What We Do
Classroom Workshops
Skye Consulting develops and facilitates K-12 and adult education classroom workshops on topics including sustainability education, air quality, financial literacy, career development and many others. We bring the ideas of our clients alive in the classroom, while connecting each topic with the grade-specific curriculum requirements.
Metro Vancouver
For Metro Vancouver, Skye Consulting created an engaging, curriculum-connected watershed program facilitated by a watershed educator who brings the watershed to the classroom. A mix of thinking and movement-based activities keeps students engaged in a fun and memorable way as we explore where our drinking water comes from, water use, sustainability, and what makes watershed ecosystems important.
Fraser Valley Regional District
Clean air contributes to healthy people, productive crops, thriving ecosystems, and clear views. Working closely with Fraser Valley Regional District, Skye Consulting developed and delivers air quality education programs for the region, focusing on how transportation and energy choices can affect the air we breathe. Skye offers classroom workshops throughout the school year.
City of Coquitlam
Skye Consulting, under the Green Bricks organization, developed and delivers a suite of programs to share Coquitlam’s municipal messaging around waste, energy, and water conservation to elementary classrooms. The energy program, for example, explores renewable and non-renewable energy in engaging and hands-on ways, helping students investigate how energy comes in a variety of forms. Students learn the links between energy, greenhouse gases, and climate change, and we have fun building mini solar scooters that move with the power of the sun.
City of Delta
Working with elementary schools in Delta, Skye Consulting developed and delivers engaging workshops on water conservation and waste management. Connected to the curriculum, the workshops help teachers and students learn about these important topics in our community.
District of North Vancouver
The District of North Vancouver encompasses extensive forests, streamside riparian habitats, and coastal areas that provide a spectacular setting and a strong connection to nature for District residents. Through engaging and hands-on activities, Skye Consulting developed and delivers a workshop that explores how we need to foster and protect biodiversity in our community. Students learn how biodiversity loss can affect living things and their ability to sense, respond to, and adapt to environmental stimuli.
City of New Westminster
Working with the City of New Westminster, Skye Consulting developed and delivered workshops for students in Grades 4-10 to explore the environmental impacts of transportation, energy, materials and waste, and water use in our buildings and lives. Through interactive activities, students investigate new innovations and technologies, encouraging critical thinking and inspiring youth to take action on sustainability issues.
Green Bricks
For 20 years, Skye Consulting was part of the Green Bricks Education team, which engaged youth in sustainable land use and development through science-based, curriculum-linked outreach programs. These programs were offered free of charge to various elementary and secondary classrooms across BC.
Cities of Abbotsford and Mission
For over 20 years, Skye Consulting, under the Green Bricks organization, worked with Abbotsford and Mission Water and Sewer Services to develop and deliver science of water workshops for elementary and secondary classrooms. Students explored local water sources, water conservation, and the water cycle. Access to clean drinking water affects us all and Skye engaged classrooms in understanding the importance of water in our lives and how we can manage water sustainably into the future.
City of Surrey
For the City of Surrey, Skye Consulting developed and delivered a suite of K-12 and adult English Language Learners (ELL) classroom workshops on topics including waste, energy, and water conservation in our community. These programs were highly interactive and curriculum-connected for each grade.
City of North Vancouver
Working with the City of North Vancouver, Skye Consulting created and delivered workshops in elementary classrooms on topics including energy conservation, waste management, and diversion, and encouraged youth to keep our streets beautiful. Teachers and students loved the hands-on activities.
Township of Langley
Skye Consulting developed interactive water conservation, solid waste, and recycling programs for the Township of Langley. Students explored where drinking water comes from, water quality and treatment, the importance of conservation, water-saving techniques, and how wastewater and storm drains impact local waterways and ecosystems. The waste program explored natural cycles, the life cycle of everyday products, circular economy concepts, waste reduction, composting, recycling, and how materials are transformed into new products, inspiring students to make more sustainable choices.
Curriculum Development
Skye Consulting develops curriculum-related resources geared towards K-12 learners across Canada and has worked on topics that include waste management, energy conservation, financial literacy and youth-health-related education.
BC Hydro
BC Hydro's Power Smart for Schools is an online hub of energy-focused activities and lessons for teachers looking for new ways to inspire their students. Skye Consulting has been a leading curriculum contributor to building the resources for this platform since 2018, working on topics around conservation, electrical safety, and various educational campaigns.
Vancouver Fraser Port Authority (VFPA)
In partnership with VFPA, Skye Consulting developed resources for students to explore how infrastructure improvements benefit many aspects of a community while safely exporting and importing goods. These online resources provide a framework for Grades K-3 and 4-7 students to learn how VFPA's sustainability framework, incorporating the three pillars of sustainability (healthy environment, thriving communities, and economic prosperity through trade), is shaping infrastructure in our region. The activities in these resources were designed to be interactive, with hands-on activities that engage students in critical thinking and creativity in group work.
Prince Rupert Port Authority
In partnership with PRPA, Skye Consulting developed learning resources aligned with the BC curriculum for delivery by PRPA staff in schools, at community engagements, and at PRPA's Port Interpretive Centre. The resources were designed to create lasting, meaningful impressions of port operations while fostering an engaging and interactive learning environment - key to the success of the program.
BC Lung Association
Skye Consulting worked with BC Lung Association to help create toolkits around vaping to assist teachers, counsellors, health care providers, and parents present important information and support about vaping and youth.
Regional District of Nanaimo (RDN)
The RDN's Drinking Water and Watershed Protection Program, Skye Consulting, Nanaimo and Area Land Trust, and Indigenous Learning Coordinators collaborated to create a regional resource focusing on drinking water and watershed protection for Grades K-3 and 4-7. The resource shares messages about what we can all do to protect our water through interactive and engaging activities including games, crafts, STEM experiments, and multimedia. The modules combine Indigenous stories and knowledge, local references, science, culture, and hands-on activities to reinforce learning.
UNICEF Canada
Skye Consulting worked with UNICEF Canada's Global Classroom team to create a resource called Climate Change, Children and Youth: Local Connections to Global Issues, to support secondary school educators in working with youth to take action on climate change. Through thought-provoking activities, students have the opportunity to nurture their compassion and discover how climate change is affecting children around the world.
Junior Achievement - ISP
For over 2 decades, Skye Consulting has collaborated with Junior Achievement to create an online stock market simulation and accompanying resources for secondary school classrooms across Canada. The Investment Strategies Program allows students to interact with business people, develop financial strategies, and use technology to build a real stock portfolio. Skye manages the simulation, trains volunteers, and creates the classroom materials.
Junior Achievement - ESIS
Skye Consulting worked with Junior Achievement of Canada's national middle school program committee to redevelop the most successful program offered by Junior Achievement across Canada. Reaching over 100,000 students a year, the then called Economics of Staying in School (ESIS) program is an inspirational program that helps students develop positive attitudes towards education and their future.
Place-Based Education
Skye Consulting takes a place-based approach to science education, allowing students to experience the area in which we live, work and play.
Metro Vancouver
Surrey Biofuel Facility
Working with Metro Vancouver's Watershed Education Team, Skye Consulting manages the Grade 4/5 field trips, allowing classrooms to discover the treasures of the Seymour and Coquitlam watersheds. Students learn that these are places where wildlife abounds, trees tower, and water moves through natural landscapes to our drinking water supply system.
Skye Consulting worked with the City of Surrey to develop the education science laboratory floor of the Surrey Biofuel Facility, a smart, sustainable solution for Surrey's organic waste. Skye also managed the engaging school programs offered at the facility from 2018-2020.