Workshop Description
Please join us for an adventure outside, as we play and explore our natural surroundings during this workshop. We will share tips, tricks, and strategies from our experiences as educators with Wild Child Nature Immersion and Forest School programs that support emergent learning, risk taking, and samples of activities that we use with our programs. During this workshop we will be going outside regardless of the weather. So please dress for the forecasted conditions.
Facilitator Bio: Heidi Verheul (NS) & Hannah Gehrels (PE)
Heidi Verheul is the Wild Child Program Coordinator for Sierra Club Canada Foundation, founder of the Wild Child Nature Immersion, and cofounder of Wild Child Forest School in Halifax, NS. She has 8 years of experience designing and delivering environmental education programs, a BSc. in Biology, BEd, and an untamed love of being outside. She is currently completing her Forest School Practitioners Course with Forest School Canada.
Hannah Gehrels is the PEI Wild Child Projects Coordinator. She has a BSc. in Biology, a MSc. in Environmental Science, and experience and love for working with kids. She loves researching many plants and animals including birds, bees, frogs, salmon, crabs, and especially lichens and fungi. Hannah has worked as an Environmental Educator at Bamfield Marine Sciences Centre, and was the Site Coordinator for the Let’s Talk Science program at the University of Prince Edward Island.
May 5, 2017
1:00 PM
Slemon Park Hotel & Conference Centre