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THERE ARE SO MANY WAYS TO GET LEARNING WITH CPAWS SOUTHERN ALBERTA! 

Here at CPAWS, we believe that EVERYONE can benefit from nature. We want to help you learn about all the gifts that nature has to offer to you, your students, your family, and community. More importantly, we want to help you understand how you can take action and give back to nature.

Since 1997, we have engaged over 175,000 Albertans with environmental programs that teach environmental stewardship through interactive programs—from in-class learning to hands-on outdoor activities, such as guided hikes and field studies,

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VIEW THE THEMES & TOPICS AVAILABLE TO GROUPS OF ALL AGES

Youth Experiences

Indoor, outdoor, and virtual nature experiences for K-12 students across southern Alberta.

Professional Learning

Nature learning for community groups, corporate groups, teachers, and the general public.

INDOOR EXPERIENCES

We will visit you in your classroom or community space. Hands-on activities, visuals, and FUN await!

GUIDED HIKE

Our expert guides bring interpretive stories, fun activities, and curriculum linked themes while taking you on a hike in wilderness or urban park! Hikes are 3-4 hours.

GUIDED COMMUNITY WALK

We will meet you in your local community and show you how you can make the most of the green spaces right at your doorstep! Walks are 1-2 hours.

What our participants are saying

  • Big for me, were the connections made between the grasslands and student mental health and wellness—so strong and surprising. I loved it. I didn’t know we were going there, and so how Sheri tied that in was beautiful. The mutual impact you can have on that which you love, the creation of advocacy. That was really strong. It is so essential that we expose them not to just being out there, but show them interactions, their impacts, their role in the ecosystem’s story. That’s where meaning comes from, and that’s where them caring for the grasslands will come from too.

    – Amanda Klager, Grade 7 & 8 teacher, RancheView School

  • CPAWS Southern Alberta has adapted their well-established education programs specifically to our clientele’s diverse capabilities, interests and sensitivities; making them fun, interactive and universally inclusive. Programs ranging from winter walks in Cochrane to virtual, nature emersion experiences have been very well received and attended by newcomers keen to learn as much as they can about safe recreational practices, environmental stewardship and the sheer abundance of outdoor opportunities awaiting their passion, participation and support. We are pleased to have our community leaders specifically calling to request the CPAWS programs

    –- Fleeha Ahmad, Program Coordinator, Rocky View Immigrant Services.

  • Thank you CPAWS for the best day EVER! I loved it! I wish I could do the same thing all over again a million times!!

    – Grade 4 Student, Livingstone School, Lundbreck, AB

  • Connecting students to indigenous ways of knowing is really important, and CPAWS programming makes those connections. And that is awesome.

    – Liesl Leishman, Grade 6 Teacher, Livingstone School, Lundbreck, AB

  • Thank you for showing me the grasslands. There were pretty views and so many stories from so many people. I really loved it. See you next time. CPAWS rocks!

    – Grade 4 Student, Livingstone School

CONNECT WITH NATURE

Indoor and Outdoor Experiences for Everyone

Encourage Your Students to Connect With Their Natural Landscape

From science to social studies curriculum, CPAWS Southern Alberta experiences fit in directly with the topics that you and your students are learning in the classroom.

Our fun and interactive programs are perfect to get students excited about science and nature.

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Engage Your Community Group

Our programs focus on improving environmental literacy. However, depending on our group, we strive to bring in other elements into our programs. When presenting to New Canadian groups, we work to incorporate English language learning into the program.

We work to help educators better communicate environmental literacy with their students, and how to motivate their students to take action. For corporate groups, libraries, community centres, and other community groups, we engage community members with conservation topics relevant and interesting to participants. We look forward to working with your group!

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Bring Nature Home

Bring Nature Home is a unique educational toolkit that helps students engage in environmental education in the comfort of their own home. This toolkit includes some of CPAWS Southern Alberta’s very own tried and tested games and activities for K-12 students, as well as other online resources to support learning.

Bring Nature Home also provides resources for teachers who are looking for ways to incorporate environmental themes into their students’ learning. We’re also excited to introduce our Climate Game Changers Toolkit designed for adults and youth to guide their climate literacy learning!

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Photo Credit: Christopher Landry

 

TAKE ACTION

ChangeMakers

A community inspired to take action on behalf of our Earth.

Empowering People. Transforming Landscapes. Creating Change.

ChangeMakers is an online community celebrating real-world eco-actions and eco-heroes from around the globe and inside your neighbourhood.

Here we empower and encourage - lean on and learn on.

Here we are all teachers, all trying; modelling, marveling, and moving forward!

Learn more and register today at wearechangemakers.ca.

Want to stay updated on NEW programs for environmental education? Then you’ll love our CPAWS Education Newsletter for teachers, parents, and anyone else interested in learning more about nature!
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