During my CFE experience with the Pacific Canada Heritage Centre (PCHC) – Museum of Migration, I engaged in land-based learning. This museum is one without walls but their office is located in Chinatown. Chinatown is located on Coast Salish land and is primary inhabited by generations of Chinese Canadians and …
I am grateful that I was able to do a rural CFE placement with School District 59, which includes Dawson Creek and the surrounding area. Not only did I meet many wonderful people and get to explore a part of BC I had never been to before, but I also …
On July 18th, we visited Pacific Spirit Park and together our group had the following reflections to this week’s guiding questions…. How can we connect students with nature on the lands? Our field trip to Norma Rose Point outdoor education area presented many opportunities to learn and practice how we …
During my practicum, I took students out to the Camosun Bog on multiple occasions. One time, I had them pick any plant and write a few things about their plant. I took pictures of them with their plant, and we made posters about these plants. Most were local: salmonberries, huckleberries, …
I completed my CFE at the Lynn Canyon Ecology Centre in North Vancouver. After co-leading various programs, I collaborated with outdoor educators to create learning resources. One of the resources I designed was an identification guide to provide visitors with a deeper understanding of local plants that can be found …
Today we visited the Beaty Biodiversity Museum on campus for our inquiry class. Here are some reflections and thoughts we had during our visit in relationship to our question…. One story and one experience creates a bias perspective. For example, we discussed the plant “Devils Club”. Different members of our …
Scouring rush is a plant that can be found at our inquiry spot. Devyn grew up in North Vancouver and went to the Cheakamus center while she was a child. The first time we explored this spot, Devyn had identified this plant as one of the plants she had recognized …
After reflecting at the end of last term, we decided we wanted to update our inquiry question to reflect how our learning and inquiry has evolved from “how are outdoor spaces inclusive, and in what ways are they exclusive?” to “what stories does the land have to tell?” We made …
In my last post I talked about Calls to Action and the education reforms needed to acknowledge and reconcile the dark history that lives on Canada’s land. Within the education system, settler narratives and identities are constantly being reproduced (Calderon, 2014). As I was sitting at the bottom of a …
As our Inquiry question continues to evolve, I was thinking about what we wanted to investigate and question further. As our long practicum start date also gets closer, I find this looms larger and larger in my mind and I was thinking about how I might incorporate some of our …
