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A Tidal WAV of students and teachers in 2025.

     Wild About Vancouver outdoor festivals started in Vancouver in 2015 and spread to the Lower Mainland of Vancouver on the energy of teachers wanting to teach their students the importancew of getting outside to run, play, observe and contribute to conservation efforts in the community. Today leadership is shared between teachers and students.

     Vancouver and its Lower Mainland have become so big that it is challenging to getparticipants in one space for a Wild About Vancouver – Tidal WAV event. For TIDAL WAV 2025, our goal is to help facilitate class, school, and schoold district events. Last year Burnaby Schools led the charge by raising butterflies and planting a pollinator garden to support them once they were set free. This year a Grade 2/3 class at Brentwood Community School is again leading the charge with a project that is being cosponsored by the British Columbia Literacy Council of the International Literacy Association. It is called Building Knowledge Through Birds. It is an interdisciplinary project to develop literacy and science skills while learning about life cycles, habitats, and ecosystems of birds.  The creation of a garden to support local songbird populations will engage students in a meaningful conservation focused activity.  Check out this blog to see the details.

If you’re looking for other ideas, you may want to take a closer look at what is happening in your school  community. Several years ago, Dr. Hart Banack worked with student’s studying  Outdoor Environmental Education in the Faculty of Education, UBC to develop School Scans.  

These scans continue to be a great catalyst to environmental education in schools.  Your own school scan could be the catalyst for you to create your own Wild About Outdoor Learning Project. The idea is to have all projects culminating in June 2025.  

Check them out the school scans below. Contact us on the tab on the home page with questions, comments, and invitations for Wild About volunteers to attend your event.

More than 75 students worked together developing the outdoor learning projects for schools to implement. Each school then contributed an event to Tidal WAV (Wild About Vancouver) Outdoor Learning Festival and invited another school to participate.

Download the school scans and use them to develop your own outdoor learning projects.

Carnarvon Elementary School, Vancouver School Board

Collingwood Neighbourhood Elementary School, Vancouver School Board

L’Ecole Bilingue Elementary School, Vancouver School Board

LivingstonElementary School, Vancouver School Board

Lord Kitchener Elementary School, Vancouver School Board

Lord Selkirk Elementary School, Vancouver School Board

Nightingale Elementary School, Vancouver School Board

Norma Rose Point Elementary School, Vancouver School Board

Quilchena Elementary School, Vancouver School Board

Tecumseh Elementary School, Vancouver School Board

University Hill Elementary School, Vancouver School B