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Directions to Cooking Lake - BLACKFOOT
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Inside Education is excited to offer our award-winning forest education programs to Edmonton and area schools!
This program allows students to explore and experience a local multi-use forest through an exciting full-day, curriculum-based field trip at the Cooking Lake – Blackfoot Provincial Recreation Area and Bunchberry Meadows.
Field Trips are available at both Cooking Lake or Bunchberry in the spring and only Bunchberry in the fall.
*Note: we are currently fully booked at Bunchberry for Fall 2023, but you can still join the waitlist!
- All field trips are no-cost
- A $100/bus subsidy is also available, invoice required - see our busing subsidy policy for details
Program Themes
Forest ecosystems | values of the forest | natural resource development | tree measurements | land use and multiple perspectives | sustainable forest management | careers | trees and their products | stewardship.
Available Programs
Grade 4
Explore the living cycle of the forest by studying plants, how they grow and the role of decomposition. Students will consider the forest as a natural resource and discover how people connect with local forests.
Curriculum Connections:
- Plant Growth and Changes
- Waste in Our World
- Alberta: A Sense of the Land
Grade 6
Connect with the forest by examining the natural and human factors that shape the forest landscape. Students will identify our forest plants, and use real forestry tools to explore a careers.
Curriculum Connections:
- Trees and Forests
- Evidence and Investigations
Junior High
Uncover the interactions in our forest ecosystems by exploring its symbiotic relationships, succession system, and soils along with traditional and modern human uses of our plants and natural resources.
Curriculum Connections:
- Gr. 7 Plants for Food and Fibre
- Interactions and Ecosystems
Junior High | WILDLIFE PROGRAM
This new program will utilize our on-site wildlife cameras to consider how species move and interact in the forest with an emphasis on species at risk and natural development.
Curriculum Connections:
- Environment & Outdoor Education
- Gr. 7 | Interactions and Ecosystems
- Gr. 9 | Biological Diversity
Senior High
Compare old growth and new growth forests through a comprehensive plot study and explore the opportunities and challenges of a multi-use forest area.
Curriculum Connections:
- CTS – Natural Resources – Forestry/Wildlife
- Environment & Outdoor Education
- Biology 20/30 Changes in Living Systems
- Ecosystems and Population Change
Contact program coordinator Natalie Graveline with any questions.
Please inquire if you would like more detail or have a special program request!