Outdoor Learning Conference 2025

Outdoor Learning Conference 2025

Welcome to the 2025 Outdoor Learning Conference

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3:15pm • Land as Our Teacher: Learning From and With the Land, Guided by 4Rs of Indigenous Land-Based Education FULL
8:30pm • 60 min Gentle Movement & Mindfulness Session FULL

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Banff Centre - room TBD

9:00am • Beading is Medicine FULL

Banff Centre Amphitheatre

9:00am • Learn to Carve Soapstone FULL

Bear

3:15pm • Land as Teacher-a settler perspective on incorporating Indigenous ways of knowing and being on the land LIMITED

Beaver

3:15pm • Taking The Lorax Outside as a Literacy Dramatic Activity to Highlight the Urgency in Environmental & Climate Change Education LIMITED

Bus to go to Yamnuska Trailhead

8:00am • Connecting to the Land - A hike at Iya Mnathka FULL

Butterfly

3:15pm • Challenging Social Constructs through Outdoor Learning LIMITED

Cascade Ponds 51°12'42.4"N 115°32'02.2"W - Google Maps

9:00am • Wetland Field Trip for Educators LIMITED

Central Park parking lot -- We will walk along the trail to a safe spot along the Bow River!

9:00am • Connecting Classrooms to Climate: Water Quality Testing at Bow River* LIMITED

Chickadee

3:15pm • Relationship & ReconciliACTION: Weaving Reconciliation, Community & Land-Based Learning LIMITED

Cougar

3:15pm • Embrace This Place! Cultivate Your Own Place-Based Teaching Practice at the Banff Centre LIMITED

Deer

3:15pm • Everyday Curriculum in the School Garden LIMITED

Huron

3:15pm • Climate Change 101 LIMITED

In a meeting room at the Banff Centre though we will move outside as well.

9:00am • Juggling Connections – Building Community through Play and Focus LIMITED

Kinnear Centre

Kinnear Patio Firepit 1

8:30pm • Indigenous Fireside Storytime

Kinnear Patio Firepit 2

8:30pm • Fireside Songs and Smores

McLab Bistro

8:30pm • Mingle at McLab

Moose

3:15pm • Empathy, Immunity and Nature: The Symbiotic Relationship Forged Through Play LIMITED

Otter

3:15pm • Relations and Resilience: Intra-connecting with Land and Place through Hands-on Metaphor LIMITED

Owl

3:15pm • Dramatized Animal Hikes - Stories, Movement and Activities to help children connect to local animals. FILLING

PDC (professional development centre)

9:00am • Forest Play FULL

Porcupine

3:15pm • Playing Outside the Box: Building Boardgames with Found Objects in Nature FILLING

Raccoon

3:15pm • Sitting With Nature: Weaving Together Curriculum, Nature, and Emergent Learning LIMITED

Raven

3:15pm • Building Readers and Writers Through Engaging with Place-based Sustainability Issues LIMITED

Snail

3:15pm • 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! LIMITED

Toad

3:15pm • Whispers of the Earth LIMITED

trail head near a creek or somewhere that we can set up a mini blow up pool

9:00am • Who's at the bottom of the creek? The River Institute's Aquatic Invertebrate Ecology Program LIMITED

Turtle

3:15pm • Nature through our senses FILLING

Vistas Dining Room

5:30pm • Dinner (included with registration)

Outdoor Learning Conference 2025

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