Overview
Attention K-3 teachers, Inside Education along with our friends from the ATA’s Global, Environmental, Outdoor Education Council, and with the support of FRIAA and the TD Friends of the Environment Foundation, have tailor-made a program for you!
Together we want to help get students outside and connect to the natural world. Gaining a familiarity with the natural environment and an appreciation for nature sets students up to be thoughtful stewards of the environment and their natural resources, and builds a lifelong relationship to the outdoors.
The Tool Kits have already been distributed to teachers across Alberta, however we encourage you to download the teacher guide and create your own, the full list of materials is included in the guide! Teachers can also borrow kits from the ATA resource library, and Calgary Catholic Schools Resource Library.
Program of Study
This resource is suitable for division 1 students.
Curricular outcomes extend learning objectives from science, social studies and language arts while supporting early literacy and numeracy though outdoor education
Earth Systems
K - How can environments be explored?
Grade 1 - In what ways can environments change?
Grade 2 - How can Earth’s components and relationship to the Sun be explored?
Living Systems
Grade 1 - How do plants and animals survive?
Grade 2 - How do plants and animals live and grow?
Grade 3 - How do plants and animals interact?
Scientific Methods
Grade 1 - What is investigation?
Grade 2 - What methods and processes can be used in scientific investigation?
Grade 3 - How can investigation help to deepen understanding in science?
