Course Features

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Duration

3 weeks

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Delivery Method

Online

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Available on

Limited Access

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Accessibility

Mobile, Desktop, Laptop

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Language

English

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Subtitles

English

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Level

Beginner

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Effort

2 hours per week

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Teaching Type

Self Paced

Course Description

The course will provide teachers with an understanding of how to incorporate outdoor education topics into their existing STEM curriculum. The focus of this course is to provide resources and skills for incorporating outdoor education into your curriculum for students to make the connection between their community and their learning. The course will feature engaging activities on a limited budget, so as to be accessible for every classroom. Each activity uses an inquiry lens to allow students to focus on aspects of their community that are important to them and to build student agency and ownership around these topics.

Course Overview

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International Faculty

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Post Course Interactions

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Instructor-Moderated Discussions

Skills You Will Gain

What You Will Learn

Learn the importance of outdoor education and the many skills it provides our students for the real-world

Understand how familiar outdoor spaces for the students can create rich learning environments where teachers can incorporate content and make what is learned in school more meaningful and relevant

Use outdoor education as a way to build connection with the environment and build a platform to then introduce sustainability topics

Become more comfortable and confident integrating outdoor education into other lessons and activities to create cross-curricular connections

Create inquiry-based learning activities based on Outdoor Ed and your own region

Gain resources and confidence to incorporate First People’s Principles into your science and outdoor education

Find relevant resources that can be incorporated into your curriculum

Build connections between outdoor education and other curriculum areas including Core Competencies, Science, Math, and ADST

Course Instructors

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Emily Macedo

Senior High School Facilitator – Geering Up & Outreach Program, Faculty of Applied Science at University of British Columbia

Emily is an educator currently working on the professional development team with Geering Up. She has 5 years of experience teaching grades 4-5 students in Ontario. Emily is bilingual and has taught a...
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