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Environmental Education Field Program
This program will allow students to participate in hands-on experimental and data collection activities in a natural outdoor setting. The field project will involve a number of field study kits. Each kit will consist of a backpack filled with laminated directions for a hands-on student investigation, all necessary supplies (i.e., paper, pencils tweezers, string, plastic bags, sample jars, magnifying glass etc.) for a class of thirty students, and questions for debriefing the lesson. The experiments/investigations will take place outside to allow the environment to become an integrating context for learning. Field kits will be designed for outdoor use, a debriefing and evaluation session will follow in the classroom. Kits will contain enough supplies to engage every student in the hands-on activity and ensure that no child is a bystander.
BCAF will offer workshops for all teachers at each participating school prior to introducing the project to the students. It will also be possible for BCAF to lead the investigations/experiments so teachers can get a better idea of how to conduct the activities.
Examples of activities:
• Make a Park
• Noah’s Ark
• Environmental Factors Hunt
• Let’s Plant some Garbage
• Sum of the Parts
• Nature A to Z
• Changes to Global Climate Change
An example of the contents of a field kit may be:
• Curriculum related lesson plan
• Laminated directions for hands-on students investigation
• Debriefing questions
• Evaluation forms
• Pencils
• Log books/ journals
• Magnifying glasses
• Tweezers
• Sample jars
• String
• Rulers
• GPS or compass
• Crayon/Markers
• Plastic bags
• Any other related items
The Environmental Education Field Project is due to be launched at schools in January 2008 and for experiments to begin taking place in the spring. If you are interested in participating in this program please contact our Education Coordinator, Diana Saunders at 902-624-9888 or email at diana@coastalaction.org
Last Modified: Tue, Dec 11, 2007
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