This week, we were so happy to have the opportunity to visit Fish Creek Provincial Park. We feel very fortunate to have such an amazing natural space within walking distance from our school. Exploring the park is a wonderful fit to our learning in social studies on the different geographic regions of Alberta. Our focus was on the the outcomes: examining the physical geography of Alberta and how Albertans interact with their environment. As the day was a little chilly, it also gave us the opportunity to think what life was like for Alberta's Indigenous people and its early settlers.
Despite the rain, the grade fours had a fantastic time on our field trip to Heritage Park. It was wonderful to experience all of our learning in Social Studies first hand. We sheltered from the rain in a tipi, felt beaver pelts as we learned about the fur trade and rode a train like the ones that helped to make settlement in the West possible. Seeing the first settler homes, the "soddies", homes that housed families with sixteen children and sandstone buildings helped the students to better understand what life was like for early settlers. Most are happy that they are able to go to a school with hundreds of students and one grade per classroom rather than a one room schoolhouse of the past!
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