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OCDSB Outdoor Centres @OCDSBoec

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

Joined January 2014
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Yolanta Krawiecki (She/Her)@YKrawiecki
25 Apr 2025
All ready for the big day tomorrow!!! #SpringIntotheOutdoorsConference @OttCatholicSB @OCDSB @OCDSBoec @OCSBelementary @ocsbindigenous
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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.
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RVCA@RideauValleyCA
13 Sep 2024
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: rvca.ca/outdoor-education/ba…
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OCDSB ContEd@OCDSB_ContEd
12 Sep 2024
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
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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
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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
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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?
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OCDSB ContEd@OCDSB_ContEd
20 Jun 2024
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: ocdsboutdooreducationcentres… #OutdoorEducation #LearningInNature #Teamwork
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Grade 8 students from @glashanleads create some impressive nature mandalas (land art) during their @OCDSBoec "Arts in the Outdoors" field trip. @OCDSB
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Stittsville Public School@StittsvillePS
12 Jun 2024
Our grade 3 students had a blast at the MacSkimming Outdoor Education Centre. @OCDSBoec
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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!
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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
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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.
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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
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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: outdooredcentres@ocdsb.ca @OCDSBoec @OCDSB_ContEd
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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
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Nasim Askarinasab@AskariNasim
6 May 2024
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
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Anita Baudoux@AnitaBaudoux
4 May 2024
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
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Nasim Askarinasab@AskariNasim
2 May 2024
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 👇 canva.com/design/DAGEHgx8vnA…
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Huge traffic jam at the @OCDSBoec this morning caused snowshoe hares on the boardwalks. Traffic returned to normal after the hares crossed the wetland. @OCDSB shared #learning space!
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