Advancing Research & School Activities

Outdoor environmental education activities will be provided for six aided primary schools with themes focused on "forest" and "ocean", aiming to help students understand local ecology and biodiversity while increasing awareness of environmental conservation. Each theme has activities with different durations to meet the needs of the school. In addition, to access the significance of outdoor environmental education in improving children's nature connectedness, all participating schools are required to complete a questionnaire survey.

Participating Schools (names not listed in order)

Forest Theme

Yan Chai Hospital Law Chan Chor Si Primary School
CCC Kei Tsz Primary School
Methodist School

Ocean Theme

PLK Tin Ka Ping Millennium Primary School
Good Counsel Catholic Primary School
Ho Lap Primary School (Sponsored by Sik Sik Yuen)

Forest Theme Activities

Students challenged themselves with Law of the Forest board game
Designed decorative signs, promoting coexistence with birds
Created animal story drama performance
Conducted BioBlitz, learning more about various animals and plants
Primary school students used five senses to explore nature
Cleaning trails and conducted waste audit

Ocean Theme Activities

Learned about the survival mechanism of Sesarmid Crabs via board game
Upcycled ocean glass debris to become beautiful charms
Engaged in voice-acting for coastal creatures!
Understood the function of mangroves via intriguing experiments
Used games to enable students to learn about coastal species
Cleaned the environment for marine species

You are very welcome to browse related research results in “A Report and Handbook on Hong Kong Students' Nature Connectedness and School Outdoor Environmental Education”, understanding how different factors could affect the effectiveness of outdoor environmental education programmes, so as to formulate environmental education-related design strategies. If you have any enquiry about this research, please do not hesitate to contact us at nature@owlhk.org.