2021 WESSA Annual Review

EDUCATION CENTRES: EXCITING NEW OFFERINGS!

The Education Centre’s team is constantly looking for new opportunities to use our beautiful centre locations as teaching platforms. Here are the new innovative offerings available at our outdoor classrooms.

ONLINE FIELD STUDY TRIPS An opportunity presented itself in 2021 for the centre teams to create and deliver online lectures and virtual field trips to both schools and universities who are unable to visit in person. This can lead to an exciting new business opportunity and can be expanded past South Africa’s borders too. UKZN Climate Change Classroom: The team delivered a 1-day fieldtrip to 30 4th Year Trainee Teachers and Lecturers focusing on the causes and effects of Climate Change. Using in-situ videos at Treasure Beach, Twinstreams and uMngeni Valley, a series of virtual fieldtrips were delivered online through a blended learning approach. The World Environment Day e-Learning Platform: WESSA collaborated with UNEP, Cape Nature and The Western Cape Education Department to develop a e-Learning teaching tool to teach primary school students about ecological restoration. Twinstreams was showcased as an example of long- term restoration and protection success. Ruth Garland, daughter of Dr. Ian Garland was interviewed from Australia, and described her father’s legacy of 75 years of best practice.

See the e-classroom here:

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