School Yard Programming
Programming available from
January 14 to March 21, 2025
Conservation Sudbury’s Outdoor Environmental Education team offers schoolyard programs for schools within the City of Greater Sudbury!
Kinder-Winter (JK-SK)
- Explore your school yard to notice signs of winter life around you. Perhaps you will want to learn about animal tracks, or find out what the creatures are doing for the winter – games and hands-on exploration will give you a window on life outdoors in winter.
A Winter Dose of Vitamin N (Grades 1+)
- Get a healthy does of “Vitamin N” (Nature), by spending time outdoors getting to know nature, your school yard and yourself, all at the same time through a variety of nature appreciation activities.
Adaptations to Winter (Grades 1-4)
- Through hands-on activities and games, students will learn about how Northern creatures survive in the winter by adapting to the cold and snow. See your school yard in a whole new light as you learn to recognize signs of creatures that are around when no one is looking!
Snowshoe Rambles (Grade 2+)
- Don’t have access to snowshoes at your school? Let us bring the snowshoes to you! Take a walk and play some games to develop your snowshoeing skills. Best suited for schoolyards that have some room to ramble. Snow conditions permitting (please pick a back-up program in case snow conditions to now allow for this program).
Wild About Team Building (Grades 3+)
- We can learn from the many ways that living creates work together in the natural world. Participate in some “wild” team building activities in the outdoors which will help your class become a better team right in your own school yard!
Winter Survival Skills (Grades 4+)
- Interested in outdoor winter survival? Learn some practical skills in a safe, fun way, which can include the basic needs for survival with a 5 Needs Scavenger Hunt, fire lighting or (mini) shelter building (time and schoolyard permitting)
Winter Ecology (Grades 5+)
- Things may look pretty barren out there in winter – learn to identify signs of life to discover the hidden winter world of your very own school yard. See your school in a whole new light as you learn to recognize signs of creatures that are around when no one is looking! Role-lay being an animal with special adaptations to survive the perils of winter!