46 results for group: intermediate
Exploring Indigenous Ways of Knowing to Inspire Elementary Writing In/From Forest School
This workshop will lead participants through an interactive exploration into how using Indigenous ways of knowing and learning techniques in place-based outdoor education can be a springboard for exploring and creating written texts. A recipient of a McDowell Foundation Educational Research Grant, this session presents hands-on, evidence-based practices for educators that are based on: (1) Brayboy and Castagno’s recommendation that the “oral traditions and storytelling central to many tribal communities can and should serve as foundations for the written and text-based literacies required by and developed within schools” (p. 43); and (2) the ...
Take Science Outside! Using Outdoor Education skills to teach K-8 Science Outcomes
Are these outdoor education skills or is this science? It is both! Alberta Education Kindergarten to Grade 8 science is full of opportunities to connect science to outdoor skills–skills that students can use to also learn about personal and group safety, stewardship of the land, and leadership of self and others. Teaching science outcomes through traditional outdoor education skills has been a rewarding teaching and learning journey–one which we are excited to share! Join us for an exciting session of hands-on learning that has you ‘doing science’, the outdoor education way.
Un projet interdisciplinaire fait par et pour les élève
Pendant cet atelier, les participants apprendront à partir des intérêts de leurs élèves pour entreprendre un projet interdisciplinaire. La géo-enquête est un processus qui peut être adapté pour les élèves de la maternelle au secondaire et permet aux élèves de partir de leurs questions pour en apprendre plus et prendre un engagement envers leur classe, école ou communauté. Les participants apprendront à mener une géo-enquête avec leurs élèves et les appuyer à communiquer leurs apprentissages. Les participants sont demandés d’apporter un téléphone ou une tablette avec les applications gratuites Seek, eBird, Merlin Bird ID et ...
Forest for Change: Using School Yard Trees to Teach About Climate Change
Join Inside Education for an inspiring hands-on workshop that explores climate change topics including forest carbon sequestration, GHG emissions, and climate change. We will discover the important role forests play as carbon sinks through hands-on activities you can lead outdoors with your students, teaching them to connect curricular topics of climate change and the carbon cycle to the natural areas they are familiar with. Leave feeling inspired and empowered with tools, knowledge, and practical applications to promote environmental stewardship with your students.
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 ...
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.
