Outdoor Education
UWC Thailand
This cross-subject outdoor learning unit not only provides an enriching and immersive learning experience, it also teaches students that tangible action can be taken as a result of their work. It all starts with a Grade 2 unit based on the PYP unit of inquiry ‘Sharing the planet’ where students look at conflict and relationships with nature. The students go on three hikes over the course of three weeks that aim to show different aspects of their relationship with the natural world. For the final piece of this learning experience, students are asked to present their comic books to both Grade 6 and Grade 12 students. The Grade 6 students will take the information from the comic books and map out the areas with the most significant volume of trash using the navigation skills they have worked on in the previous weeks of their own Outdoor Education unit. From both of these previous activities, the Grade 12 students will soon after organise a student-led trail clean as part of a school-wide service day. The information they have been given is used to prepare teams to tackle the trail clean more efficiently.
Catch a glimpse of the UWC Thailand students clean-up in action in the video below.
