underlying causes like habitat l...
xerces.org
April 9, 2025 at 7:46 PM
April 5, 2025 at 3:50 PM
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Remember all those photos of excessive salting we shared?
And then the rains yesterday and last weekend?
Yep: all that salt is now entering our soil, groundwater, and streams.
Next Wed, Mar 26, Council considers a review of the City's salting practices.
www.ecologyottawa.ca/salting_revi...
And then the rains yesterday and last weekend?
Yep: all that salt is now entering our soil, groundwater, and streams.
Next Wed, Mar 26, Council considers a review of the City's salting practices.
www.ecologyottawa.ca/salting_revi...
Ask the City for a salt management review!
* Update: Council's Environment and Climate Change Committee approved Councillor King's motion unanimously! You can watch the proceedings here, and you can read (and watch!) our delegation. The motion is expected to come to Council on March 26.
www.ecologyottawa.ca
March 21, 2025 at 1:43 PM
Remember all those photos of excessive salting we shared?
And then the rains yesterday and last weekend?
Yep: all that salt is now entering our soil, groundwater, and streams.
Next Wed, Mar 26, Council considers a review of the City's salting practices.
www.ecologyottawa.ca/salting_revi...
And then the rains yesterday and last weekend?
Yep: all that salt is now entering our soil, groundwater, and streams.
Next Wed, Mar 26, Council considers a review of the City's salting practices.
www.ecologyottawa.ca/salting_revi...
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New season.
New trends.
Buy more.
Buy cheap.
Move on.
Throw away.
Overconsumption fuels waste, strains resources, and pollutes the air, land, and water around us. Think before you buy and help #BeatWastePollution: youtu.be/0v7f0KeNpv8?...
New trends.
Buy more.
Buy cheap.
Move on.
Throw away.
Overconsumption fuels waste, strains resources, and pollutes the air, land, and water around us. Think before you buy and help #BeatWastePollution: youtu.be/0v7f0KeNpv8?...
March 19, 2025 at 7:59 AM
New season.
New trends.
Buy more.
Buy cheap.
Move on.
Throw away.
Overconsumption fuels waste, strains resources, and pollutes the air, land, and water around us. Think before you buy and help #BeatWastePollution: youtu.be/0v7f0KeNpv8?...
New trends.
Buy more.
Buy cheap.
Move on.
Throw away.
Overconsumption fuels waste, strains resources, and pollutes the air, land, and water around us. Think before you buy and help #BeatWastePollution: youtu.be/0v7f0KeNpv8?...
Reposted by Christine Marshall
So many amazing things to check out during #ocsb Standing Against Racism week including our keynote from Indigenous cultural advisor Josh Lewis, which will be available as of March 17th. OCSB staff can check out all the other events and resources too on the site for the week on OCSB Central.
March 6, 2025 at 9:30 PM
So many amazing things to check out during #ocsb Standing Against Racism week including our keynote from Indigenous cultural advisor Josh Lewis, which will be available as of March 17th. OCSB staff can check out all the other events and resources too on the site for the week on OCSB Central.
🙌🏻 #ocsbSTEAM
M finished her Astro:Pi Mission Zero submission this week! She designed her mushroom and we converted it to python! Soon we will learn more about her code's run on the ISS! 🚀👩🚀 Learn more about AstroPi by checking out the STEAM WEEK events in the Educator Updates! #ocsbMath @mrsmarsocsb.bsky.social
February 16, 2025 at 12:23 AM
🙌🏻 #ocsbSTEAM
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We were pleased to speak with @ctvnewsottawa.bsky.social for their coverage of OC Transpo's salting practices.
“It needs to be reduced. There are good ways to reduce it. This is a manageable problem.”
#Ecology #Biodiversity #OttCity
www.ctvnews.ca/ottawa/artic...
“It needs to be reduced. There are good ways to reduce it. This is a manageable problem.”
#Ecology #Biodiversity #OttCity
www.ctvnews.ca/ottawa/artic...
How much sidewalk salt is too much at bus stops and transit stations in Ottawa?
