OCDSB Outdoor Centres

Ottawa Carleton District School Board Outdoor Education Centres (MacSkimming & Bill Mason Centre)

[Yolanta Krawiecki (She/Her) @YKrawiecki]

All ready for the big day tomorrow!!!

#SpringIntotheOutdoorsConference

@OttCatholicSB @OCDSB @OCDSBoec @OCSBelementary @ocsbindigenous

[OCDSB Outdoor Centres @OCDSBoec]

The south boardwalk through the wetlands at the Bill Mason Outdoor Education is closed.
All scheduled education programs will continue as planned.
The Ottawa-Carleton District School Board has approved its replacement & construction will begin during the summer of 2025.

[RVCA @RideauValleyCA]

Looking for awesome PD Day activities? Baxter Conservation Area now offers PD #DayCamps for kids aged 6-12! Join us for a day in the forest as we explore, learn & play. Camps follow @OCDSB @OttCatholicSB @UCDSB & @CDSBEO schedules. Learn more & register: https://t.co/Qv1E8THzXX

[OCDSB ContEd @OCDSB_ContEd]

Good morning! 🐦 Check out these cool wildlife pics from MacSkimming Centre @OCDSBoec, captured by @BMcMullenphoto & @gordonimages. Join us on Sep 21 for Open Trails Day! 🌲 #OutdoorEducation #OpenTrailsDay #SummerMemories

[OCDSB Outdoor Centres @OCDSBoec]

This year's bald eagle chick at the @OCDSBoec is growing up so fast! Luckily it has two awesome parents and lots of fish! #biodiversity in @ottawacity @OCDSB

[OCDSB Outdoor Centres @OCDSBoec]

Kindergarten students from @PPARocdsb found & dissected a broad-winged hawk's regurgitated pellet during their @OCDSBoec field trip. They were excited to find within it, a short-tailed shrew's skull and lots of fur and bones. @OCDSB #outdoorlearning

[OCDSB Outdoor Centres @OCDSBoec]

Grade 2s from @HenryLarsenES found this mystery invertebrate inside the vernal pond, during their Growth & Changes in Animals field trip within @OCDSBoec . Students are still working on identifying it. Any guesses?

[OCDSB ContEd @OCDSB_ContEd]

Discover the wonders of outdoor education at the OCDSB Outdoor Education Centres! We're now accepting field trip bookings for the 2024-2025 school year. Find all the information on our website: https://t.co/XHUnbLUom0 #OutdoorEducation #LearningInNature #Teamwork

[OCDSB Outdoor Centres @OCDSBoec]

Grade 8 students from @glashanleads create some impressive nature mandalas (land art) during their @OCDSBoec "Arts in the Outdoors" field trip. @OCDSB

[Stittsville Public School @StittsvillePS]

Our grade 3 students had a blast at the MacSkimming Outdoor Education Centre. @OCDSBoec

[OCDSB Outdoor Centres @OCDSBoec]

During their Plants & Soils program at @OCDSBoec , Grade 3 students from @SouthMarchPS examined wild sarsaparilla, pollinated balsam ragwort flowers with brushes, ate wild strawberries & spotted this Blanding's turtle hiding in the pond. All within the @OCDSB outdoor classroom!

[OCDSB Outdoor Centres @OCDSBoec]

Grade 1 students from @ManotickPS found this blue-spotted #salamander while looking for dragonflies during their @OCDSBoec "Needs of Living Things " program. Students, volunteers and staff were very excited to hear the cicadas start calling. @OCDSB

[OCDSB Outdoor Centres @OCDSBoec]

In 2019, this Eastern white pine tree was part of the @OCDSB "Grows a Forest "program & was later planted at @OCDSBoec after being cared for by @OCDSB students in their classrooms.
This spring, this tree has grown over 30 centimeters & has now reached a height of over 6 feet.

[OCDSB Outdoor Centres @OCDSBoec]

Grade 4s from @RochCarrierES were excited to find this baby snapping #turtle & some salamander larvae in the ephemeral pond, during their Habitats & Communities field trip at the Bill Mason Outdoor Education Centre. @OCDSB

[OCDSB Outdoor Centres @OCDSBoec]

Starting Monday June 3rd 2024, the @OCDSB Outdoor Education Centres (Bill Mason & MacSkimming Centre) will start excepting field trip & site rental registration for the 2024-2025 school year. Please email your interest to: [email protected] @OCDSBoec @OCDSB_ContEd

[OCDSB Outdoor Centres @OCDSBoec]

@WoodroffeHS students built & installed 8 wood duck and 2 Eastern bluebird nesting boxes within the @OCDSBoec. Students left at 1pm and by 1:14pm, a pair of tree swallows were moving into one of the bluebird boxes. #environmentalsustainability #biodiversity @OCDSB

[OCDSB Outdoor Centres @OCDSBoec]

This week, #SHSM students from @WoodroffeHS & @NHS90 planted over 1,120 trees within the @OCDSB 507 acre outdoor classroom. These trees were funded by the @OCDSB & provided by the @RideauValleyCA . For the next 5 years, 1,000 trees will be planted annually inside @OCDSBoec

[Nasim Askarinasab @AskariNasim]

Today we reflected as a class on our last week #ocsbOutdoors field trip @OCDSBoec Bill Mason Centre & created a memory box with all down & dead nature loose parts our Ss collected! ♥️💚 #ocsbBeWell #ocsbJoy #ocsbKinder #ocsbForest @StAnneOCSB @ocsbindigenous @ocsbEco @ocsbArts

[Anita Baudoux @AnitaBaudoux]

Spending time #ocsbOutdoors at the Open Trails Day at Bill Mason Outdoor Education was just what we needed to reset our minds and bodies! (@MrsFreel_OCSB, @misssammantha, @MrsTKroeger) @ocsbEco @OCDSBoec

[Nasim Askarinasab @AskariNasim]

Our @KCBusyBees were forest explorers @OCDSBoec! Thank you Christine & David for teaching & guidance! 🙏❤️
@ocsbindigenous,@scsanders13,@joannenoir & @karenmitchell18 Thank you for your support, guidance & help! ❤️❤️ #ocsbDL
Check out our awsome day 👇
https://t.co/ohVzEUfz1I