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Stephen Skoutajan,
2012 Edward Burtynsky Award Winner

Environmental Inquiry:
An Innately Natural Way to Instill Curiosity
Grade 4 Students Use the Local Neighbourhood
Business Strip as a Valued Resource

Nurturing life-long learning is no doubt the wide-ranging goal of 21^st Century educators. We want future generations to learn to critically think and we need to ensure they are prepared to resolve the unknown challenges of tomorrow. The risk takers amongst us throw caution to the wind as we lead young people into authentic learning situations without a clear and focused agenda while trusting our intuition. We hope that the resulting landscape of inquiry allows our students to connect the dots and bring order to the chaos. This is always an intimidating prospect but one that historians, biologists and archeologists have learned is archived in the Earth’s bedrock. Darwin, as he sailed the world aboard the Beagle, knew that a natural learning progression could be best experienced when he was immersed in situations embedded in the real world. (Read more...)

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