Archives: Workshops

Environmental Games: Bring the fun of outdoor learning into your classroom

Michelle MacMillan   Rare Admin

Learn a variety of hands-on environmental games and activities that you can do outdoors with your class or group. Environmental Educators Michelle and Istafa will teach you several activities that you can use anywhere to engage students of all ages in outdoor learning in a fun and interactive way. The activities you will participate in […]

Playful Engagement in Nature for Well-Being

Pedagogy   Monique Goerzen

Promoting connection and wonder in the outdoor environment begins with rekindling that sense of wonder in ourselves. Come with the intention to treasure the moment of experiencing a sit spot, listen and connect to the personal journey of faculty who have moved their teaching outdoors, and reflect on the stories of students learning in the […]

Camp Magic

104 1710   Court Rustemeyer

“Taking kids outside can open the doors to a magical world of unexplained adventure, experiences and stories. When these moments happen as outdoor educators, we often refer to them as ‘Camp Magic’. Situations that leave students and teachers with a memory of a life-time and a story that will be told for many years to […]

Ripple effect: Working together to protect water

2020 05 31 10.09.22 1   Laura Gilbert

Water Rangers believes that everyone has the right to learn about and help protect water bodies! You will learn how your students can help scientists gather water quality data using the Water Rangers testkits. After an introduction to participatory science and water quality testing, you will test water quality! While testing, we’ll discuss how to […]

Looking to Nature for Climate Change Solutions

OLS JP MO Profile FINAL   Jacob Parliament

Climate change is one of the most complex, interconnected challenges of our time. But we can’t lose sight of the impact we can make if we take collective action and look to nature for inspiration. In this workshop we will take a nature-based, solutions-focused approach by looking at circular economy and renewable energy as ways […]

Privileging more-than-human voices in sustainability education: An argument for role-play pedagogy

Lee Smile

This workshop will give practitioners and participants the opportunity to experience role-play pedagogy, through engagement with the more-than-human in the environment. This pedagogical strategy involves the activation of evolved, imaginative, ecological engagement and thinking-with or being-with the ‘other.’ The objective of this pedagogical approach is the intentional development of relational awakeness and the building of […]

Project WET Climate, Water and Resilience Mini-Workshop

Maxine Koskie   Maxine Koskie

In Project WET Canada’s Climate, Water, and Resilience Mini-Workshop participants will experience three engaging climate change activities from the educator guide. Each activity includes background information for the teacher, climate connections, STEM and career connections, and a climate resilience activity. The activities enable students to understand climate and climate change through accessing and analyzing reliable […]

Indigenous Games

IMG 20220303 090313526   Shannon Chernick

Nature Saskatchewan and SaskOutdoors will share their experience of discovering their role in Truth and Reconciliation in their community through outdoor and place-based education programs. They will discuss cultural appropriation and the knowledge that was shared with them by Knowledge Keeper, Alphonse Obey from the Pasqua First Nation. Participants will learn about the cultural traditions […]

Kapabamayak Achaak Healing Forest- Live, Learn, Heal

627A82C9 6C00 4256 ABA6 A6961B74A31C   Rachelle Carlisle

Kapabamayak Achaak Healing Forest (KAHF) is a living memorial to Indigenous children lost to or affected by the residential school system as a gathering place for families and communities for learning outdoors. In this place, land-based learning, and intergenerational learning programs, connect people to their histories and cultivate sustainability. The presenters will provide a brief […]

Centering Indigenous Pedagogy with and for students in the helping professions

Thumbnail IMG 4682   Janice Linklater

SIIT staff and students from the Mental Health and Wellness Diploma program will share some of their experiences and perspectives on how to incorporate Indigenous pedagogy into education. Through a hands-on immersive experience, participants will be guided land-based skills and how to co create knowledge with students to achieve learning outcomes. The activity is a […]

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