ABOUT

The land as our teacher.

The Fresh Air Project was born during the COVID-19 pandemic of 2020 by eight teacher candidates in the Education for Sustainability cohort at the University of British Columbia. We were concerned about the increased screen time the quarantine was imposing on children and educators alike and wanted to create a resource that could address this issue. 

We developed the Fresh Air Project as an accessible virtual resource  to keep kids engaged with the natural world. We also intended it to be a way to mitigate the stressors faced by educators to find competency-based outdoor activities in a sometimes overwhelming online world. 

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The Fresh Air Project was developed to coincide with British Columbia's K-7 Curriculum, but the activities can easily be adapted depending on your location and curricular goals. We have also tried to keep First People's Principles in mind when creating our activities, and we acknowledge that we exist on the ancestral and traditional lands of people groups who were here millenia before we were. We hope you also will learn from and acknowledge the specific First People groups whose land you gather and learn on. 

We hope the Fresh Air Project will help you and the students you teach engage deeply with the beautiful world we live in. We encourage you to take deep breaths, look with wide eyes, and learn with open hearts.