This project began as a a collaboration between researchers from 間眅埶AV and the Maple Ridge/Pitt Meadows School District in Fall 2008. The opened in September 2011 with no building; the 88 students (K-7) pursue learning in local parks, the town library, and other public spaces. In 2013 the research team expanded its collaboration to Davis Bay Elementary School in the Sunshine Coast School District; the Nature Primary Program (K-3) opened in September 2013.
Maple Ridge Environmental School Project and the Davis Bay Nature School Project
Principal Investigator: Dr. Sean Blenkinsop
Co-Investigators: Dr. Mark Fettes
Funding Agency: SSHRC
Additional Team Members: Laura Piersol, Michael Derby, Chloe Humphreys, Carlos Ormond
Environmental School - Maple Ridge B.C.
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