experiential sciences 11 es 11 salt spring island)
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EXPERIENTIAL SCIENCES 11ES 11
Salt Spring Island)
PRINCIPLES OF ES 11
• Offering a variety of learning styles: visual, auditory and tactile
– hands on field work activities related to curriculum material (integration of subjects)
– speakers sharing working experiences
• Providing students opportunities– Personal choice about the program– Field projects– Providing life experiences with a group of peers
Courses offered• Biology 4credits• Chemistry 4credits• Geography 4 credits• Physical Education 4 credits• Applied skills (field studies) 2 credits• Applied art (art) 2 credits
Total: 20 creditsinstead of 16
• More hours spend in classroom (no bells) and in the field (long days).
Program features• Field activities: monitoring activities: beach
transects (inventory), forestry plots , population studies (barnacles, shore crab)
• Laboratories (Tuesdays and Thursday at the College).
• Major field trip (25 days +)• Semester projects (birds, squeleton, slide show,
film, website, etc.)• Controlled agenda with no bell / effective use of
time
Day field trips
• Examples of previous day trips:- Seedling plantation Haines Junction (1995)- Teslin model forest- Frog population study- Envirothon field work- Snow studies- Caribou tracking field work
Hands on activities
Forestry triangular plot
Major field trip(September 26-October 22)
• Rules for major trip• - follow teacher’s agenda• - eat the food that is offered to you• - always stay with the group • - no alcohol, no smoking and no sex • - polite communication with instructors and peer• - serious disciplinary problems could result in a fly
back to Whitehorse• - liability issues are high for the teacher, and what the
teacher and chaperon say goes. • - have fun and learn as much as you can from this trip
Trip dates• Departure: September 26th• 8:30 am Wood Street School
-Bring material to school the day before
General driving schedule:- Drive to Prince Rupert - Ferry to Port Hardy - Travel on the Island- Ferry to Prince Rupert- Ferry to Juneau- Ferry to Skagway
Arrival October 22nd at 4pm Wood Street
Program fee
Student cost: ($550)-Food (lunch and breakfast) when not on the ferry and two dinners.-Activities cost (sailing, scuba diving, caving, marine ecology station, museum visit, surfing)Department cost:- Transportation, chaperon and gas-Lodging when needed
Trip expenses
• Personal expenses:
Minimum $300.00 for the trip to pay for:-food on ferry (4 breakfasts- 4 lunches-
4 dinners) - 2 dinners in restaurant- Laundry (approx. 6 times )- Personal shopping expenses
- One dinner for the group
Trip organisation:
- Equipment list supplied in trip journal
- One duffle bag and a small day pack
- Books: art journal, trip journal, marine journal, geography workbook, chemistry or biology textbook
- Group material: Field study kits, cooking gear, reference books, art material
Forms to be completed as soon as possible:
Diving forms___ Diving medical form ___ Waiver and release of responsibility (SSI)
- signed in advance- video to be watch with instructor
___ Training record diver
Others:___ US customs form
Location we visit:SkagwayJuneauPrince RupertPort HardyPort McNeilCampbell RiverCourtneyNanaimoVictoria SidneyPort AlberniTofinoSalt Spring Island
Field work dissection
Sailing around Pirate’s Cove
Sailing hobie cat catamaran
Horn Lake Caves
Forestry activities
Forestry activitiesWestern Forest Product
Log Sort Yard
Diving in Port McNeil
Marine Ecology Station Sidney
Field workPlankton grab
Monitoring the forest at theMount Tuan ecological reserve on Salt Spring Island
Royal BC MuseumVictoria
Ferry time
Shore-Crabe mark-recapture study inCourtenay
FROG: MARK-RECAPTURE (Whitehorse)
SURFING WITH SURF SISTERIN TOFINO
Whale museum Telegraph Cove
Marble RiverHatchery(Port McNeil)
Juneau
University of South-East Alaska
Laundry timePrince Rupert
Lunch on the Road
Old growth forest and estuaries (Gold Stream Park)
Field workTide pool inventoryFrench Beach
Speakers in the FieldSalt Spring Island(John Flannigan mayfly specialist)
Sleeping in gymnasiums
Resource management (geography) and fish farmsPort McNeil