Outdoor Education Course - Updated FEB. 14 2024
February 14, 2024 School Activity
Outdoor Education Course:
Grade eight students at General Wolfe have been spending their 2024 outside in the snow when temperatures allow for exploration, or inside completing STEM challenges!
Mrs. Burns and Mr. Reimer have been teaching students how to use tiny pocket-sized computers called “MicroBit’s”. They’ve enjoyed programming the devices to do small tasks such as taking the temperature of rooms in the school, and to become pedometers. Students wrote code on Microsoft’s Make Code program, exploring ways that their MicroBit could count steps. Then took their learning to the halls, running around to see how many steps they could get in!
Students have learned about building shelters for winter survival. The students have begun prepping the snow to build a quinzee (a Canadian snow shelter), and soon will carve it out and truly test their shelter building skills.
Next students have taken to the snow, floating across the field in snowshoes! Students donned snowshoes and tromped around the school yard, practicing and learning about Canadian and Indigenous traditional ways of travel in the winter.
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