Curriculum Based School Programs for Grades 4 through 8.
*Programs run rain or shine. Please encourage students to dress appropriately. Please read the cancellation policy, to avoid fees for last minute cancellations. Thank you!
These programs cover the early history of the Calgary area. The transition of the land from traditional First Nations and Metis lifestyle, to the selling of the land by the Government to Ranchers and Farmers, has forever changed the landscape. Your class experiences the land through the lens of the people of the late1880’s to the early 1900's.
Inquiry-based learning techniques and hands on learning help students explore for themselves how the plants and trees were part of the human experience of these times.
Points covered include:
1. An introduction to the First Nations people of the area. 2. Cultural relationships with trees and plants
3. European uses of trees and plants for new tools and homes.
4. How European settlement quickly changed the landscape.
Locations outside of Calgary for Rural schools include: Long Prairie Ridge, the Okotoks River Valley, Diamond Valley, and the Cochrane Ranche historic site.
Locations inside of Calgary for CBE schools include: Fish Creek Provincial Park - Bebo Grove, Bowness Park, Lower Edworthy Park, North Weaslehead natural environment park and Nose Hill natural environment park - Edgemont entrance.
Book a full or half day of adventure discovering the human and natural history of the Calgary area. We are currently only able to take 1 class per day or to have 2 classes and have one with the teacher in the am, while the 2nd class is with FCA and switch in the afternoon.
PLANTS AS FOOD and FIBRE is the foundation of this program. We take students back in time. What trees did Blackfoot make their lodges from? How did ranchers know where to dig a well? What plant can stop bleeding? Where did the Metis prefer to place their trap lines? What was the original grass that supported cattle in the winter?
By immersing your class into a local landscape, they gain a brief glimpse into the knowledge of the land by the Tsuu Tina, Nakoda Sioux, Metis and early Europeans. Our inter-disciplinary approach teaches:
- The human history of the land and early people’s relationship with forest and grassland ecosystems.
- Inquiry based learning for plant identification and habitat awareness.
- Exploratory learning about interactions between trees, plants, sunlight, slope, weather and wildlife within 3 Eco-systems.
- The human impact on the land over time. How different world views, create very different outcomes for a landscape.
This program connects with various Science Units as well as Social Studies. Plants as Food and Fibre and Interactions and Eco-systems. Effects of water and sunlight, how wind moves in waves. The water cycle on the land. Human settlement of the land based on resources, geography and climate.
Locations outside of Calgary for Rural schools include: Long Prairie Ridge, The Cochrane ranch historic site, Diamond Valley and the Okotoks River Valley.
Locations inside of Calgary for CBE schools include: Fish Creek Provincial Park - Bebo Grove, Bowness park, Edworthy park, North Weaslehead natural environment park, and Nose Hill Park - Edgemont entrance.
Price per class (all grades) - Full Day, $295 for the first class and $255 for additional classes. Our Maximum is 2 classes per day. We are currently only able to take one class at a time, or have the teacher with a class in the am and FCA is with the 2nd class, then switch in the afternoon.
Half days are available for inner city outings only.
Price per class - $245 for the first class and $225 for additional classes.
HOMESCHOOL PROGRAMS ALSO AVAILABLE!
*Please contact info@full-circle-adventures.com to set a date for your program.
"Thanks again for a fabulous field trip! The kids (and the teachers) had an amazing time and we all agreed that we should have come for a full day because it was so fantastic."
- Lindsey Bin
Grade 5 Teacher / Outreach Coordinator