In-School Field Trips Any Time of the Year
Children + Plants + Gardens = Love.
Let’s engage children to cultivate a greener world!
Division 1 & 2 Plant and Environmental Care In-School Field Trips
Grade 5 & 6 Financial In-School Field Trips
I offer customized, in-school field trips for Division 1 & Division 2 centered on Alberta Education outcomes.
Let me come alongside you with fun, hands-on, multidisciplinary in-school field trips offered all year!
I offer field trips during the entire school year: Spring, Fall, and Winter.
All field trips are customized to incorporate Alberta Education learning outcomes and activities appropriate to grade, learning, and developmental levels.
Division 1 & 2 have been updated to reflect the learning outcomes of the new 2023 curriculum.
Activities include:
Field Trip Structure
Each field trip is designed with an Interactive Large Group Time including a PowerPoint presentation followed by a rotation through Small Group Learning Stations.
Depending on the grade, there will be an interactive reading of Sharon’s book: The Perfect Place for Plants.
A signed copy of my book will be gifted to each class with each field trip.
Small Group Learning Station Activities include:
- Multisensory, Interactive Learning Stations
- Kindergarten & Division 1: Interactive learning stations include sensory bins, flipbooks, drawing & colouring, puzzles, and planting.
- There might even be some singing!
- Division 2: Learning Stations include creative, multisensory activities like creating flip books, interactive worksheets, leaf rubbings, leaf chromatography (fall), and planting.
- Observation, Discovery, and Discussion
- Each field trip blends in practical elements of environmental stewardship that students of various ages can incorporate in their daily lives.
- Each student will plant their own seedling to take home!
- Cost per student: $17
Alberta Education Outcomes that are Covered:
Division 1:
Kindergarten: Use the senses to make observations about environments and plants, explore seasonal changes, and how to care for the environment respectfully
Grade 1: Explore plants as living things, how they grow & make their own food, and how seasonal changes affect plants and animals
Grade 2: Explore the lifecycle of plants from seed to maturity, identify ways in which people show care for land, plants, and animals
Grade 3: Plants are part of various food chains and use their senses to respond to sensory stimuli, and discuss how humans can protect plants & animals
Division 2:
Grade 4: Plants are living organisms that respond to stimuli, plant structures & functions
Grade 5: How plants are supported by vital biological processes, specifically the roles xylem & phloem in plant transportation systems Grade 6: Ecosytems, particularly the roles plants play in various biological communities of interacting organisms
Interested in booking an in-school field trip with Sharon?
Grade 5 & 6 Financial In-School Field Trips
Yes, you read that right. Just HOW did we get from flowers to finances??
A bit of the backstory includes that my husband, Dan, has an MBA and we have taught financial literacy classes to adults for years.
One of the schools where Dan came along to help with a grade 4/5 pollinator field trip requested that we return to do a Budgeting class with the Grade 5s and a Borrowing and Investing class with the Grade 6s.
And the financial field trips were born!
It was so much fun, we’re offering it as one of our featured field trips!
These field trips can be done anytime during the school year.
Grade 5 Budgeting In-School Field Trip
The Grade 5 budgeting field trip focuses on how effective planning can support financial goals.
This program supports Alberta Education outcomes that focus on identifying financial goals, sifting through the differences between needs and wants, applying budgeting concepts, how to be savvy consumers by discovering how marketing and other elements influence purchasing decisions.
We cover Alberta Education outcomes through:
- Large Group Activities – including an Interactive PowerPoint
- Small Group or Individual Activities where students develop a simple budget plan to explore budgeting components, steps required to compile a budget, and examine the realities of their plan
- Observation and Discussion
- Analysis and Reflection
- Cost per student: $17
Grade 6 Borrowing & Investing In-School Field Trip
The Grade 6 borrowing and investing in-school field trip focuses on investigating concepts related to loans and investing money and how they support financial goals.
This program supports Alberta Education outcomes that focus on identifying financial goals and how borrowing and investing supports them. We explore borrowing concepts that determine loan fitness and how loans can be sourced. The investing concepts delve into different types of investments, their benefits and their risks.
We cover these Alberta Education outcomes through:
- Large Group Activities – including an Interactive PowerPoint
- Small Group or Individual Activities centered around a mini game of Life where students need to keep a budget log with the added twist of opportunities to invest and borrow money and see how those decisions play out.
- Observation and Discussion
- Analysis and Reflection
- Cost per student: $17
Interested in booking a spring in-school field trip with Sharon?
Contact Sharon today to book a field trip day or for more information on school field trips
- gardeningwithsharon@gmail.com
