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Foundations of Water Education: A Water Literacy Education Certification Workshop
Join our Foundations of Water Education Certification Workshop and receive your own copy of our Foundations of Water Education: A Water Literacy Education Guide. I will introduce participants to water literacy principles by taking them through a couple of activities directly from the Foundations of Water Education Guide with a focus on climate change, environmental justice, equity, diversity, and inclusion. Participants will be given the opportunity to participate in activity discussions related to embedding local knowledge and Indigenous Ways of Knowing. A ‘walk through the guide’ and an overview of supportive educational resources from Project ...
A Workshop on Sharing Stories of Tiny Miracles
The stories we tell matter. Indeed, they are all that matter. And the stories of the earth as “natural resources” in the service of a growth economy abound. This is a workshop that shares the potential pedagogical power of reclaiming and sharing stories about the earth’s interwoven tiny miracles. The earth is sacred, and the miracles are everywhere. These miracles are not, however, usually in our story frames. As such, with wisdom from Joanna Macy and Molly Brown’s The Work that Reconnects: Coming Back to Life (2014), this workshop will ask participants to be with and share stories of the earth's interconnected miracles. We will gather to ...
Engaging a Connection to Nature Through the Arts
Participants will experience various ways to infuse the arts into outdoor experiences, to find a unique way to use other senses and ways of knowing to connect to the land around them. Using music, dance, drama, art and language arts, participants will learn about ways to inspire students to feel a deeper relationship with natural spaces around their own school yards or nearby natural areas by creating arts experiences that help give the learner an empathetic vantage point through role playing and creating movement and sound experiences, and more.
Environmental Awareness Games that Work!
Under the banner of Environmental and Climate Change Education, we’ll go over 2-3 easy to set up games/activities that can be played or adapted to pretty much any age. These games can help students solidify their understanding of biodiversity, environmental awareness, and a general understanding of the interconnectedness of nature. These games and activities require little to no props, are easy and fun to play, quick and easy to explain. Get students moving and learning quickly and reinforce ideas about any concept. We will play "The Tree Game", "The Potlatch Economy", "Wiffle Ball Food Webs" and more!
Good-bye binary: Creating safe, affirming spaces in outdoor programs for trans and nonbinary children and youth
"We step into the forest or out onto the land and many of us feel like we belong. But do our gender-creative, transgender and nonbinary children and staff experience that feeling of belonging too?
In this workshop, participants will gain knowledge of the complex intersecting identities transgender, gender-creative and nonbinary children and staff hold, and how this impacts their experience in outdoor nature-based play and learning. Together, we'll discuss structural changes, inclusive and kind language, and how to navigate tricky questions and facilitate conversations with children. We'll re-imagine and share our strategies in play and story for ...
Placemaking as an approach to increased access to Outdoor Experiential Education
This workshop will explore the concept that "the outdoors" is a construct that has been designed, much like city spaces, by those who hold power. As a result Outdoor Experiential Education programs unwittingly continue to propagate systemic access barriers for equity-seeking groups. How can educators, organizations and program designers intentionally create spaces that are welcoming? This workshop explores the themes and origins of this exclusion and uses the tools of placemaking as a solution to design inviting spaces for all students. Workshops participants will be invited to actively engage in discussion and designing sample outdoor spaces.
Participatory research with children and educators to support the scaling of outdoor learning practice
In this workshop, we describe research that was designed to capture the experiences of educators and students who were learning outdoors during the pandemic to identify opportunities to implement successful practices more broadly. The study involved three stages: 1) interviews with educators and students, 2) collection of geographical data of school contexts and 3) an environmental scan focused on policy solutions. We will describe the overall study with a focus on the participatory approach and findings related to student and educator wellbeing. Interactive discussion will focus on findings from student experiences of outdoor learning and identific...
Traditional Games in the Classroom
This hands on interactive workshop will showcase several traditional games and how they align with current curricula and how they can be a valuable resource. Children of all ages love the games and the learning and teachings are broad and dynamic.
Kakyosin- Blackfoot Ways of Knowing
Immersive workshop delving into Kakyosin, the Blackfoot ways of knowing. In this workshop, we'll focus on three key aspects:
1. Issksiniip Coulee Walk: We will explore the traditional plants found in the area, explaining their uses, and sharing some of the traditional creation stories of the Siksikaitsitapi, the Blackfoot Confederacy.
2. Blackfoot Winter Count: Discover the captivating process behind creating our Blackfoot Winter Count, a historical record of our seasonal experiences.
3. Tipi Pole Harvesting: Learn about sustainable practices and cultural importance in harvesting tipi poles, emphasizing our environmental stewardship commitm...
Tetpawsuwakon – Living A Balanced Life
A personal journey of land-based education through the lens of Indigenous ways and knowing. Discussing, sharing and reliving our personal journeys and how it led to the importance of land based education, Indigenous perspectives, and being decolonized educators. The importance of story, song, language and how they all relate back to the land. As Indigenous people we are deeply rooted in these lands, so it is important to deepen that relationship with the land for ourselves and the next seven generations. Land-based education is grounded in culture and aims to strengthen educators and children’s relationship with the land and the land offers endless ...
