From The Mountains To The Sea: A Journey in Environmental Citizenship

Table of Contents

• Introduction
• Setting out from Grand Mountain
• Cascading through forests and wilderness
• Animals, plants, birds, fish...
• The Eco River flows through time
• Groundwater – The hidden resource
• Wetlands – A peaceful pause
• Smalltown
• National Park – A protected area
• The trip to Bigtown
• Bigtown has changed
• The changing atmosphere at Bigtown
• Lowertown-By-The-Sea
• Activities for you to do!
• Environment puzzles
• Glossary
• Puzzle solutions

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A skit based on this booklet was prepared by the 25^th St. John's Rangers, St. John's, Newfoundland and was performed in February 2003 for the International Year of Freshwater.

The print version of this publication contains the following
Canadian Cataloguing in Publication Data

Main entry under title:

From the Mountains To The Sea:
A Journey in Environmental Citizenship

ISBN 0-662-18876-4
Cat. no. En37-97/2006E

Published by authority of
the Minister of the Environment

©Her Majesty the Queen in Right of Canada, 2006

Disponible en français sur demande

We would like to thank Margaret Caines, educational consultant, for her creative ideas and original treatment of the environmental themes contained in this booklet.

We gratefully acknowledge the following sources who generously gave their permission to use or adapt their materials:

Canadian Wildlife Federation, Habitat 20002 Kit.

Manitoba Hazardous Waste Management Corporation, Hazardous Waste Environmental Education Resource Kit, May 1989.

Ontario Waste Management Advisory Board, The Great Garbage Machine.

Southam News Publications, The Citizen, Teachers' Resource Guide, Our Fragile Future, 1989.

World Wildlife Fund Canada, Operation Lifeline Kit.