Celebrating Camp Odyssey: A Summer 2021 Recap
We’re excited to share that our popular nature-based summer day camp program will be back in 2022 following a very successful 2021 season!
Wildsight news : Education
Nurtured by Nature
It is undisputed that spending time in the natural world is good for us. It can lift moods, calm anxieties, boost creativity, and improve sleep. And it’s not just physical and mental benefits that the natural world provides us…
Students stuck on the waiting list
No-one will protect what they don’t care about and no-one will care about what they have never experienced.David Attenborough https://vimeo.com/639705469 If you ask my daughter what trees need, she’ll tell you confidently…
Happy New Year! (Wait, what?)
Each year, on the first day of school, there is always a flurry of emails and phone calls within the Wildsight education team wishing one another a “Happy New Year”! For educators, parents, and teachers the beginning of September feels…
New watershed education resources for a new school year
For many in the education world, early September may mark the start of a “new year” just as much as January 1st. It’s an exciting time with back-to-school rituals marked against a backdrop of changing seasons
Inaugural Wildsight Invermere Environmental Pursuits Award
Dana McIntosh, a graduating student at David Thompson Secondary School (DTSS), is the first recipient of Wildsight Invermere’s Environmental Pursuits Award. The annual $500 prize was set up in 2021 to encourage local high school grads to pursue knowledge…
A deep dive into local water
The subject of water is as deep as the ocean itself. You can skim the surface, or dive deep on the subject, look at it from different directions, investigate it through science, mathematics, economics, art, history and more.
Going Beyond Recycling
Beyond Recycling is a Wildsight-run education program that takes students on a journey to explore their energy, waste, and consumption. Through 24 weeks, students go beyond the 3 Rs to really understand where our waste comes from, where it…
Classroom with Outdoors invites environmental explorations
You can almost hear an audible sigh if you stop and listen: the collective release of tension from every teacher, administrator, education assistant, and parent as a full year of COVID teaching comes to a close across B.C.
The heart of learning
Kitchen tables became office cubicles. Family gatherings turned into Zoom meet-ups. And in schools across the country, in-class learning turned to virtual classrooms when COVID-19 arrived more than a year ago.