Seasons Are Changing

This Week In EnvOE 8 we:

• Talked about strategies animals use to hide.
• Played Camouflage.
• Talked about a general pyramid organisation of organisms.  Produces, Consumers, Virus.....
• Played the Predator-Prey game.  When we play the game why do we start with more producers than anything else?

Coming Up:

• Dress for Success - in EnvOE
• How is your poster promoting "Keeping our School Beautiful" coming along?  When we have indoor days, you should take time to work on it.

In EnvOE 8 we have been working on:

• Identifying biotic and abiotic factors in our school yard
• How do they interact?  Why is that important?
• Observing weather changes and what would be safe and comfortable conditions for outdoor activity.  
• What are our responsibilities to ensure our activity is comfortable and safe?
• Played camouflage.  Why do we play?  How is it related to EnvOE?
• Started our "Keep our School Beautiful" assignment for communication and environmental stewardship.  
• What is stewardship and why is it important?

Coming up:

• What life style changes can we make to help our environment?
• Why do you think they are important?
• Finish our School Environmental Stewardship poster.
• Explore how camouflage and EnvOE are connected.

Welcome to EnvOE 8

Welcome to Environmental and Outdoor Education 8!

I am looking forward to working with you this year!

So far in EnvOE 8 we have:

• Walked around out school.
• made observations of our school yard 
• recorded our observations on flip chart paper as a group
• what made you happy about our school yard?
• what made you sad about our school yard?
• Talked about HOTTEA to help support SAFE outdoor trip planning - Hazard, Objective, Team, Tell, Equipment, Alone
• Talked about Choose your own adventure days and participation in cooperative games such as camouflage.

Coming up:

• Why are biotic and abiotic factors important?  How do they interact?
• The great yard clean up expedition.