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Why leaders matter in advancing outdoor pedagogy in early learning, schools and communities

Shawn Wernig
February 27th, 2023
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The research is clear – children and adults benefit from experimenting, exploring, co-investigating and learning outdoors. But, to make this shift from an indoor space, leaders have a significant role in changing practice. Educators benefit from being surrounded by leaders who embrace and become partners in collectively imagining the possibilities of children experimenting, exploring, co-investigating […]

Taking Effective Breaks: Just Do it

Shawn Wernig
February 27th, 2023
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This session is for anyone interested in learning about taking effective breaks as a sustainable wellness practice. Our two separate projects show surprisingly similar results: high school students, teachers, and pre-service teachers perceive breaks as vital to their wellbeing. First we will share the science behind breaks, learn from participants’ voices, take a walking break, […]

Exploring Outside to Explore Inside: Social-Emotional Learning in Nature

Shawn Wernig
February 27th, 2023
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I believe that a successful and positive outdoor program starts exactly how we begin any indoor classroom practice – with routines, expectations, and supports. To nurture our own self-awareness and self-management skills, we will explore a variety of activities such as bird language skits, basic tracking skills, and scavenger hunts. After all, when we understand […]

Taking Curriculum Outdoors: the Nova Scotia Active Smarter Kids Approach to Learning

Shawn Wernig
February 27th, 2023
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Physically Active Learning Outdoors The NS Active Smarter Kids Project

“Come have fun! Physically active learning (PAL) is an innovative, Norwegian teaching method in which classroom teachers incorporate physical activity into the review of curriculum outcomes. Come and experience what public education is beginning to feel like across Nova Scotia/Mi’kma’ki! Through inclusive and collaborative physically active learning lessons, we will explore the benefits of taking […]

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

Shawn Wernig
February 27th, 2023
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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

Shawn Wernig
February 27th, 2023
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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

Shawn Wernig
February 27th, 2023
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“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 […]

Finding Peace Outdoors

Shawn Wernig
February 27th, 2023
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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

Shawn Wernig
February 27th, 2023
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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 […]

In Our Nature: Creative place-responsive practices for wellbeing

Shawn Wernig
February 27th, 2023
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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 […]

Category: Health and Wellbeing

Why leaders matter in advancing outdoor pedagogy in early learning, schools and communities

Taking Effective Breaks: Just Do it

Exploring Outside to Explore Inside: Social-Emotional Learning in Nature

Taking Curriculum Outdoors: the Nova Scotia Active Smarter Kids Approach to Learning

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

Playful Engagement in Nature for Well-Being

Camp Magic

Finding Peace Outdoors

Rooted in the Land: Relational Renewal and Reconciliation

In Our Nature: Creative place-responsive practices for wellbeing

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