Take Me Outside Day: A Celebration of Outdoor Learning
Take Me Outside Day is on Wednesday, October 23rd 2024, with a full week of fun and learning!
Sign up and get ready to head outside with over 500,000 other educators and learners!
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Take Me Outside Day helps to raise awareness about outdoor learning by encouraging educators to take their learners outside. This FREE virtual event is an entire week full of activities, speakers, and prizes to encourage folks to head beyond the four walls of a classroom! With the help of our 100+ outdoor learning partners, there is something for all ages, grades, and subjects under the three central themes of Indigenous Perspectives & Knowledge, Environmental Education & Climate Change, and Health & Wellbeing.
Keep scrolling to sign up and for more details regarding virtual field trips, speakers, resources, and prizes!
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Schedule
Register for free access to all of the amazing sessions and chances for prizes! Check out our interactive program for an overview of the week! For more details regarding specific sessions and speakers continue scrolling.
Monday, October 21st – theme: Indigenous Knowledge and Ways of Knowing
8:30am PT/ 11:30am ET – Author Read-Aloud with Sarah-Anne Tourond
Hosted in partnership with Strong Nations, join author of “You Are The Land”, Sarah Anne Tourond for an interactive read-aloud of her latest book!
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10am PT/ 1pm ET – Ancestral Technology Canoe STEM Challenge with Dawn Pratt of askenootow STEM
Join Dawn Pratt of askenootow STEM for this interactive and exciting STEM challenge featuring Canoes! In this challenge, learners will use what they know about and can investigate buoyancy, forces, and motion to design and build a small-scale engineering buoyant floatation system that will float self-balance, and hold the weight of rocks when they set trail on their waterway path. Just as Indigenous people had to develop solutions for water transportation for migration or trade, students will follow the engineering design process to design and build a buoyant self-balancing system out of cardboard, straws, balloons, and masking tape; floatation designs will be tested to hold weight while self-balancing and buoyant in a water environment.
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11 am PT/ 2pm ET – Author Read-Aloud with Emma Metallic and Artist Nathalie Laurin
Hosted in partnership with Strong Nations, join author Emma Metallic and artist Nathalie Laurin as they share their upcoming Cedar School Decodable Series
Resources
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About TMO Day
If you’d like to get an idea of what is involved with Take Me Outside Day, you can check out the full recap of 2022 here, (including all the recordings from our speakers), or our summary video from 2021 below! Our organizational Impact Reports are also available here. And feel free to reach out if you have any further questions: info@takemeoutside.ca.
Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion in Outdoor Learning
We are committed to creating a future for outdoor learning where diversity, equity, and inclusion are fundamental and foundational pieces that illuminate the beauty and strength of our learning communities. We recognize, as individuals and as a collective, that not every school-aged child in Canada has an equal opportunity to engage in outdoor learning at present. We also recognize that not all educators have equal opportunity or experience with taking learning outdoors, due to a wide variety of barriers. We envision a future where every school-aged child and every educator feels welcome learning outdoors.
Part of our commitment to this work in the realm of outdoor learning is to further support and educate our community on strategies to integrate diversity, equity, and inclusion into outdoor learning, and further into all educational practices.
We are developing a section of our website here where you will find tools and resources to assist you in making sure your outdoor learning can address issues of race, cultural backgrounds, sexual orientation, accessibility needs, and other marginalized identities.
