Booking Information Day Programs
Booking information
day programs
THINK OUTSIDE WITH COLUMBIA OUTDOOR SCHOOL
We believe that some of the best learning happens outside the classroom. Our outdoor educators can visit your class in their own backyard to provide place based and inquiry focused learning on any of our program themes.
Teaching Styles
Columbia Outdoor School offers curriculum based, outdoor and education. We inspire students to be curious about their connections to nature and place. Using inquiry based learning methods, students will leave camp with the desire to learn more and feel connected to the natural world around them. We believe that some of the best learning happens outside the classroom. Our program themes are focused on environmental and outdoor education, recreation skill development, and leadership. Each program is designed to meet curriculum needs and invite optimum levels of participation and challenge. We accomplish this through fun, place based and collaborative learning experiences in the outdoors!
what camp can do for your school
For more than 40 years, Columbia Outdoor School has been working with schools to provide custom-designed programs to help teachers achieve their classroom goals. Our programs create a sense of belonging, self-worth, and accomplishment, and help students bring those positive impacts and learning back to their classroom and to their everyday lives. Our custom experiential learning programs create deep and meaningful connections between place, participant experience and curriculum.
PROGRAM THEMES
Choose your favourite! We will work with the lead teacher to create a customized program for any grade level based on the theme and goals chosen by the teacher. The Camp Director will organize a call with the Lead Teacher to assess the outcomes they would like for their students. From there, we will develop a custom experience, just for your group!
Community Building
Students will participate in team building challenges and community building initiatives. These programs are designed to facilitate communication, collaboration, and leadership amongst groups while challenging decision making and critical thinking skills. These exciting challenge by choice activities encourage participants to develop trust and teamwork with their peers, while challenging themselves in ways they never have before.
Rec 4 life
Our staff will provide a safe and controlled environment to learn new recreational skills on land and water. The recreation programs invite individual levels of challenge to the participants. The goal of this program is that students will leave with the confidence and passion to participate in outdoor recreation for life.
Survival
Students will understand the critical thinking that needs to take place in a survival situation. Students will learn how to responsibly use natural materials in “stick-ey” situations. Students will gain an appreciation for the wild and leave with knowledge in how to best prepare and act in unexpected situations.
Environmental Science
Students will explore their local eco-system and will cultivate a deeper connection with the natural world through fun, meaningful and collaborative learning experiences. Students will gain a greater understanding of the local forest ecology and the crucial relationships that take place between the living and non-living components of the eco-system.
The Amazing STEM Race
Since the beginning of time, humankind has been in a battle of man vs. the machine. Students will embark on a race completing STEM challenges along the way. This epic race requires innovation, problem-solving, and critical thinking skills (and a healthy amount of competition).
pROGRAMMING cOSTS:
Minimum 20-person booking
Discounted rates of $15 half day and $25 full day per student if you book 51 students or more.
Travel and/ or accommodation costs may need to be added on depending on your location. Please contact the office for more info and availability.
OUTDOOR Education SESSIONS:
half day session - $20.00 Per student
FULL-DAY session - $30.00 per student
PRICES DO NOT INCLUDE GST
what to bring:
Enough parent chaperones to supervise class size. Recommended ratios 1 adult per 5 students (grades K-3), 1 adult per 8 students for grades 4 and up.
Water bottle.
Litter-free snacks and/or lunch.
Warm, waterproof footwear.
Be prepared for the weather (sunscreen, hats, rain jackets, layers, warm coats, hats, extra socks, mittens, etc.)
Sit upons if you have them and would like to bring them.
details
Choose one of the following themes:
1) Community Building- Teambuilding and Leadership
2) Rec 4 Life (Program options may be limited in town depending on location.)
3) Survival
4) Environmental Science
5) The Amazing STEM Race
Please CLICK HERE to learn more about our program themes.