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