It’s a high-sodium diet for some OC Transpo bus stops, and transit stations. Some residents of Ottawa have noticed large dumps of salt -- or think too much is being used.
www.ctvnews.ca
January 24, 2025 at 10:08 PM
We were pleased to speak with @ctvnewsottawa.bsky.social for their coverage of OC Transpo's salting practices.
“It needs to be reduced. There are good ways to reduce it. This is a manageable problem.”
#Ecology #Biodiversity #OttCity
www.ctvnews.ca/ottawa/artic...
“It needs to be reduced. There are good ways to reduce it. This is a manageable problem.”
#Ecology #Biodiversity #OttCity
www.ctvnews.ca/ottawa/artic...
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Forests are teeming with life, even in winter! While you're out on a snowy walk or heading to work, you might spot footprints left behind by unseen wildlife. 🐾 Each track is a clue, revealing the presence of animals thriving in the winter landscape. Read more: brnw.ch/21wQaXQ
January 22, 2025 at 4:59 PM
Forests are teeming with life, even in winter! While you're out on a snowy walk or heading to work, you might spot footprints left behind by unseen wildlife. 🐾 Each track is a clue, revealing the presence of animals thriving in the winter landscape. Read more: brnw.ch/21wQaXQ
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Bird Friendly Ottawa, of which we're a member, is offering tips on winter bird identification Sunday, Jan 19 by the Adàwe Crossing of the Rideau River, 12-3 pm.
Bring your binoculars—or borrow a pair from the Ottawa Outdoor Gear Library! Please join us. #OttBird
Bring your binoculars—or borrow a pair from the Ottawa Outdoor Gear Library! Please join us. #OttBird
January 17, 2025 at 2:20 PM
Bird Friendly Ottawa, of which we're a member, is offering tips on winter bird identification Sunday, Jan 19 by the Adàwe Crossing of the Rideau River, 12-3 pm.
Bring your binoculars—or borrow a pair from the Ottawa Outdoor Gear Library! Please join us. #OttBird
Bring your binoculars—or borrow a pair from the Ottawa Outdoor Gear Library! Please join us. #OttBird
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Beavers may simply look like fluffy, furry, oversized rodents, but they actually play a crucial role in enhancing ecosystem resilience to climate change. Their dam-building activities make them key contributors to the long-term survival of their habitats: wwf.to/3BYR2zg
January 14, 2025 at 3:53 PM
Beavers may simply look like fluffy, furry, oversized rodents, but they actually play a crucial role in enhancing ecosystem resilience to climate change. Their dam-building activities make them key contributors to the long-term survival of their habitats: wwf.to/3BYR2zg
Reposted by Christine Marshall
Study says myopia rates are soaring around the world - "parents urged to boosting outdoor time"
www.cbc.ca/news/health/...
www.cbc.ca/news/health/...
Did your kid get glasses post-pandemic? Study says myopia rates are soaring around the world | CBC News
New research shows the rate of myopia among children and teens worldwide has tripled over the past three decades, with a particularly steep increase noted since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic in 2...
www.cbc.ca
January 9, 2025 at 5:22 PM
Study says myopia rates are soaring around the world - "parents urged to boosting outdoor time"
www.cbc.ca/news/health/...
www.cbc.ca/news/health/...
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Filmmaker Len Morissette spoke with Can Geo’s Biinaagami on creating the first Indigenous docuseries on water protection, taking viewers into a confluence between worlds. Take a look at the full interview by Katie Doreen here:
“We are all connected by water. We live under the same sky.”
