Outdoor Education Programs

Experience Adventure Recreation is now offering Outdoor Education Programs to Alberta schools and community organizations.

The programs are geared towards the Alberta School Curriculum and include science, physical education, social sciences, the Environmental and Outdoor Education course and the Green Certificate.  We are not a centre, Experience Adventure Recreation takes advantage of the various greens spaces available. 

The green space used could be right behind your school or the provincial and national parks.  We also will be providing a portable climbing wall that can be set up in your school or community centre.  If you require overnight trips or something different than promoted, give us a call and we can custom design you a program.

Animal Studies

Bug Study
Grade Level: Grade 2
Length: Half Day
Cost: $5 / Student

Description:
In this exciting program students will have the opportunity to scour the local environment in search of bugs. Working in groups, students will find and identify local bugs. This program will discuss food chains and how bugs are the basis of many food chains. We will explore threats to these bugs and preservation tools to protect them.
Complimentary Program: Cycles Game or Bird Study

Bird Study
Grade Level: Grade 2
Length: Half Day
Cost: $5 / Student

Description:
Birds are wonderful and mysterious members of our natural world. In the bird study program students will have the opportunity to identify and discover different types of birds, learn about bird adaptations and habitats and become preservation ambassadors.
Complimentary Program: Bug Study.

Animal Life Cycles
Grade Level: Grade 3
Length: Half Day
Cost: $5 / Student

Description:
This program will allow students to investigate different habitats, identify their wildlife inhabitants and discover the adaptations that allow these animals to survive. Students will also have the opportunity to identify and classify local wildlife. A major program focus will include threats, especially those caused by humans and ways to help preserve wildlife.
Complimentary Program: Survival Game or Cycles Game.

Endangered Species
Grade Level: Grade 7 and Up
Length: Half Day
Cost: $5 / Student

Description:
This new spin on the survival game takes what is learned in that program and adds a new twist. Your students, while learning about habitat and niches, will learn about various endangered species by role-playing.

Exploration

Discover Planet Earth
Grade Level: Grade 7
Length: Half Day & Full Day Programs Available
Cost: $5 - 10 / Student

Description:
The planet holds many exciting discoveries. In the Discover Planet Earth program students will explore and discover rocks, minerals, rock cycles, the earths crust, weather, erosion and mountain formation. Students will get to evaluate and interpret fossil records, rock cycles and glaciers. This program can take place in the classroom or in the field.

A Wonderful World of Discovery
Grade Level: Grade 1
Length: Half Day
Cost: $5 / Student

Description:
During this program we will discover the wonderful world around us. The program starts with a hike where students will explore all aspects of nature. The program focuses on wildlife habitat, adaptations, and preservation ideas.
Complimentary Program: Cycles Game

Building Things
Grade Level: Grade 1
Length: Half Day
Cost: $5 / Student

Description:
Kids love to build and create. This program gives students the opportunity to use natural materials to build such things as shelters, bridges, games and art. Students will learn how to identify a variety of materials and how to use them.

Cycles Game
Grade Level: Kindergarten to Grade 3
Length: Half Day
Cost: $5 / Student

Description:
The Cycles game program is designed to facilitate the learning of wildlife habitat, niches and lifecycles. Concepts covered during this program include habitats, niches, producers, consumers and decomposers. Students will learn about wildlife cycle while enjoying this new spin on the game of tag.

Exploring Our Senses
Grade Level: Grade 1
Length: Half Day
Cost: $5 / Student

Description:
Our senses help us to relate and understand our world. In this program your students will have the opportunity to explore all of their senses in a natural environment. They will get to experience the limitations to their senses such as losing one or more of them. In addition, this will be related to wildlife and their senses.
Complimentary Program: Cycles Game

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