BOOK A WILD VOICES FOR KIDS PROGRAM!
Due to recent CBEEN program funding changes, we will now offer price options for Wild Voices for Kids programs.
Please select the price option that suits your needs, knowing that some schools don’t have access to the financial resources that others do.
We ask that teachers ensure that a program does not violate their school and/or district policies before booking. It is the responsibility of the teacher to confirm program suitability and communicate needs and questions to the Community Educator that is delivering the program.
Do you have any question about the Wild Voices Program? Please connect with Mia at wildvoices@cbeen.org
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Schoolyard Explorations
Bookable Type(s) | Outdoors (approx 1 hr) |
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Duration | 1.5 Hours |
Location | schoolyard |
Contact This Presenter | soomac@shaw.ca |
About the Program
The school yard is a great place to begin exploring the tools and techniques used in inquiry learning. Students will have the opportunity to see their school yard as a microcosm of the world with varieties of life, both plant and animal, and the amazing interactions between all life, including us!
This program is about stimulating students to take a closer look at the immediate world around them to see relationships and also giving teachers the tools, including assessment tools, that make outdoor inquiry fun for all. Techniques for managing "recess syndrome" and stimulating students to see all of the world, including their school yard, as an opportunity to ask questions and build their relationships with the natural world.
Curriculum Connections include:
-Skills can be developed through play
-Through listening and speaking, we connect with others and share our world
-Curiosity and wonder lead us to new discoveries about ourselves and the world around us
-Plants and animals have observable features
-Living things have features and behaviours that help them survive in the environment
-Daily and seasonal changes affect all living things
-Living things have life cycles adapted to their environment
-Observable patterns and cycles occur in the local sky and landscape
About the Community Educator
Susie has been involved in Environmental Education for 20 years in a variety of roles: as a Wild BC facilitator, an in-class and field trip presenter, as well as the Wild Voices for Kids Program Manager. As a volunteer, she has worked with Girl Guides and Young Naturalists Club.
This program can be booked as a half day program with the "Trees and Me" program in Fall and Spring.
Tags: | Outdoor Skills, Ecosystems / Wildlife |
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Seasons: | Autumn, Spring |
Grade Levels: | Primary (K-3) |
School Districts: | Independent, SD6, SD5 |
Program Price Options:
Due to recent CBEEN program funding changes, CBEEN will now offer price options for Wild Voices for Kids programs. Please select the price option that suits your needs, knowing that some schools don’t have access to the financial resources that others do. The following price options are available:
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Non-subsidized: Please select this option if you can access funds to pay the full price for this program. By selecting this option, this will allow us to offer more subsidized programs to those schools who don’t have the same support as you might. An unlimited number of programs are available at this payment level.
- In class/school yard ~1-1.5 hours = $250
- Half-day field study = $390
- Full-day field study = $595
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Slightly Subsidized: Please select this option if you need a bit of support in paying for your program. CBEEN has secured some grant funding to support this option. An unlimited number of programs are available at this payment level.
- In class/school yard ~1-1.5 hrs = $150
- Half-day field study = $250
- Full-day field study = $350
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Heavily Subsidized: Please select this option if you need a lot of support in helping to make programs happen in your school. CBEEN has secured funding to allow a limited number of classes to access two heavily subsidized programs/class/year.
- In class/school yard ~1-1.5 hrs = $75
- Half-day field study = $125
- Full-day field study = $175
- Fully Subsidized: Please select this option if you have no means of accessing funding for a program. CBEEN has secured funding to allow a limited number of classes to access one totally subsidized program/class/year.