What a fabulous day we had to go on our Fish Creek Park adventure! It was a beautiful morning filled with lots of wandering, wondering and exciting discoveries. Thank you again to all of the parent volunteers who were able to join us and help make this trip so successful - we appreciate you! 💗
Learning Intentions: (Science - Living Systems)
- Understanding the living world, Earth and space are deepened by investigation natural systems and their interactions
I Can:
- discuss ways to respect plants and animals while interacting in various environment
- explain the positive and negative impacts of human behaviour on plants and animals
- discuss how humans might interact with land, plants, and animals if they see land, plants and animals as equals
This trip was inspired the story This Is How I Know by Brittany Luby and Mangeshig Pawis-Steckley. In this beautiful story a child and her grandmother explore their surroundings, taking pleasure in the familiar sights that each new season brings. Together we walk with them through the long summer days filled with wildflowers and bees and the fall days when the animals prepare for hibernation as the days grow cooler and shorter. Next comes dark winter mornings, beautiful dancing skies and a world that is covered with blankets of snow. In the spring, the grandmother and the little girl watch for green shoots poking through the melting snow, chirping peepers and migratory birds returning home. We have also been talking about the different ways the land can teach us about many things such as changing seasons as well as how everything is interconnected. For this trip the students used iPads to capture the different plants and animals that are returning to Fish Creek. We will continue our learning about the different native plants in the park over the next few weeks as we look closely at our pictures and begin to identify them using the Alberta Parks and Friends Of Fish Creek website.
