Exit slip 09/21

I have enjoyed the time being outside and I think students would benefit from having time outside as well. Some benefits I noticed were: feeling peace through connecting with nature, community building with the class and generally better mood compared to being inside a class. Many students may come from families that do not spend a lot of time outside and perhaps a lot of their life is spent indoors. I think it is a great educational opportunity to let them interact with nature and explore the beauty of the living things around us. The crafts and skills we learned were a great way to connect with human history and working with my hands is always a relaxing activity that I think students in high school would also enjoy. I find it hard to connect these activities to a grade 11 or 12 curriculum. In the grade 9 curriculum, I notice one of the competencies is to " use tools to explore and create patterns and relationships" as well as "develop, demonstrate, and apply mathematical understanding through play, inquiry, and problem solving". I can see how that could be done in an outside environment. My conclusion is that I want to spend some time thinking of how the competencies could be taught outside.