Filmmaker Len Morissette on the new underwater docuseries taking viewers into a confluence between worlds
canadiangeographic.ca
January 9, 2025 at 9:34 PM
Filmmaker Len Morissette spoke with Can Geo’s Biinaagami on creating the first Indigenous docuseries on water protection, taking viewers into a confluence between worlds. Take a look at the full interview by Katie Doreen here:
Reposted by Christine Marshall
🎵'Tis the season to take our brand-new Innovator Courses. 🎵
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Learn creative strategies and access ready-to-use resources in Quizizz for your subject of expertise. 🧑🎄
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Learn creative strategies and access ready-to-use resources in Quizizz for your subject of expertise. 🧑🎄
Learn more ➡️: t.co/Dd7bOOEKjR
December 24, 2024 at 4:44 PM
🎵'Tis the season to take our brand-new Innovator Courses. 🎵
🎵 Fa-la-la-la-la-la-la-la-la. 🎵
Learn creative strategies and access ready-to-use resources in Quizizz for your subject of expertise. 🧑🎄
Learn more ➡️: t.co/Dd7bOOEKjR
🎵 Fa-la-la-la-la-la-la-la-la. 🎵
Learn creative strategies and access ready-to-use resources in Quizizz for your subject of expertise. 🧑🎄
Learn more ➡️: t.co/Dd7bOOEKjR
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Canada’s waste volume increases by 25% over the holidays - a statistic that materializes right before your very eyes on the first garbage day post-holidays.
While corporations need to take the lion’s share of responsibility for overconsumption, there are a few things we can do 👇
act.gp/4gHNoII
While corporations need to take the lion’s share of responsibility for overconsumption, there are a few things we can do 👇
act.gp/4gHNoII
How to Reduce Holiday Waste: 50+ Eco-friendly Tips
The Holidays have become the most wasteful time of the year. Instead of a mounting pile of garbage and cheap things we don’t need, let’s celebrate the Holidays with our loved ones more intentionally. ...
act.gp
December 18, 2024 at 7:09 PM
Canada’s waste volume increases by 25% over the holidays - a statistic that materializes right before your very eyes on the first garbage day post-holidays.
While corporations need to take the lion’s share of responsibility for overconsumption, there are a few things we can do 👇
act.gp/4gHNoII
While corporations need to take the lion’s share of responsibility for overconsumption, there are a few things we can do 👇
act.gp/4gHNoII
Reposted by Christine Marshall
Missed this webinar in November?
Not to worry - we've got you covered. The webinar recording is available on our YouTube channel, here: 👇
youtu.be/BP0ILtQgBZE
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#Play #OutdoorPlay #OutdoorPlayCA #Canada #ECE #Framework #ProfessionalDevelopment #ProfessionalLearning
Not to worry - we've got you covered. The webinar recording is available on our YouTube channel, here: 👇
youtu.be/BP0ILtQgBZE
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#Play #OutdoorPlay #OutdoorPlayCA #Canada #ECE #Framework #ProfessionalDevelopment #ProfessionalLearning
Educators Teaching Educators: Canada's Outdoor ECE Continuous Professional Learning Framework
YouTube video by Outdoor Play Canada
youtu.be
December 16, 2024 at 7:41 PM
Missed this webinar in November?
Not to worry - we've got you covered. The webinar recording is available on our YouTube channel, here: 👇
youtu.be/BP0ILtQgBZE
___
#Play #OutdoorPlay #OutdoorPlayCA #Canada #ECE #Framework #ProfessionalDevelopment #ProfessionalLearning
Not to worry - we've got you covered. The webinar recording is available on our YouTube channel, here: 👇
youtu.be/BP0ILtQgBZE
___
#Play #OutdoorPlay #OutdoorPlayCA #Canada #ECE #Framework #ProfessionalDevelopment #ProfessionalLearning
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Morgantown native Emily Calandrelli, and host of Emily’s Wonder Lab and Emily’s Science Lab, the Space Gal becomes the 100th woman to rocket into space. - WV MetroNews wvmetronews.com/2024/11/22/m...
Morgantown native, the Space Gal becomes the 100th woman to rocket into space - WV MetroNews
VAN HORN, TX. — Morgantown native Emily Calandrelli, and host of Emily’s Wonder Lab and Emily’s Science Lab, became the 100th woman to blast off into space. Calandrelli made the flight on Blue Origin’...
wvmetronews.com
November 22, 2024 at 7:24 PM
Morgantown native Emily Calandrelli, and host of Emily’s Wonder Lab and Emily’s Science Lab, the Space Gal becomes the 100th woman to rocket into space. - WV MetroNews wvmetronews.com/2024/11/22/m...