Education Program
KEEPING IT LIVING WITH STUDENTS IN THE COMOX VALLEY
This Program provides students with meaningful, place-based learning experiences that connect classroom studies to real-world environmental action. Many students feel overwhelmed by large-scale challenges such as climate change; participating in hands-on field studies helps transform those feelings into empowerment by showing them how local stewardship contributes to broader solutions.
The program also supports long-term learning goals by deepening students’ understanding of local ecosystems, Indigenous knowledge, and community-based restoration. Through direct engagement with environmental professionals and community partners, students are introduced to career pathways connected to the growing green economy, expanding their awareness of future opportunities.
Program Details
Educators are invited to book our program, which includes a comprehensive three-part education and engagement experience. Bookings can be made with Caila.Holbrook@projectwatershed.ca. If our program doesn’t fit with your needs, we may be able to modify it so that it does.
Educators may also download any of the materials for use in their classrooms.
Program components:
- Interactive in-class Powerpoint presentation (40 mins)
- Field Trip ~ including stewardship, knowledge and gamedbased activities (average 2 hours)
- In-class art and writting reflection activity (30 mins)
We prefer to do each component on a seperate day in the order listed. Classes are required to orgaize their own transportation to the field trip location.
Curriculum Connections:
This program supports all BC Curriculum Core Competencies, including communication, creative and critical thinking, personal and cultural identity, and social responsibility. Students develop key science skills such as questioning, investigating, analyzing data, and communicating findings. It also strengthens social studies competencies by exploring local significance, continuity and change, cause and consequence, and ethical decision-making. Through the arts, students connect with ideas presented to them and creatively express their reflections and learning.
Resources
Latest News & Events
Kus-kus-sum Fieldtrip Volunteers
We are taking a group of grade 7 students to the Kus-kus-sum site to learn about estuary ecology and function and assist with planting and plant maintenance. We are looking for volunteers to help facilitate this event by assisting students in completing different activities including planting, plant maintenance, plant identification, and water testing. Training provided!
Spring Education Program and Field Trips
Project Watershed’s “Students Keeping It Living in the Comox Valley” education and engagement program has been met with a huge amount of interest this year as over 50 classes were eager to participate. With funds from TD Friends of the Environment, Peninsula COOP, BC Gaming and Habitat Conservation Trust Fund (link each), we hope to be able to offer our program to 30 of these classes (over 600 students) this spring.
Funders
New Horizons for Seniors Program
The Comox Valley Project Watershed Society’s Seniors Keeping it Living with Students in the Comox Valley project is being funded in part by the Government of Canada’s New Horizons for Seniors Program.