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Welcome to the 2024 Outdoor Learning Conference
Saturday, May 11 • 9:45am - 11:00am
To love and protect: How land based learning leads to environmental stewardship

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I run a nature-based preschool located on the homelands of the Lekwungen nation. This national award-winning program founded on the partnership between children and their environments focuses on explorative play, land-based learning, stewardship and interactive education. My hands-on workshop invites early years educators to develop knowledge and skills to engage our youngest learners in environmental exploration and stewardship. Through ethics of respect, children learn to see nature as an amazing classroom with boundless learning opportunities. We will practice simple yet effective and accessible techniques to foster young children’s nature-based curiosity and care while having a lot of fun!

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Meera Bandechha

JK Teacher, LOT
As an early childhood educator, for the last decade, I have been involved in the start-up and operation of a nature school program at my preschool. I have been lucky enough to have been one of four educators to have won the Outdoor Canada Play 2021 National Award. I was also a runner-up... Read More →


Saturday May 11, 2024 9:45am - 11:00am MDT
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