Raincoast Field School @ home
“To provide online nature-based learning opportunities for local students.”
Raincoast Field School @ home is an interactive online program delivered by Raincoast Field School instructors, educators and scientists. The program is being created to provide our local students (and beyond!) nature-based programming during COVID-19 related school closures.
Weekly ecology lessons are offered at 11 am PDT on Tuesday and Thursday, and can be joined from a computer, smartphone or tablet. Lessons will be best suited for families with children in Grades K-7. Links to supplementary materials and recorded videos will be posted on the lesson pages below.
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We added one more day! 5 Days from 8:30 - 2:30 Raincoast Education Adventure Camp over Spring Break!
Ages 6 - 12
The Raincoast March break camp gets your child outdoors all day long! Using our brand-new bus, our experienced staff will lead outdoor activities in a new ecosystem each day! Join us as we get our hands wet in the ocean for a beach seine, explore windings streams and the creatures within, run as fast as you can down the wick dunes, and finish off the week roasting treats over a beach fire! Don’t spend your week in front of the T.V. Come explore the region and the wonders within! Spend your week outdoors playing with friends.
Contact the Tofino Recreation Department
(250) 725-3229 ect. 704/705
email: [email protected]
or book via your TofinoRecreation.PerfectMind account
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Temperate Rainforest Experts with Maddy
Ms. Baas’s Grade 1 class always has a fun time on Field Schools and today was no exception! The class begun our day with a rainforest scavenger hunt, looking for signs of temperate rainforests and learning about the importance of moisture and sunlight for a temperate rainforest! We learned about certain quintessential temperate rainforest plants such as salal and electrical cattail moss! While noticing how much the weather changes in Tofino, the class also had so much fun making our own rainstorm with our hands and feet. We finished our morning by receiving our very own Temperate Rainforest booklets and drawing one of the popular rainforest species in each of our own booklets to save for and reference later! The class hopes to have just as much fun on our next field school to the landfill!
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Hi @raincoasted friends - follow what the RES Field School Programs are doing in collaboration with the kids, teachers & principals of our west coast elementary schools. We post photos & a description of what our youth are learning in their outdoor classroom with Kira & Maddy! Check it out on Instagram @raincoastfieldschool
For more info on the program follow the link in our bio & hit this post!
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We've been busy learning about bats and much more in field school! Make sure you check out our other instagram account - @raincoastfieldschool.⠀
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It's a running journal of every lesson we do with our elementary students at Wickaninnish school and UES.⠀
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Head on over and give us a follow to see what the kids have been learning about!⠀
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Thank you all for your donations! Our Double your Dollars campaign was a success.
We were able to raise a total of $24,819.21 before matching. With matching funds from @longbeachlodgeresort and two generous community members we now have $49,638.42 for the 2020/21 year of Raincoast Field School.
We launched the fundraiser in hopes of securing enough funding to keep year-round programs like Field School up and running. Field School delivers about 200 field trips per year to students at Wickaninnish Community School in Tofino and UES in Ucluelet. We run about 200 field trips per year, which means each and every student K-7 gets about 10 trips per year. These trips focus on delivering elements of the BC science curriculum in a hands-on, outdoor setting, helping promote community connections and environmental stewardship.
The funds raised make up about half the yearly budget for Field School and we feel that with additional ongoing community support we can continue to deliver the program year round!
Thank you to @clayoquotbiospheretrust,
we gratefully acknowledge Clayoquot Biosphere Trust’s support of this campaign, our long-time partner in sustainability education in the Biosphere Region. Their donor network was instrumental in the campaigns success. The CBT also administered this matching campaign so that the RES receives 100% of donations with no overhead or transaction fees.
In the video: That's Kira our new #ukeefieldschool coordinator, welcome Kira!
Link in bio for more about the fundraiser and field school
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