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The Innovative Learning Centre
In cooperation with the Winnipeg School Division, Eco-Kids and Enviro Techs programs explore the relationship between culture, science and the environment, and link the Aboriginal community's traditional teachings with science curriculum. These programs offer enhanced learning and provide opportunities for inner-city and Aboriginal students to get excited about science, relating indigenous values to traditional scientific and environmental issues.
Innovative Learning Centre
The new Innovative Learning Centre provides opportunities for inner-city and Aboriginal students to get excited about science, relating indigenous values to traditional scientific and environmental issues.
In cooperation with the Winnipeg School Division, Eco-Kids explores the relationship between culture, science and the environment, and links the Aboriginal community's traditional teachings with science curriculum. Children aged 10 to 14 in the Eco-Kids program participate in a wide range of field trips to such locations as Oak Hammock Marsh and Fort Whyte Alive! as well as participating in hands-on environmental science experiments. Each activity gives participants an opportunity to experience success within their school environment.
Enviro Techs, aimed at high school youth, incorporates traditional Aboriginal teachings with environmental science. It taps into academic potential by training teen-agers in Creative Problem Solving and other techniques to promote academic and personal success. The high school students undergo leadership training as well to enable them to work with Eco-Kids and contribute in other positive ways to their community.
“We have welcomed elementary, junior high and high school students to UWinnipeg through our Eco-Kids and Enviro Techs programs and given them a sense of belonging at UWinnipeg,” said Kevin Chief (BA '98), coordinator of UWinnipeg's Innovative Learning Centre and a former Wesmen basketball star. “We're trying to tap kids on the shoulder, so that they may one day see themselves at The University of Winnipeg as an athlete, an environmental studies student, a science student. We want them to know that they can realize their dreams and achieve academic success.”
The Innovative Learning Centre is supported through a gift by The Winnipeg Foundation'gs Moffat Family Fund. Read more [link to September 14 news release]
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