Classroom with Outdoors Assumption of Risk Forms
          
   
  
  
    
    
    
      
       
        
          
            
            
              When you've been teaching environmental education for as long as Patty Kolesnichenko has, you learn a thing or two. Like how exploring microscopic life in a water droplet fascinates…Read more 
             
           
         
        
      
        
          
            
            
              "Being in nature creates a feeling of connection; a feeling that you belong. A lot of kids don’t know how to fit into this crazy world.Read more 
             
           
         
        
      
        
          
            
            
              When students step outside the classroom walls and into the wild, something shifts. Learning becomes tactile. For Grade 4 students from Cranbrook's Gordon Terrace Elementary School, it wasn't…Read more 
             
           
         
        
      
        
          
            
            
              My eight-year-old daughter doesn’t go anywhere without her books. They’re her safety net — her escape from the world. But this summer, when we camped at Kootenay Lake, her pile of books sat untouched.Read more 
             
           
         
        
      
        
          
            
            
              "I never anticipated having as much fun as I did," says Maya, a student from Revelstoke, reflecting on a two-week journey along the Columbia River.Read more 
             
           
         
        
      
        
          
            
            
              A curious teen crouches beside a creek to collect a water sample in a vial from the creek's cool flow.Read more 
             
           
         
        
           
   
   
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