Students with 1-2 members may be paired up with another partial team. The combined team will have no more than 5 students. The group will compete as a single team.

Teams with 3-4 members can compete within their partial team or choose to be paired with another partial team to create a team of 5.

However, only teams consisting of 5 team members from the same school, non-traditional school, or youth organization will be eligible to represent Manitoba at the 2021 NCF-Envirothon, as per NCF-Envirothon Rules and Regulations. https://envirothon.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/NCFE_Rules_and_Regulations_Sept.17.2019-Revised.pdf

Our goal is to be inclusive of all learning situations. If a team of students is competing off-line, they will be provided with pre-recorded training sessions, a paper-pen field test, and the option to present the Orals competition though an audio source (telephone).

The Manitoba Envirothon is making many accommodations for our schools. These accommodations include but are not limited to:
● Inclusion options such as accommodating 1-4 team members from a school
● Accommodating off-line participation
● Ensuring hands-on learning as a priority
● Content is focused and reduced
● Specialized teacher training will be held to help our teachers navigate a virtual event

The middle years program is very similar to the regular Manitoba Envirothon. However, reduced content will be given to middle years students with an even greater focus on hands-on materials.

Middle years students will abide by the same registration options (number of students on a team, on or off-line participation).

The longer event is to accommodate completing the field test and orals competition. This year the test will be an open book test based on the regional resource materials for each discipline. Teams will have a week to complete both their written test and orals presentation

A school’s involvement will be:
● Participation in a welcome ceremony – April 7th, 2021
o Teams will be asked to submit an introductory video or photo presentation prior to

● Participation in discipline training – April 26th-30th, 2021
o Teams can either participate in live online training sessions or request pre-recorded sessions

● Participation in the field test and orals presentation – May 3rd-10th, 2021

● Participation in a virtual closing ceremony – May 28th, 2021

Our Steering Committee is working hard to develop winning categories based on the accommodations we are giving to teams this year. We will announce the prize categories as soon as possible.

**Only full teams of 5 students from the same school, non-traditional school or youth organization will be eligible to represent Manitoba at the 2021 NCF-Envirothon as per NCF-Envirothon Rules and Regulations.

Teams will study 5 topic areas: Aquatic Ecology, Forest and Plant Ecology, Soils and Geology, Wildlife Ecology and a current Theme.

Students will focus their studies on the Regional Resources and associated materials provided by the Manitoba Envirothon Steering Committee.  These resources can be found under Study Resources below.

These pages also include links to multimedia training and instructional videos, all the past Field Tests and Orals Challenges.

Each of the 4 core topic areas (Aquatic Ecology, Forest and Plant Ecology, Soils and Geology, and Wildlife Ecology) contain a resource entitled “Document”. There is also a list of each topics Envirothon Learning Outcomes. Read these outcomes and ensure that you understand and can complete each one because these Outcomes are testable. For Regionals concentrate on the study resources noted: * *

Outcomes for the theme are listed on the Theme Resources page.
All study materials can be found under Study Resources below.

The Manitoba Envirothon Rules and Procedure document can provide you with more details about the regional and provincial competitions.