Outdoor Learning Conference 2025

Outdoor Learning Conference 2025

Welcome to the 2025 Outdoor Learning Conference

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7:59am MDT

*Pre Conference Field Experiences*

8:00am MDT

Connecting to the Land - A hike at Iya Mnathka

8:30am MDT

Conference Registration

9:00am MDT

Beading is Medicine

9:00am MDT

Connecting Classrooms to Climate: Water Quality Testing at Bow River*

9:00am MDT

Engaging with the Land Through Birds and Technology

9:00am MDT

Forest Bathing

9:00am MDT

Forest Play

9:00am MDT

Juggling Connections – Building Community through Play and Focus

9:00am MDT

Learn to Carve Soapstone

9:00am MDT

Listen to the Land: Sacred Buffalo Guardian Hike

9:00am MDT

Wetland Field Trip for Educators

9:00am MDT

Who's at the bottom of the creek? The River Institute's Aquatic Invertebrate Ecology Program

11:00am MDT

Author Signing with Jacob Rodenburg

12:00pm MDT

Author Signing with Lauren MacLean

1:00pm MDT

Welcome and Conference Opening

1:30pm MDT

Slow Networking - Plenary Icebreaker

2:00pm MDT

Indigenous Land-Based Learning Panel Keynote

2:45pm MDT

Coffee and Snack Break (Included)

3:14pm MDT

*Education Session A*

3:15pm MDT

Building Readers and Writers Through Engaging with Place-based Sustainability Issues

3:15pm MDT

Challenging Social Constructs through Outdoor Learning

3:15pm MDT

Climate Change 101

3:15pm MDT

Dramatized Animal Hikes - Stories, Movement and Activities to help children connect to local animals.

3:15pm MDT

Everyday Curriculum in the School Garden

3:15pm MDT

Nature through our senses

3:15pm MDT

Taking The Lorax Outside as a Literacy Dramatic Activity to Highlight the Urgency in Environmental & Climate Change Education

3:15pm MDT

Embrace This Place! Cultivate Your Own Place-Based Teaching Practice at the Banff Centre

3:15pm MDT

Empathy, Immunity and Nature: The Symbiotic Relationship Forged Through Play

3:15pm MDT

Outdoor learning for students with complex needs: all you need is an open mind! L’apprentissage en plein air pour élèves ayant des besoins complexes: tout ce qu’il faut, c'est l'esprit ouvert!

3:15pm MDT

Playing Outside the Box: Building Boardgames with Found Objects in Nature

3:15pm MDT

Relations and Resilience: Intra-connecting with Land and Place through Hands-on Metaphor

3:15pm MDT

Sitting With Nature: Weaving Together Curriculum, Nature, and Emergent Learning

3:15pm MDT

Ani to Pisi - Creating Community on the Land

3:15pm MDT

Land as Our Teacher: Learning From and With the Land, Guided by 4Rs of Indigenous Land-Based Education

3:15pm MDT

Land as Teacher-a settler perspective on incorporating Indigenous ways of knowing and being on the land

3:15pm MDT

Relationship & ReconciliACTION: Weaving Reconciliation, Community & Land-Based Learning

3:15pm MDT

Whispers of the Earth

4:30pm MDT

Author Signing with Rachel Tidd

4:30pm MDT

Afternoon Social and Exhibitor Fair

5:30pm MDT

Dinner (included with registration)

6:30pm MDT

Author Signing with Jen Ball

7:00pm MDT

TEDtalk style Keynote

8:29pm MDT

*Social and Connection Spaces*

8:30pm MDT

60 min Gentle Movement & Mindfulness Session

8:30pm MDT

Indigenous Perspectives: Short Film Showcase on Environmental Issues Across Canada

8:30pm MDT

Fireside Songs and Smores

8:30pm MDT

Indigenous Fireside Storytime

8:30pm MDT

Mingle at McLab

Outdoor Learning Conference 2025

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