Shaping Our Future
Thursday, Jan 28, 2016
Pre-conference Workshop
Dr. John Spence
Position Statement: For healthy child development we need to get kids outside to play. If we get people outside they tend to be more active than when inside (1000-2000 more steps outside, 35% more steps when kids play outside,
Play: activity that is freely chosen, personally directed and intrinsically motivated (Playwork Principles Scrutiny Group, 2005)
Active play: (Active healthy kids Canada 2012)
http://www.participaction.com/report-card-2015/
All children think any activity is play as long as they are having fun. (Glenn et al, 2012)
Societal trends in time use among children (Sturm, 2005) "unstructured playtime has decreased to make room for organized activities
Kids are spending less time outdoors (Clements, 2004)
Sedentary behaviour: CHMS amount of sedentary behaviour increasing in children.
Why are children spending less time playing?
1. games
2. fewer children /household/community (1901 5/house - 2001 2.5/household)
3. risks
Improving the grade (Janssen, 2014) If there was one thing that could be significantly improved on a students report card it would be to
Active Play (Holt et al 2015)
Childrens perspectives of play in grid style vs lollipop
Children mapped where they play.
(Holt, Spence, Sehn & Cultumisu 2008)
Active Canada 2020
Increase the level of activity of every person in Canada
Increased physical activity increases learning
Carter Cox
Just go. Don't plan a single curriculum outcome. Be vulnerable. Walk beside your students. Experiment and learn from the students. You have to spend time in nature with students to discover what is
relevant to them and in order to witness the aha moments,
provocation. Then the role of the teacher is to be crafty enough to spin the learners' interests inspired by authentic real experiences to the curriculum. You will never know it all, so let go of being the all knowing icon standing in front of students.
Outdoor & Environmental Sciences: 3yr High School Program
"Healthy
people come from health food that comes from healthy places”
If every time you leave the classroom for authentic experiential learning opportunities, have a strong curriculum purpose that can be repeated at most places , and then everything else experienced is conducted in a non-formal learning environment.
Our goal for the workshop was to snowshoe to the Kananaskis river to collect soil and conduct the soil experiment. What we did along the way was collaborate all of our ideas of how we could make curriculum links outside of the classroom. "most curriculum links could be taught on this experience."
A grade 2 teacher asked how could he teach phonics, and another teacher immediately came up with the idea of saying the sounds as the snowshoes make different sounds on different surfaces. A few minutes later the idea of using cue cards to give to each student to visualize the sounds and perhaps get them to discover the different sounds. This kind idea generation happens when our brains are being stimulated in place outside of the classroom. The benefit of being active applies to teachers as much as it applies to students.
Christina Pickles
ACEE
Telling stories - "Mouse and Douglas Fir" before Blindfold tree activity
Egg Carton scavenger hunt using descriptive words as clues for finding objects in nature
Solo's
"Pwtwang"- the sound to prevent the person behind you from getting wacked by a branch
http://www.geoec.org/lessons/5min-fieldtrips.pdf
Dave Verhulst
Stories, senses, and Scenery
http://www.canmoreforestplay.com/
Grateful circle
Squirrels chasing each other and the capture the squirrel tail game
Owls: eye sight hiding (camouflage game)
Hearing : 3 instruments
Smelling: 2 teas (spruce, and yarrow) giving back to nature "exchange"
"Coyote's guide to connecting with nature"
Jon Young Ellen Haas, Evan McGowan
"Healing Stories for challenging behaviour"
Susan Harrow
www.sensri.org
"Beyond Ecophobia"
Paul Kelba
Knowledge circle: point the hand forward not up when you want to speak and the last speaker picks the next speaker, no-one else can talk.
Cocktail cups: make a sunday with nature
Dr. Mike Evans
"Better life experience" Eating well, sleeping better, thinking well, moving more.
The biggest change medically happens in peoples homes 2/3 currently.
Nudging kids: LocationHome(parents)/School/Community/Kids(themselves)
Park and Run, the single biggest family event in the UK
Stories trump data, Relationships,trump stories, Individuals trump organizations
The buffet so
We are trying to bacterial no viral
6 types of people
Proactive holistics: kale eating preventative
Self oriented moderates:
spontaneous
(Agnetta Akesson et al., J am Coll Cardio 2014, 64:1299-306)
"What we do everyday matters more than what we do once in a while."
Sitting disease (Ng & Popkin Obes Rev. )
Make your Day harder
http://www.makeyourdayharder.com/
Build one Nudge: Change people's choice architecture
- baby steps
- change environment
- make it easier to the right thing
Look at your life / week
Big Change/small change and habits
willpower/choice architecture
Mindless Overeating/reflection. Mindless Healthy Eating
No chocolate. Perfection/Chocolate. Consistency
Peer to peer health care
Canadian Partnership Against Cancer, director Wendy Rowland
"Life must be lived forward, but can only be understood backwards." Soren Kierkegaard
Kids lunches: Ideo
The Nib: Comic about vaccines
STOMP obesity vs healthy eating
Create or curate: "curation is critical"
http://www.evanshealthlab.com/
"Don't let what you can't do.....prevent you from what you can do"
