Seasons Are Changing

This week in EnvOE 9 we:

• Talked about how abiotic and biotic factors interact with each other in our school yard.  What is a rock doing to the grass?  For the Richardson Ground Squirrels?
• Talked about how and why organisms conceal themselves.
• Played Camouflage.  What does this game represent in nature?
• How are producers, consumers, scavengers, etc. organised in nature?
• Looked at Biological Diversity.  Talked about organisms adapt differently based on their environments.
• Talked about advantages and disadvantages of sexual and asexual reproduction.
• Worked on our "Keep our School Beautiful" posters.  When you have indoor time, you should work on them.

Coming Up:

• Predator-Prey 
• Dressing for the activity
• Trip planning

In EnvOE 9 We have been:

• Identifying Biotic and Abiotic factors.
• Observing what they do in our environment.
• Used our environmental stewardship skills to clean up the school yard.
• Used our communication skills to design and start to create a poster/start a campaign: Keep Our School Beautiful
• Talked about planning a trip and being prepared.  What does this look like?  What steps can you take?
• Played Camouflage.  Why do we do it?  What does it have to do with EnvOE?

Coming up:

• Why do we look at making changes to our lifestyle to help the environment?
• Can we work together to achieve a common goal outside?

Welcome to EnvOE 9!

Welcome to Environmental and Outdoor Education 9!

I am looking forward to working with you this year!

So far in EnvOE 9 we have:

• made observations of our school yard 
• recorded our observations on flip chart paper as a group
• what made you happy about our school yard?
• what made you sad about our school yard?
• Reviewed HOTTEA to help support SAFE outdoor trip planning - Hazard, Objective, Team, Tell, Equipment, Alone
• Discussed the difference between BIOTIC and ABIOTIC
• Talked about Choose your own adventure days and participation in cooperative games.

Coming up:

• Why are biotic and abiotic factors important?  How do they interact?
• The great yard clean up expedition.