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Wild Voices for Kids in your Community
The Columbian Basin Environmental Education Network (CBEEN) offers spring programs for children of all ages!
CBEEN Wild Voices for Kids program is a unique program in the Columbia Basin as it enables local specialists to develop programs connected to the local environment and tailored to their area of expertise and passion. These community educators help students to foster important connections to the local environment.
While a few programs are delivered indoors, most are delivered outdoors, immersing students in their local ecosystems. Whether indoors or outdoors, Wild Voices programs get students learning about and exploring the local environment through hands-on and engaging activities that explore things like the local watershed, the local flora and fauna, and wildlife behaviour, as well as topical issues such as local effects of climate change and wildfire.
Currently, we have 34 local community experts providing 70 different program options!
A few examples of our Spring programs include:
- A Day with Aquatic Macroinvertebrates
- A Short History of the Columbia River
- Agriculture in the Classroom
- Animal Survival Instincts
- Backcountry Food Preparation
- Endangered Mountain Caribou in the Kootenays
- Food Forests & Ecosystem Diversity
- Grizzlies in the Kootenays
- Identifying Trees in your Neighbourhood
- Introduction to Michif Language
- Let’s Get Growing! Garden Planning for Classrooms
- Lichen Collection for Mountain Caribou
- Métis Jigging (pictured below)
- Outdoor Careers in the Kootenays
- Stories of the Forest: Reading the Forestscape
- The Marsh-ians Have Landed: A Pond Study
- The Wonders of Water
- Turtle Truths
- Watershed Connections: A Web of Ecological Diversity
- What Does a Wildlife Biologist See?
We would like to thank the following supporters that help to bring Wild Voices for Kids programs to students throughout the Basin: https://cbeen.ca/cbeen-supporters
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Columbian Basin Environmental Education Network
