How It Works

The community learning centre in Tuktoyaktuk offered an on-the-land component for its learners enrolled in the ALBE Science 120 course. Following the curriculum, the learners participated in a variety of assignments, experiments and projects in class and at the end of the course and completed a class project out on the land.

• The project consisted of:
  • Spending 5 – 10 days out on the land at a cabin at Husky Lakes
  • Completing a science journal
    • Recording the temperature each day
    • Recording when the sun rose and set each day
  • A Fish Study
    • Recording the number of fish caught
    • Measuring the fish
    • Weighing the fish
  • A Caribou Study
    • Recording the number of caribou killed
    • Recording where the caribou were found and killed.

This practice was developed for a number of reasons and there were many benefits from the experience. Because the learners were enrolled in the ALBE Science 120 program and were studying water, weather, land, life and basic ecology and had been doing in-class assignments, experiments and projects, it made so much sense to take their new knowledge and ideas they learned in the classroom and apply them to the real world.