Write Across Canada - An Environmental Writing Challenge

An invitation to engage students to express their knowledge, emotions, and opinions by writing on environmental themes, fostering their awareness of and encouraging personal connections to the natural environment. We provide incentives for students for sharing their ideas through writing about nature and environmental topics.

The SEEDS Foundation and Nexen want teachers to enter MONTHLY (October through May) this year and optionally submit poetry, short-essays, sentences on environmental themes, or other writing!. Pick themes from your grade-level curricula … animals, plants, waste, pollution, the seasons, insects, wilderness, lakes, birds, etc.

You can claim free sticker incentives monthly for every participating student, a class certificate of participation (optional) and a chance to win $50.00 in a random, bi-monthly draw throughout this school year.

Download the Adobe Acrobat PDF brochure and get started today! click here

To access resources that you can use to support your students' writing (for example the "Wildlife Found in Canada" map), please click here.     

AND if you are from Saskatchewan, Alberta, or B.C., you can also participate in "It's Write For Communities" and enter to win $2,010 to support an environmental literacy project in your school. Deadline April 30, 2010.
Click here to read more about "Its Write for Communiites".