Welcome to Environmental & Outdoor Learning
EOL
Mission: To instill caring, growth, and collaboration, through an interdisciplinary Environmental and Outdoor Education Program, that promotes long-lasting connections with the environment and educational community.
“Only if we understand, will we care. Only if we care, will we help.
Only if we help, shall all be saved.” –Jane Goodall
Please let me know if you have any resources you feel would be good to add to the site, it is a work in progress.
SD71 Environmental Stewardship- Report 2022
Outdoor Learning
The outdoors is an extension of your classroom, it is a place to take what your are doing indoors outdoors. The space offers the opportunity to enhance learning and foster emergent learning.
Environmental Outdoor Learning can look like…..
Primary Grades
- outdoor play
- outdoor exploration
- caring for animals
- growing gardens
- recycling
- composting
- litter-less lunches
- stories about powerful places
- First Nations stories of place
- Intro. to environmental inquiry
Intermediate Grades
- Intro. to extended outdoor pursuits
- Leadership in school caring for animals & habitat
- More complex environmental inquiry
- Citizen Science
- Leadership in the school garden use
- Intro. to environmental justice issues
Secondary Grades
- Extended outdoor pursuits
- Citizen science in their larger community
- Involvement in local habitat protection
- Deeper understanding of environmental justice issues
- Active participation in community consultation
- Critical thinking on controversial issues
- Leadership in school & community gardens
- Creation of personal stories of powerful places
Contact Information
I respectfully acknowledge that I live, work and play on the unceded traditional territory of the
K’ómoks First Nation
Serina Allison
Environmental & Outdoor Learning District Teacher
250-650-6421
serina.allison@sd71.bc.ca