60 results for group: 2023
Playing, Learning & Growing in School Gardens
In this workshop, expert school garden educators will share their tested and effective core routines for engaging learners across the curriculum in natural spaces. Suitable for teachers with established gardens, as well as teachers who are still dreaming of a garden! Participants will leave with an understanding of the school garden as a metaphor for learning, and an appreciation for the magic that emerges when we slow down, look closely, and learn alongside our students. Bring your school garden questions!
Are you a boy or a girl? Creating safe and affirming programs for transgender, gender-creative and nonbinary children and staff
We step out onto the land together and many of us feel like we belong. But do our gender-creative, transgender and nonbinary children and staff experience that feeling of safety and belonging too?
In this workshop, participants will gain knowledge of the intersecting identities transgender, gender-creative and nonbinary children and staff hold, and how this impacts their experience in outdoor programs. Together we’ll share structural changes, and strategies in play and story, for offering a safe and gender-affirming experience in learning on the land.
“Every season’s fun:” Exploring educators outdoor learning experiences to support increased access
This presentation focuses on a recent study that aims to capture OL experiences within public school boards in Canada. Drawing from our conversations with students and educators, we will discuss factors that can shape OL experiences for children, current practices that educators are engaging with, challenges that educators have encountered and suggestions regarding how to overcome these challenges. We will lead an immersive outdoor learning experience using WorldCafe a collaborative dialogue approach for knowledge sharing, reflecting and learning.
Exploring place relations with post-secondary learners
How can you promote meaningful connections to place with your adult learners in formal or non-formal settings? In this workshop, participants will discuss place- and land-based education principles. Elizabeth will present examples of in-class learning activities and assignments that she has used within post-secondary contexts, drawing from experiences teaching in Canada, her doctoral research, and a course she developed and taught at the University of Minnesota Duluth called Place-Based Education. Participants will also have the opportunity to share ideas.
Everyone Belongs in Nature: Ecojustice in Outdoor Education
Join CPAWS Southern Alberta Education to learn how you can provide inclusive nature connection opportunities that support wellbeing for everyone. This session will guide your role as an educator and caring community member in responding to inequality in outdoor education by providing tools and resources that make a difference. CPAWS will demonstrate how to take immersive environmental lessons, games and activities and apply cross-cultural guidelines to make nature’s inclusive invitation more accessible for all!
Addressing the intersection of biodiversity loss, climate change and environmental inequity through youth-led action projects
Educators will act as students, learning about the first 3 steps of the Roots & Shoots journey to come up with an action project that addresses biodiversity loss, climate change and/or environmental inequity.
Educators will split into groups to do a community mapping exercise to look for issues related to biodiversity loss, climate change and environmental inequity. When finished, they will brainstorm an action project that they could undertake to address the issues they saw during the mapping exercise. At the end educators will come together to share their learning.
Moving from ecological grief to active hope, a journey to and from the head to the heart
How do we move through our individual and collective experiences of ecological grief as we witness the planetary assault of the Anthropocene? Addressing ecological grief and equipping our clients and students with the tools and knowledge they need to mobilize their emotions from grief to active hope is becoming an important part of any environmental education curriculum. Join us for a discussion and activity that engages the learner's journey from the head to the heart to help us move closer to a life sustaining society.
Traditional Games – from acquisition of skills to cultural survival
This interactive workshop will not only showcase traditional games, but also look into the history and teachings of some of the 100+ games he knows of. Get ready for learning and laughing and be prepared for movement.
Exploring the antidotal opportunities for gratitude and eco-spirituality
In Braiding Sweetgrass, Robin Wall Kimmerer offers, “Scarcity and plenty are as much qualities of the mind and spirit as they are of the economy. Gratitude plants the seed for abundance. ... Gratitude is a powerful antidote... A deep awareness of the gifts of the earth and of each other is medicine."
This workshop explores the opportunities (and challenges) for gratitude and eco-spirituality as personal, pedagogical and environmentally revolutionary practices. Drawing on Macy and Brown’s Coming from Gratitude, we will situate our experiences within the wealth of earth-based gratitude and eco-spiritual research and explore possible next steps.
Integrating Land-Based Learning at the Secondary Level
Would you like to learn how to make land based learning a priority for secondary students? Do you wonder how to implement land based learning at a higher level? This workshop is designed to share best practices of creating, implementing and sustaining a land based program for secondary students . Participants will have opportunity to participate in land based activities while learning about the trials and tribulations of building and sustaining a secondary program that meets provincial requirements as well as the participant needs.
