14 results for author: Stephanie Korolyk

Summer resources for getting outside

Featured image above from Janelle D. in B.C. Summer is in full swing! We wanted to share a few resources from our outdoor learning partners to ensure you have the most enjoyable, safe, and fun season you can while spending time outside. Whether you're camping, at the beach, in the park or your backyard - or anywhere else you enjoy! - we hope you're soaking up the season and all it has to offer us. The Child & Nature Alliance of Canada has great resources for beating the heat - check out their interactive resource "Thrive Outside" for more! Click on each photo below to view it more clearly. Need to cool down while still having fun? ...

June 2023 Outdoor Learning Ideas

Image from Sussex Elementary School (@Sussex_Elem) on Twitter #TMO4LearningChallenge: Ideas for June! This is a portion of what we send to those participating in the #TMO4LearningChallenge each month! In this post, we’re passing on some of the ideas we share with our 4500+ Learning Challenge participants to support their commitment of weekly outdoor learning. For those who are not a part of this challenge, you can still have access to these outdoor learning ideas through our blog posts! We hope they also equip you with inspiration for your time outside. If you try one of these ideas we would love to hear how it went! Please email us (info@...

Earth Day 2023 with TMO 🌎 Nature Journaling

April 22nd: Earth Day 2023 📔✏️ We hope you're looking forward to celebrating Earth Day in your classroom, learning group, or family! This year, we wanted to focus on the practice of nature journaling, and give it a little sharable twist within our amazing community of outdoor educators and learners! Read on to learn more and a chance to win... The first official organized "Earth Day" began in 1970, and has grown immensely since its inception. There is no singular correct way to celebrate, and we hope you have the opportunity to head outside and spend time having fun and reflecting on our relationship to the planet ...

January 2023 Outdoor Learning Ideas

 #TMO4LearningChallenge: Activity Ideas for January! Feel like hibernating? Check out this latest blog post for fun activities and helpful resources to move you through winter. Stay warm, stay active - we're all in this together! This is a portion of what we send to those participating in the #TMO4LearningChallenge each month!In this post, we’re passing on some of the ideas we share with our 4500+ Learning Challenge participants each month to support their commitment of weekly outdoor learning. For those who are not a part of this challenge, you can still have access to these outdoor learning ideas through our blog posts! We hope they also ...

Showcasing our amazing Student Video Contest winners!

Thank you to everyone who entered the 2022 Student Video Contest! This year's entries really showcased the diversity of the country's people and landscapes, and we are thrilled to be able to share these works with our audience. There are so many ways to spend time outside, and these short films will certainly inspire you to go explore your own backyard! A huge congrats to students from Campus Regina Public in Regina, Saskatchewan for being the Grand Prize winners of the Take Me Outside Student Video Contest, in partnership with MEC and the Banff Mountain Film and Book Festival! Their film askiy kikiskinwahamakonaw The Land Teaches Us is phenome...

Learning Challenge inspiration from Mrs. Wardlow’s class!

One of our teacher participants from the 2021-22 Learning Challenge sent us a link to her blog, and we wanted to share it as registrations open for the upcoming fourth year of the Challenge! Have you signed up yet to join in? Mrs. Wardlow's kindergarten class uses the local green space in a nearby park for their weekly outdoor learning time. You can check out all their adventures and get some great activity ideas by checking out her blog where she documents all the fun! Near the end of the 2021-22 school year, she wrote about how her class got involved to advocate for the park they'd grown to care about. While playing there each week, the ...

Learning Challenge 2021-22 Impact Report

Launched during the 2019/20 school year, the Take Me Outside Learning Challenge has grown to encompass participation in almost every province and territory across the country. The goal is simple: encourage educators to implement outdoor learning with their students once per week from September to June. Ultimately the Learning Challenge works to extend the impact of Take Me Outside Day by offering tools & resources for building a community of educators committed to taking their classroom beyond four walls and relishing in the positive impacts of outdoor learning. Below are just some of the impacts of this year’s Learning Challenge. 6,991 ...

Finding family-friendly trails with Trail Collectiv

People often think that taking your kids hiking is a choice. You either go hiking, or you don’t. But that isn’t true. There are barriers to exploring new places and these barriers can make families feel like hiking is not something that their family “can do”. Significant barriers include not knowing enough about hiking, thinking that hiking is something that must be difficult, and not knowing enough about an area to spend the time discovering the new place. A new app and community created by two moms, Annika Mang and Jess Sproat, called TrailCollectiv is working to break down the barriers for families and redefine how they find trails ...

Welcome to the team, Tanya! TMO’s new Communications and Outreach Coordinator.

Cover photo by Chelsea Gray I am absolutely thrilled to join the TMO team! I started my career in outdoor education during my first summer job (scooping ice-cream), growing up in the rolling hills and rural roads of Ontario. While on break, I would go for walks with friends and family at the resort. Being an avid nature lover and growing up in a family that supported my love of the outdoors, I was often asked questions about the flora and fauna – the resort saw this and created a new position for me guiding nature walks for families. Fast forward five years and I became the Events and Entertainment Director for the management company that ...

That’s a wrap on the Take Me Outside for Learning Challenge 2021/22!

"It became part of our daily routine. Every single day we got outside for meaningful leaning opportunities. It became more than what we did. It was who we were. My kids craved it and loved it. It changed all of us" - Primary teacher, Alberta Another school year is finishing up, and we are once again bringing the Take Me Outside for Learning Challenge to a close. If this is your first time hearing about it: the TMO for Learning Challenge is a commitment to ongoing outdoor learning throughout the school year, which involves taking your learners outside at least once a week. It initially started as an extension of Take Me Outside Day, which occurs ...