Connecting to Place

Students at McNeely Elementary participated in a wind turbine project for applied design, skills, and technologies (ADST). Students identified the global energy need for renewable options such as wind, water and solar potential.

Students at Hamilton Elementary explored the land on which their school is situated. Students used their senses to consider and appreciate this place. They created art that demonstrates their connection to this place, and their appreciation of the land. 

An indigenous herbalist educator came to Burnett Secondary and showed science students some of the uses of plants by the first peoples of this area. Students learned how some plants were used for food, medicine, clothing or ceremonial purposes.

Students at Spul'u'kwuks Elementary created and shared stories as their teacher recorded the math that was emerging and being investigated. Many connections were also made to Core Competency development such as collaboration, communication, social responsibility and creative and critical thinking.

Students at Spul'u'kwuks Elementary have been raising salmonids in their classroom and learning about the salmon’s habitat and life cycle. A district teacher consultant collaborated with the teacher and students to think about where math lives in stories and how stories can help us “act out” and think about mathematics in context. After listening to the consultant share the story of Lady Louse, students considered different types of story structures. Students were invited to create and develop their own stories while focusing on a problem or issue that could be explored through mathematics.

Students at Grauer Elementary engaged in a science inquiry on the various creatures that live at different depths of the ocean. They learned about ocean environments that have a lot of light, and about ocean environments that are in complete darkness. They then made their very own creatures that could thrive in those environments. They also created salmon mobiles with facts that they had gathered, and then hung these salmon mobiles on their class tree.

During outdoor learning time, students at Gilmore Elementary visit their Sit Spots: a place in nature they have chosen to visit over the course of the year. At their Sit Spots, students make observations and ask questions about what they can see, hear, smell or feel. They bring a nature journal and field guides to help them better understand our connection to plants, insects, animals and patterns they encounter. Over time they come to know the land and place in a new way.

Students from Byng Elementary explored collaboration and creativity through building shelters out of PVC pipe. In order to be successful students had to consider the connections they needed, the length of individual pipes and how they might construct something their groups could sit in.

April 1 – 22, 2022
This photo exhibition is an initiative of the City of Richmond’s Sister City Program, which fosters mutual understanding and meaningful connections with other cities and cultures in the interest of our citizens for their common benefit.