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5 Minute Field Trips

4/29/2017

Five Minute Field Trips - excellent games for your classroom!
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The activities in Five Minute Field Trips are grouped into three sections: Awareness, Understanding and Action. The Awareness section consists of outdoor activities that are sensory and experiential giving kids a chance to reconnect with the earth.

Next the students will be involved in the Understanding activities which are exploratory and inquiry-based. For example, they will investigate a tree and all of its parts, examine and record insects that live in a shrub; or locate and make a temporary habitat for insects living near a pond. Most of the activities take place outdoors and are structured by categories of time, materials, instructions, discussion and variations.

After completing the above mentioned activities students will be ready to engage in an action project. They will acquire citizenship skills guiding them to shaping a more ecologically sound, sustainable community.

Students will be evaluated through two activities at the end of the unit as well as ongoing evaluation in the activities. A list of resources is provided at the end of the unit. The resources are Alberta based, however the field trips could take place in any province.

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Resources for Outdoor Education

4/26/2017

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Outdoor Education

Outdoor education can be simply defined as experiential learning in, for, or about the outdoors. The term ‘outdoor education’, however, is used broadly to refer to a range of organized activities that take place in a variety of ways in predominantly outdoor environments. Common definitions of outdoor education are difficult to achieve because interpretations vary according to culture, philosophy, and local conditions.

Outdoor education is often referred to as synonymous with adventure education, adventure programming, and outdoor learning, outdoor school, adventure therapy, adventure recreation, adventure tourism, expeditionary learning, challenge education, experiential education, environmental education, forest schools and wilderness education. Consensus about the meaning of these terms is also difficult to achieve. However, outdoor education often uses or draws upon these related elements and/or informs these areas. The hallmark of outdoor education is its focus on the "outdoor" side of this education; whereas adventure education would focus on the adventure side and environmental education would focus on environmental. Wilderness education involves expeditions into wilderness "where man is but a visitor."

Definition taken from Wikipedia - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Outdoor_education.

   •   Resources
   •   Curriculum
   •   With links to Alberta Curriculum directly
   •   https://education.alberta.ca/media/3114964/eoed.pdf
   •   https://education.alberta.ca/career-and-technology-studies/nat-cluster-natural-resources
   •   http://theweaselhead.com/education/
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   •   Free stuff
   •   http://aep.alberta.ca/about-us/education-resources/default.aspx
   •   http://theweaselhead.com/education/
   •   http://cwf-fcf.org/en/explore-our-work/education/resources/?referrer=https://www.google.ca/
   •   http://swf.sk.ca/resources/for-teachers
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   •   Board Regulations Links
   •   Books
   •   Classroom Resources (Not Free)
   •   http://www.acornnaturalists.com
   •   http://www.crossconservation.org
   •   http://www.albertaparks.ca/fish-creek/information-facilities/special-facilities/fish-creek-environmental-learning-centre/

   •   Third-Party Sponsors/Providers
   •   http://www.waskasoopark.ca
   •   http://www.ellisbirdfarm.ca
   •   https://www.ymcacalgary.org/camps/camp-chief-hector/
   •   http://www.winsport.ca
   •   http://www.aquabaticscalgary.com
   •   https://yamnuska.com
   •   http://www.forestschoolcanada.ca
   •   http://www.albertaparks.ca/fish-creek/information-facilities/special-facilities/fish-creek-environmental-learning-centre/
   •   http://www.crossconservation.org
   •   http://fishcreekfriends.org/
   •   http://yamnuskawolfdogsanctuary.com/
   •   http://www.aiwc.ca/
   •   http://www.ceinst.org/
   •   http://www.northernlightswildlife.com/
   •   http://www.crossconservation.org
   •   http://aep.alberta.ca/recreation-public-use/bow-habitat-station/default.aspx
   •   http://www.albertatrappers.com/
   •   http://www.companyofadventurers.com
   •   http://www.undercurrents.ca/lessons.html
   •   http://www.coe.ca
   •   http://mywildalberta.com/
   •   http://www.ab-conservation.com/report-a-poacher/
   •   http://naturealberta.ca/
   •   http://www.natureconservancy.ca/en/
   •   http://www.campwarwa.org
   •   http://www.ywcaofedmonton.org/programs/yowochas-outdoor-education-centre
   •   http://goldeye.org
   •   https://www.edmonton.ca/attractions_events/john-janzen-nature-centre.aspx

   •   Field Trips/Pursuits (Regulations Disclaimer )
   •   Single Day; Multi-Day
   •   Rural; Urban

   •   Contacts
   •   Teachers
   •   Professionals
   •   Speakers
   •   Organizations
   •   http://cpaws.org
   •   http://www.pc.gc.ca/eng/index.aspx
   •   http://www.albertaparks.ca
   •   http://aep.alberta.ca
   •   http://www.outdoorcouncil.ca
   •   http://www.outwardbound.ca
   •   http://www.avalanche.ca
   •   http://www.pc.gc.ca/eng/index.aspx
   •   http://www.leavenotrace.ca/home
   •   http://www.albertaparks.ca/kananaskis-country/education/
   •   http://www.nols.ca
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   •   Links/Websites
   •   Smart Phone Apps
   •   https://itunes.apple.com/ca/app/alberta-wildfire/id626977403?mt=8
   •   https://itunes.apple.com/app/trees-pro-hd-nature-mobile/id452952313
   •   http://www.inaturalist.org/
   •   http://www.naturetracking.com/itrack-wildlife/
   •   https://itunes.apple.com/ca/app/ebird-by-cornell-lab-ornithology/id988799279?mt=8
   •   https://itunes.apple.com/ca/app/take-ten-to-greater-outdoors/id412088534?mt=8

   •   Certifications
   •   First Aid
   •   http://adventuremed.ca
   •   http://www.sja.ca/English/Pages/default.aspx
   •   https://yamnuska.com/wilderness-first-aid/
   •   https://www.ucalgary.ca/ActiveLiving/registration/Browse/All/Wilderness-First-Aid?filters=Outdoor-Centre
   •   http://www.puremountainmedic.com/calendar.html
   •   http://ravenrescue.com
   •   https://www.wildmed.com
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   •   Training Centres
   •   http://www.outdoorcouncil.ca
   •   https://www.wildmed.com
   •   http://ravenrescue.com
   •   http://www.nols.ca
   •   https://yamnuska.com/climbing-school/
   •   https://www.ucalgary.ca/ActiveLiving/registration/Browse

   •   Gear and Equipment
   •   Buying
   •   Renting
   •   Loan Pool
   •   Example - UofC Outdoor Centre
   •   Useful YouTube Videos
   •   Tutorials
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   •   Weather / Trail Reports / Avi / Conditions /
   •   http://www.environment.alberta.ca/forecasting/advisories/index.html
   •   http://wildfire.alberta.ca/
   •   http://www.pc.gc.ca/apps/tcond/index_e.asp
   •   http://www.albertaparks.ca/kananaskis-country/advisories-public-safety/trail-reports/
   •   http://www.avalanche.ca
   •   http://www.albertaparks.ca/kananaskis-country/park-research-management/permits/trail-group-size-limits.aspx
   •   http://511.alberta.ca
   •   https://www.theweathernetwork.com/ca
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   •   Southern AB Trail Maps
   •   Articles/News Feed
   •   Blog / Resource Sharing
   •   http://envirosschool.blogspot.ca/

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