27 results for group: block-a
Empowerment through risk
In this workshop we will discuss an important first step towards supporting outdoor/risky play: our own state of emotional regulation. Looking at our unique perspectives on what we deem to be risky through the lens of our lived experience and beliefs, we can find ways we can expand our comfort zone and engage with the natural world in a safer way. Layering in what we know about our nervous system, our animal instincts and our need for time in nature we can explore how we can be an emotional safe space for children, our colleagues, parents and most importantly, ourselves. With interactive conversations, brainstorming sessions, sit spots and time for ...
Taking Math Outside
How do we incorporate nature in our math classrooms? The many benefits of outdoor math lessons for health and wellbeing will be showcased in these hands on outdoor math activities for elementary students.
Whose Voice Is This?: Creating Accessible and Inclusive Outdoor Spaces through Storytelling
Nature is for everybody. This outdoor learning experience discusses inclusion and accessibility in outdoor spaces through an equity, anti-racism, and anti-oppression framework. Stories are powerful and those that are grounded by truth connect us all. As National Geographic and Lindblad expedition - Grosvenor Teacher Fellows, we have a deep understanding that everybody’s relation to the land looks, feels and sounds different through storytelling. Come and learn practical ways you can use storytelling to create inclusive and accessible outdoor learning spaces where students’ voices are heard, seen, and felt.
Perimeter Walks: Two laps around your schoolyard is just the beginning
Looking to take your class outside every day? Want to connect it to math, science, literacy, art, technology, and health? Interested in making you and your students happier and more compassionate to each other and the environment? Just a couple of laps around your schoolyard and you can have it all and so much more. We’ll go on a walk and turn it into a powerful writing opportunity, use technology in an authentic way, and have a ton of fun playing a bit of a math game. BYOD ('Bring Your Own Device - phone, tablet, etc) for the complete experience.
Puppets Sing! Connecting with the Land through Puppets, Stories and Songs
This workshop introduces early childhood and primary educators to fun and engaging ways to connect young learners to the Land using puppetry, stories, and songs. Our purpose is to inspire you to feel comfortable using puppets and songs in your outdoor learning, science, and nature play. This interactive and hands-on workshop will have you singing, playing, and laughing with us. We will share some of our favourite songs, stories, and games while modeling the many ways to bring puppets to life for your young learners. You will receive a link to our living documents which include a song list, puppet play resource, and printable Columbia Basin-inspired ...
Awe, Wellness, and Nature: Nurturing Connections for Healthier Outdoor Learning
Join us as we delve into the transformative power of awe in nature. Through immersive experiences and insightful discussions, we'll explore how cultivating a sense of awe can profoundly impact wellness and enrich outdoor education. Discover the science behind awe, its link to wellness, and how awe-inspiring moments in nature can enhance learning. Uncover strategies to integrate awe into outdoor educational practices, fostering a deep connection to nature and promoting overall well-being. Let's embrace the awe of nature and unlock the potential for healthier, more enriching outdoor learning experiences.
Finding Peace Outdoors
This course will explore the philosophies and educational integration techniques behind nature journaling while giving hands on practical ways to implement this strategy in the classroom. We will spend some time working the research behind this and will move into taking our own time to sit in nature and practice different methods of artistic expression.
Rooted in the Land: Relational Renewal and Reconciliation
In this outdoor workshop, participants will be invited to grow their understanding of how each of us and all living beings exist and act within webs of relationships and that relational understandings needed for reconciliation among humans and between humans and the more-than-human.
Through outdoor activities and invitations for creative writing and drawing, we will explore how we might re-new, re-story and deepen our understandings of self, of relationship and of relational responsibility.
In Our Nature: Creative place-responsive practices for wellbeing
We are intricately connected; tending to personal wellbeing thus tends to all our relations. This workshop is an invitation for educators of all backgrounds to improve their wellbeing by responding to the human and more-than-human worlds informing their identity and practice. From gratitude to poetry, group discussion and getting creative, participants will collaborate on an art installation to represent our interconnected and interdependent identities on a hanging art mobile. By remembering our mutual belonging that has always been ‘in our nature’, we improve wellbeing for all.
Taking learning out into the schoolyard: Cultivating connections in challenging times
As outdoor learning enthusiasts, we’re familiar with the benefits of spending time outdoors. Is simply being outside enough, though, to offer students a meaningful connection to nature? One that can support them in challenging times? In this workshop, we will engage in a series of activities that foreground mindfulness, gratitude, honouring difficulties, and finding hope through a sense connection with all of life. These activities can be replicated in any schoolyard, helping us respond to the natural world’s invitation to be present, to find resilience, and ultimately, to know that we belong.
