Supplementary Curriculum Guides for Teachers

French Version of Historic Places of the Red River will be available in September 2010.

Historic Places of the Red River
Grades 4 to 6 Social Studies Supplementary Curriculum Guide
A Teacher’s Resource for Field Trips

Volume 1 (4.3 Mb pdf)
Volume 2 (4.7 Mb pdf)

Other Resources: (large files, please download before viewing)

Historic Places of the Red River: Primer (38 Mb PowerPoint)
Historic Places of the Red River: Field Trips Vol.1 (22.3 Mb PowerPoint)
Historic Places of the Red River: Field Trips Vol.2 (17.5 Mb PowerPoint)

Habitat Means Home 

Grade 4 Science Habitats & Communities Unit Supplementary Curriculum Guide
Plant Field Guide / Animal Field Guide

NOTE: Due to the large file sizes of some of the curriculum documents, the entire package is provided below in Zip format. To download this file, or any of the individual documents, right-click on the respective link and choose 'Save Target As...'

Entire Curriculum Guide in Zip format
Grade 4 Habitat Means Home Curriculum Guide (106 Mb)

Individual Files

Acrobat Documents:
Habitat Means Home Curriculum Guide (120 Mb)
Plant Field Guide (5 Mb)
Animal Field Guide (15 Mb)

PowerPoint Slideshows:
Habitat Means Home Curriculum Guide (8 Mb)
Plant Field Guide (14 Mb)
Animal Field Guide (16 Mb)


St Adolphe Students Work with Rivers West Project

Grade 3 and 4 students of Ecole St. Adolphe had a unique opportunity to assist in developing and piloting a resource for the Habitats and Communities section of the Science curriculum. Rivers West, a not-for-profit organization promoting tourism and conservation along the Red River, approached the school to assist in developing a Riverbottom Forest curriculum that would give teachers resources to study this back door habitat with ease. Students were excited and honoured to be asked to do the art work for this manual. The finished product boasts full and half page colour pictures of the students’ work.

For teachers, the finished product is a binder of lesson plans which includes a CD-rom with photographs of the flora and fauna most likely to be found by students on a field trip to the riverbottom forest, a field guide colouring book for students, and other teaching aids such as colour photos and game cards. This was an exciting project for all involved!

Riverbottom Forest Project
By Maddi Touchette

When I was in grade four we did a study of the riverbottom forest. We studied the animals, plants and riverbottom habitat. Ms Dangerfield came to our class and talked more about the above. We went on a fieldtrip to the riverbottom forest in St. Adolphe. We saw and identified many of the plants and trees we talked about. Sadly we only saw a few deer and we didn’t get to see all the animals we had studied. After the field trip we played a series of games about the riverbottom. We also did artwork that went into the guide for teachers so they can teach their students about the riverbottom forest too.


Red River Basin Water Systems - Grade 8
Grade 8 Science Supplementary Curriculum Guide for Teachers

Curriculum Guide:
Red River Basin Water Systems Curriculum Guide (12 Mb PDF document)