Name: Branching Out: Exploring Forestry Education
Start: 2025-05-09T14:00:00-0600
End: 2025-05-09T15:15:00-0600

Welcome to the 2025 Outdoor Learning Conference

Friday May 9, 2025 2:00pm - 3:15pm MDT

201 (Indoor Space)

PLT’s new Explore Your Environment: K-8 Activity Guide includes 50 hands-on, multidisciplinary activities to connect children to nature and increase young people’s awareness and knowledge about their environment. Activities integrate teaching about the environment into a multitude of subjects using hands-on classroom studies and outdoor field investigations. The guide is user-friendly, and works in classrooms and nonformal settings, in urban, suburban, and rural areas. Activities are organized by grade level (K-2, 3-5, and 6-8) and align with national standards for science, English language arts, math, and social studies. Many activities offer variations for a different grade level or focus. While lessons can be conducted both indoors and outdoors, all suggest meaningful ways to take student learning outside.

Session Host

Karine Cere

Indigenous Education Outdoor Learning Curriculum Coordinator, School District 93

Karine is a K to 12 teacher who specializes in outdoor learning and Indigenous education. She has worked as a classroom teacher, a teacher librarian, curriculum coordinator, and university instructor. She is passionate about outdoor learning, well-being and inclusion in education... Read More →

Speakers

Jenna Forslund

Project Learning Tree Canada

"Jenna Forslund, based in Winnipeg, Manitoba, is a dedicated educator with 14 years of public school experience, currently teaching high school science. She holds a Master’s in Education for Sustainable Development from the University of Manitoba and serves as a sessional instructor... Read More →

Friday May 9, 2025 2:00pm - 3:15pm MDT
201 (Indoor Space)

Environmental and Climate Change Education Workshop

Outdoor Learning Conference 2025

Karine Cere

Jenna Forslund

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