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Welcome to the 2026 Outdoor Learning Conference
Friday May 8, 2026 2:00pm - 3:15pm MDT
Students of all ages are drawn by nature to story-telling and connection to community. Let’s bring these together as an inquiry stance and explore how students can interpret environmental data to build stories of place; stories that can be used to trace environmental histories, clarify climate change, find community boundaries and paths to belonging, and reveal resilience (or precarity) across human and more-than-human systems around them. We will survey and try some low-tech tools for “place-responsive storywork” including a human timeline of climate history, community inventories, narrative fossicking, living ethnographies, and others. This work has cross-curricular iterations for primary, intermediate, and secondary students, and is an interesting option for inquiring about the UN Sustainable Development Goals at a local level, or simply as a way to connect students to community and place.
Speakers
avatar for Glen Thielmann

Glen Thielmann

Lecturer, UNBC School of Education, University of Northern British Columbia
After a short bear-chased career/careen as an ecosystem geographer and a longer career as a high school Social Studies and Geography teacher in Prince George, BC, Glen has found his way into teacher education (as a lecturer) and environmental studies (as a PhD candidate) at the University... Read More →
Friday May 8, 2026 2:00pm - 3:15pm MDT
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