Educational Materials
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Bird Studies Canada - Species At Risk Info Sheet for Landowners
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Chimney swifts are Species At Risk in Ontario and the Canadian Maritimes Region. They are an urban bird species that actually rely on our old chimneys that are still open for their nesting habitat. If you've never been lucky enough to see a whole flock of them head back to their roost in the spring and summer all in a span of a few seconds in a swirling "swiftnado", you should check out the awesome events held by SwiftWatch representatives from Bird Studies Canada and its partners! I was hired by BSC to create a one-pager that could be handed out to landowners who have seen or encountered swifts on their property, to provide a brief overview of their basic biology, and why it's good to provide space for these At-Risk birds. I created the illustrations and icons for the page and developed the layout according to plans and text provided by BSC. I created multiple versions, an Ontario page and a Maritimes page in both English and French, but with different partnership logos. |
Royal Ontario Museum - ROM For the Holidays Nordic Forest Scavenger Hunt
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ROM For the Holidays is an annual affair at the Royal Ontario Museum that involves the whole institution in activities and programs for two weeks after Christmas that give families experiences that relate to an overarching theme in the museum. in the 2017/2018 season, the theme was Vikings to relate to the ongoing blockbuster exhibition. I helped the ROM Biodiversity team by providing the design work for their "Animal Sagas" Nordic Forest Scavenger Hunt in the Earth Rangers Studio. I designed illustrations relating to each animal, and carved a pair of stamps with a Norse Raven that was used to reward completed scavenger hunt participants with "Odin's stamp of approval".
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Rouge National Urban Park - BioBlitz Canada 150 Species Collector Cards
For the Base Camp Festival component of the BioBlitz Canada 150 Rouge National Urban Park Flagship Event, our team wanted to develop a scavenger hunt or a takeaway activity that would encourage visitors to spend time at each booth of our "Activity Alley", where partner organizations would be set up to talk about their work and programs. I had dreamed of making collector cards similar to those developed by the Encyclopedia of Life for different groups of biodiversity. However, our cards needed to be bilingual because of the national scope of our event, so we could not use the EOL card generator. That's where I came in - I designed a set of 20 different species cards spanning as many taxa as I could to highlight common or iconic species that are found in Rouge National Urban Park. One card would be handed out at each booth, and visitors would be encouraged to collect them all to get the whole set. Cards provided a fun fact about each species, as well as basic information on their biology such as their habitat type and diet.
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Royal Ontario Museum | Curator's Corner Blue Whale Activity Colouring Sheets
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Royal Ontario Museum - Animal Explorers - Canada's Oceans
The Life in Crisis: Schad Gallery of Biodiversity at the ROM began its Animal Explorers program in the summer of 2012, and it has quickly become a favourite activity amongst the museum's younger visitors. They carry their Explorer with them on their visit to the museum, and must find all the exhibits related to that animal within its Explorer Booklet.
Here is the booklet I designed for a limited-time guest explorer, Sooke the Orca Whale, who was introduced to coincide with the Canada's Oceans and You National Ocean Symposium held in November 2012 at the ROM.
Here is the booklet I designed for a limited-time guest explorer, Sooke the Orca Whale, who was introduced to coincide with the Canada's Oceans and You National Ocean Symposium held in November 2012 at the ROM.
Cooking Toronto - Recipe Activity Sheets
Cooking Toronto was a catering and cooking education business run by Chef Michelle Curnock. I developed a series of recipe activity sheets for recipes that she used in her Kids Programs at schools, cooking studios and day cares in the Greater Toronto Area.
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