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25 October 2024 @ 10:00 am – 2:00 pm PDT
Outdoor, Place-Based Teacher Workshop in Stanley Park
Stanley Park Ecology’s Education Team are experts in leading outdoor field trips, camps, and workshops. Our mission is to provide accessible, educational, and fun outdoor experiences to children, youth, and adults, focused on ecological education and restoration, sustainability and conservation.
On October 25th’s Professional Development Day, Stanley Park Ecology is offering a unique outdoor educational experience for teachers. Join our team of experts in experiential place-based learning, craft a day filled with personal inquiry, explorative play, structured activities, and reflection-based discussions all within our outdoor classroom. Teachers will learn about local native plants, animals and ecosystems while walking through forests and wetlands of Stanley Park. We provide teachers with examples of how every grade level and subject can find a way to be enhanced in an outdoor classroom, even if it’s a walk around your schoolyard!
The morning will include an interactive walk and sensory experiences, outdoor classroom’s do’s and don’ts, a lunch break, and then discussion-based activities. This workshop runs from 10:00 AM – 2:00 PM and includes a 30-minute lunch break (lunch not included).
Bonus! Participants will receive access to our Teacher Resource Package “Urban Stewards” which contains 9 different lesson plans that can be used and adapted in your classroom.
Getting Here
Transit: #19 bus goes to the loop directly behind the Pavilion on 610 Pipeline Road
Parking: Stanley Park has paid parking nearby the Pavilion on 610 Pipeline Road
Meet at 10:00 AM at the Stanley Park Ecology Office, Salmonberry Room. Located on the second floor of the Stanley Park Pavillion – 610 Pipeline Road, Vancouver, BC V6G 3E2, Canada.
If you have any accessibility or financial questions or concerns, please contact Tatiana at school@stanleyparkecology.ca
We gratefully acknowledge that the land on which we gather and help steward is the unceded and traditional territories of the xʷməθkwəy̓əm (Musqueam), Skwxwú7mesh (Squamish) Nation, and Səl̓ílwətaʔ/Selilwitulh (Tsleil-Waututh) Nation. Since time immemorial, Coast Salish peoples have lived reciprocally with the land, harvesting and cultivating foods and medicines and practicing ceremony. The abundance of these lands and waters, which enables us to live, work, and play here today, is a result of the past and on-going stewardship and advocacy of the Coast Salish peoples.