Exploratory Courses
As part of the compulsory core offerings, Emerado students engage in experiential learning opportunities through a series of Exploratory courses. These courses incorporate learning outcomes from various subject areas, and offer middle years students the opportunity to interact with learning outcomes in smaller groups, using more hands-on activities. Examples of Exploratory offerings include:
- Body Systems - dissections, owl pellets
- Egyptian Museum
- "I Love to Read" literature theme - Literary Cafe
- Outdoor Education - golfing, wall climbing
- Community Service Learning Projects
- Microscope Labs - dissections
- Photo Story
- Newscasts
- Dioramas
- Debating
- "Amazing Race"
- "Drain the Brain"
- "CSI"
- "Real Game"
- Catapults study
- Strategy Games
- Olympics
- "Amazing Race" in Deutschland
Manitoba Education, Training and Youth defines experiential learning as "a learning process that actively engages students in an authentic experience allowing them to make their own discoveries and experiment with knowledge. Students also reflect on their experiences, thus developing new skills, new attitudes, and new theories or ways of thinking. To facilitate experiential learning, teachers plan activities that allow students to be curious, pose questions, investigate, experiment, solve problems, assume responsibility, and construct their own meaning. Learners are engaged intellectually, emotionally, socially, and/or physically. The results of the learning are personal and form the basis for further experience and learning." (Source: Government of Manitoba)
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