2025 Flood:ED Challenge Showcase

Building resilience and combating flooding through greening solutions.

Thank you to everyone who participated and we look forward to seeing the incredible projects students put together next year! 

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First Place Winner - $1,000

 Orchard Park Public School, Grades 5&6 
Burlington, Ontario

Grade 5/6 students from Orchard Park Public School created a STEAM based model to help prevent flooding in their school yard. To help guide their design, students first researched flooding and conducted hands-on experiments to explore water behaviour across different landscapes. They tested how the shape of water bodies and speed of water affected flow and accumulation. Students also experimented with permeable, semi-permeable, and impermeable surfaces to develop their final model, including features such as; added trees and plants to help with water absorption, and improved drainage systems.

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Second Place Winner - $500 

 Riverview Central School, Grade 7
Port Lambton, Ontario

Grade 7 students at Riverview Central School completed learning lessons, watched educational videos and then sprung into action. Using a combination of Google Maps and weather data, they calculated the volume of rainfall in an area of their choice on the school grounds. After that, they created three prototypes of the watershed their school is located on, showing how natural infrastructure such as planting trees and installing rock levies may be used to combat flooding from the Sydenham river.

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Flood:ED In Action

Celebrating the many different ways learners and educators from across Canada were engaged in building flood resilience through the Flood:ED Program. 

Learners Participated in a Workshop or Event

Educators Participated in a Professional Development Session

Excess Water Workshop

Throughout the year, we delivered several Excess Water: Flooding in Your Community workshops with learners across grades 3-12. These sessions explored the causes and impacts of flooding through games, discussions, and interactive learning. Participants played a true or false game, and an activity comparing permeable vs impermeable surfaces - exploring how different materials absorb or repel rainwater. 

The workshops addressed the environmental, social, and economic costs of flooding, sparking thoughtful conversations around community resilience and safety. To encourage action-oriented thinking, we introduced GreenLearning's virtual School Greening Simulator, allowing students to explore projects and initiatives to reduce the impact of flooding in their schools and communities. 
GreenLearning facilitated curriculum-connected classroom workshops that engaged and inspired students from across the world to think creatively about flooding and extreme weather with our Excess Water: Flooding in Your Community workshop. Check out the workshop recording here! 
"It helped us get ready for Earth Month" -Workshop Participant


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