We are offer curriculum-connected outdoor sessions on Yukon school grounds based on the new BC/Yukon curriculum. We come to your school for half-day or full-day experiences for students on school grounds, using local natural spaces. Programs are offered to students K-12. Additional locations can be arranged. 
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email riverstoridgesyukon@gmail.com to book

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​Discover how local animals and plants change with the northern seasons! Use your Owl Eyes, Deer Ears and Moose Touch to feel your way through each of the sense-sational outdoor games and exploratory activities.
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• Big Ideas: Demonstrate curiosity and a sense of wonder about the world (Science), make exploratory observations using their senses (English)​​
• Connected Content: Living things make changes to accommodate daily and seasonal cycles, adaptations of local plants and animals

Become an animal shelter expert! Explore the world through the eyes of creatures from around the globe as you build homes for animals that live in the great white North or the hot sunny South.
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• Big Ideas: Living things have features and behaviours that help them survive in their environment
• Connected Content: Behavioural adaptations of animals in the local environment, specific properties of materials allow us to use them in different ways

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What goes around comes around! Explore the life cycles of Yukon organisms and cycles of stories. We'll dig in outside in search of natural patterns, listen to First Nation Stories, then create and share our own stories about our unique experiences. 
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• Big Ideas: Experience and interpret the local environment (Science), show awareness of how story in First Peoples cultures connects people to family and community (English)
• Connected Content: Metamorphic and non-metamorphic life cycles of different organisms, features of oral language

Let’s go on a mini adventure! You don’t have to leave the school yard to find wonderful examples of biodiversity all around you. Through group exploration and individual Sit Spots, you will meet local species and see what happens when humans make changes to the environment around them.
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• Big Ideas: Living things are diverse, can be grouped, and interact in their ecosystems (Science), Biodiversity in the local environment (Science), Engage in problem-solving experiences that are connected to place, story, and cultural practices relevant to the local community (Math)
• Connected Content: Likelihood of simulated events using comparative language

Where do the seasons come from? Find out through stories and exploratory outdoor activities that will lead you to the answers! You’ll even get to create a classroom story that tells the tale of an animal through the seasons.
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• Big Ideas: The motion of the earth and the moon cause observable patterns that affect living and nonliving systems (Science), Use language in creative and playful ways to develop style (English)
• Connected Content: Local changes caused by earth’s axis, rotation and orbit, features of oral language

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Become a wild artist! How were natural dyes and pigments used in the past, and are they still used today? Mix science and art together as you explore natural paints made from local plants. How were they made and what will you create with them?

Big Ideas: Everyday materials are often homogenous and heterogeneous mixture (Science), Engaging in creative expression and experiences expands people’s sense of identity and community (Art), Experiencing art is a means to develop empathy for others’ perspectives and experiences (Art)
Connected Content: Pigment use and mixtures, Sieves and filters, Processes, materials, movements, technologies, tools, strategies, and techniques to support creative works

Do you speak Bird Language? You might know more than you think. Get outside to meet the local birds and hear what they’re saying, then get ready for a Bird Challenge that will test your ability to evolve for survival.

Big Ideas: Evolution by natural selection provides an explanation for the diversity & survival of living things 
Connected Content: Organisms have evolved over time, survival needs, natural selection

​Become a soil scientist! Dig a soil pit to explore the layers of the Earth beneath your feet. Learn about local geologic events from First Nation perspectives and get into a game of Tectonic Force to feel the power of the Earth.

Big Ideas: The theory of plate tectonics is the unifying theory that explains Earth’s geological processes.
Connected Content: Plate tectonic movement, major geological events of local significance, First Peoples knowledge of significant local geological events, layers of Earth

​Become a plant biologist! An active, outdoor scavenger hunt will make you look closely at how different organisms reproduce. The clues you collect will help you determine which living things use asexual versus sexual reproduction to help their species survive.

Big Ideas: Cells are derived from cells
Connected Content: Asexual and sexual reproduction, Sustainability of systems 

​Conduct an interview that’s unlike any other! Imagine a world without sight and take a journey that will test your senses. Find out as much as you can about some amazing local plant species and their roles in our everyday lives.

Big Ideas: Construct meaningful personal connections between text, self and world
Connected Content: Literal and inferential meaning