Last week, I was lucky enough to have the opportunity to interact with students at Claremont secondary. For my “booth”, I wanted to utilize some principles of place-based education that I had been researching, and help the students collaborate and contribute.

I ended up creating a giant map of Victoria and Saanich and prompting students to consider:

  1. Where is a place you feel at home?
  2. What is something you love about your community and want to preserve?
  3. What is something you want to improve or transform?

Students then used colours to indicate their choices and wrote a few words on a sticky note explaining their choices. It was really cool to see places that were special to them – some I had never even heard of! Guess I have some more exploring to do over the break.