Full-day Field Studies for Schools
Rebels Against the Boring: This isn’t your average field trip!
When students partake in a field study, they build new skills, perspectives, and celebrate their time outside. Imagine your students preparing a fabulous dinner, hiking, exploring, dancing, building, creating, dreaming, laughing, and just enjoying the precious moments of being a kid at their favourite outdoor school. Every Field Study is a Kodak moment!
Our dynamic team is committed to providing exceptional outdoor education services and activities for schools from September to June. We work with teachers, schools, organizations and communities to custom-design a program that fits your needs, budget and curriculum goals. Our field studies immerse students in the wonders of nature-based experiential learning at local parks, schoolyards, forests, hiking trails, beaches and lakes. We offer a dynamic range of programs for all seasons.
See our offerings below or contact us to craft your perfect full-day field study!
How do I plan a Field Study for my Class?
1. Read the set field studies below and decide on your favourite three. Most classes average three studies per day.
2. Contact us so we can learn more about you, your class and your ideas.
3. Based on our conversation, we will put together a comprehensive plan for the day.
4. Let’s get outside and have an awesome outdoor learning experience!
Why Choose Us?
- We are all about building familiar and meaningful relationships with your students, staff and school community.
- We adjust our field study experience to best suit each individual student in collaboration with their teachers.
- Our instructors are skilled outdoor educators and aspiring teachers. We hire the
best, and bring our best. - We have the equipment, staffing, and experience to serve up to 150 students at a time.
- We are flexible, fun, and 100% experiential.
- We can go anywhere! You
pick: your schoolyard, local urban park, or a nearby lake or forested area. - We work within multiple lenses or frameworks of learning. This means that we are NOT a one-dimensional type of education service. We take into account the students’ age, level of interest and comfort, cultural background, and the core competencies that are in place at your institution.
A Day-at-a-glance*
9:00 am: Arrival and Introduction
9:15 am: Welcome & Indigenous Acknowledgement
9:30 am: Team Building Activities
10:45 am: Snack
11:00 am: Learning Station (i.e. Green Gorilla, Outdoor Quests, Forest Cuisine)
12:30 pm: Lunch
1:00 pm: Group Activity (super fun and engaging)
2:15 pm: Debrief
2:30 pm: Departure
*This is a typical schedule that can be modified to fit your schedule, needs, and interests.
Our unique selection of 100% outdoor, Metro Vancouver-based Field Studies
Check out the following ideas for inspiration! Most classes choose two to three field study workshops per day.
Things That Fly & Where the Wild Things Play
Students become young inventors as they design and build things that fly! They will create paper airplanes, sky rockets, and other flying experiments, while making predictions about how high or far they will travel. The session also includes exciting outdoor games and nature play, encouraging creativity, teamwork, and active learning.
Wild Gourmet – Outdoor Cooking Adventure
Students learn simple outdoor cooking skills while preparing delicious “bush snacks” together. With guidance from an experienced outdoor instructor, they will make fruit and chocolate kebabs and bannock, learning how food can be prepared safely and enjoyably outdoors.
Wilderness Pursuits – Outdoor Adventure Skills
This session is full of fun outdoor games and nature-based activities that get students moving, thinking, and working together. Through playful challenges, students build teamwork, confidence, and awareness of the natural world around them. It’s all about learning outside, exploring, and letting kids be kids in nature.
Forest Parkour + Nature Photography
We know what you are thinking. Parkour? Is it safe? Absolutely! We work with students to learn about risk management, safe body movement techniques and physical literacy while also capturing their experience on film. Students explore the forest through safe movement challenges like balancing, climbing, and jumping over natural obstacles. Along the way, they learn about risk awareness and Leave No Trace, helping them care for the environment while they play. Students will also take nature photographs during the activity and receive their photos at the end of the week.
Forest Medicine and Fire Starting
Connecting risk management and leave-no-trace principles with a flint-and-steel fire building challenge, plant-based medicine walks and forest edibles.
WaterWorks
Combining a sense of fun and adventure (paddling) and hands-on learning about costal impacts to create a learning experience that feels important and relevant to your students.
Learn about the BC Shorline through hands on-interactive workshops, along with what factors impact the Salish Sea ecosystem. Through paddleboarding and canoeing workshops, we will learn water saftey, and foundational water naviagation & maneuvering skills mixed with classic paddling games straight out of summer camp!
Wilderness STEM: Design Thinking
The “art & design” of shelter building using basic principles of engineering, hand tools and mathematics. Students will be placed in teams and compete to build the best fort! Science. Technology. Engineering. Math – STEM in the forest.
Green Gorilla: All Natural Toothpaste and Lip Balm Making
Students learn the simple steps of reducing their ecological footprint while working on making various projects such as seed balls, all-natural toothpaste, lip balms and more!
Climate Change Education and Expressive Arts
Students learn about the impacts and causes of climate change, and receive support in expressing their hopes, concerns and ideas about climate change through various creative outlets and art installations.
Gonzo Outdoor Play
For school groups needing something wild, fast-pace, super fun, and – to be quite frank – tire the kids out. Bring your learners back to childhood and put smiles of their faces.
Reach out to inquire about booking your class and participating in a ‘Rebel Against the Boring’ field trip.
Rebels Against the Boring.