Learning Outside - CCNB

Concerned about eco-anxiety? Check out this upcoming webinar for insights and an opportunity to discuss actions to help our youth (and all of us)

Eco-Anxiety Workshop (Bilingual) Young people have a unique positionality in relation to the mental and emotional dimensions of climate change: they have contributed the least to the crisis, they are and will be disproportionately...

Another week of on-line teaching and, for students, learning from home. Quick Tip: the weather is always right outside and can be incorporated into numerous activities. For more ideas, check the Learning Outside website - I'm adding new ideas and resources daily (learningoutside.ca)

I am writing up some of our Learning Outside weather activities (I'll let you know when they are up on our website), Why am I so passionate about incorporating the study of weather into teaching for all grades? This article sums it up very well.
And the best place to learn about weather is..... outside, of course!

Whether the weather be fine,
Or whether the weather be not,
Whether the weather be cold,
Or whether the weather be hot,
We'll weather the weather
Whatever the weather,
Whether we like it or not!

Why Weather? Top 3 Reasons to Teach Weather - Earth Networks Why NOT weather! You should teach weather to students because it helps them make critical connections, reinforces the scientific method, and helps gets them involved in science.