FortWhyte Alive

Become Part of Our Teacher’s Club!

As a booking teacher you will receive a 12 month FortWhyte Alive Full Family Membership (Value = $60)
Membership benefits include:

• Free year-round admission
• Teachers’ Club Newsletters
• Free quarterly FortWhyte newsletter subscription
• Fishing privileges
• School brochures mailed directly to your home
• Discounts on Public programs - including paddling and sailing
• Discounts at FortWhyte Nature Shop

Summary of Fees

• Guided Environmental Science Program- $4.75/student (min. $71.25)
• Programmes de sciences environnementales- 4,75$/élève (min. 71,25$)
• Snowshoe Adventure- $4.75/student (min. $71.25)
• Guided Skill Development Program- $5.50/student (min. $82.50)
• Winter Fun Days- $8.50/student (min. $340)
• Self-guided- $2.25/student (min. $45.00)
• Guided/Self-guided Combo- Guided Program fee $4.75/ student + $1.75/student for Self-guided portion
  
• Paddling & Sailing- See schedule
• Teachers and supervising adults admitted FREE!
  

Cancellation Policy

We DO NOT cancel programs. We have alternate indoor activities so outdoor time is minimized on days with extreme weather conditions. Groups canceling at least 14 days ahead of their event will not be charged. All groups failing to show, or canceling within 14 days of the program will be charged 50% of the total fee.

Dressing for the Weather

We ALWAYS go outside - rain, snow or shine! Each student and teacher should bring:

• Fall:
  • Water
  • Sunscreen
  • Bug spray
  • Warm Jacket
  • Hat/toque
  • Mittens
  • Boots/rubber boots
• Winter:
  • Water
  • Sunscreen
  • Toque, scarf, mittens
  • Winter coat and pants
  • Warm boots
  • Extra sweater
  • Long underwear
• Spring:
  • Water
  • Sunscreen
  • Bug spray
  • Hat
  • Rain jacket
  • Rubber boots
  • Extra pair of socks
    

Lunch program

When booking your school program, ask about space available for a half hour garbageless lunch at FWA. Staying for lunch is a great way to get around tight bussing schedules!

The Carbon Bank Program - Say yes to free trees!

Bring a class for a guided or self-guided school program this year and receive FREE trees! There are many reasons to plant a tree - beautifying your school yard, cooling your house, honouring a birthday, providing wildlife habitat. Now there’s another reason! And it will affect people all over the planet. This year, plant a tree for climate change! Climate change is a serious environmental issue caused by our dependence on fossil fuels. We burn fossil fuels to heat our homes, power factories and run our cars and busses. The result of burning fossil fuels is the release of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere, causing our planet to heat up. Trees remove and store carbon dioxide from the atmosphere.

Carbon Sources: Finding the Culprits
The addition of greenhouse gases to the atmosphere traps more heat on Earth. Human activities - driving cars and heating homes - are increasing greenhouse gases at unprecedented rates. Carbon dioxide (CO2) is an important greenhouse gas, one of the "heat-rebounders" in the atmosphere. CO2 is also the product of fossil fuel combustion - it is spewing out the tailpipes of automobiles by the tone - one of the many CARBON SOURCES. Since the Industrial Revolution, we have increased CO2 in the atmosphere by 30% - this may not sound like a lot but it has already caused an increase in the average global temperature. Scientists are no longer saying "if" but "how warm?", and they agree that the consequences will be dramatic and costly.

The results for Manitoba are not just warmer temperatures - they include more extreme weather events, droughts, forest fires, dieback of the boreal forest, pest outbreaks (including mosquitoes); all of which will disable our economy. The impact of climate change is starting to be felt…right now.

Carbon Sinks: Trees to the Rescue!
During the process of photosynthesis, trees ’breathe’ in CO2 and convert it into leaves, branches and bark. Because of this, we call them CARBON SINKS! Tree Canada states that one Canadian tree can remove more than 9 kg of CO2 from the atmosphere each year or more than 700 kg in its lifetime. Think of the amount of CO2 that the world’s forests can suck out of the air each year.

How Many Trees?
How many trees do you need to plant to create a FWA Field Trip Carbon Balance?

How will you travel to FortWhyte Alive? Choose a. or b.
a. Travel by Car _______ cars x _______ km = _______ Total km.
_______Total km x 0.25 / 9 = _______ trees!

Our School will plant _______ trees to create a Field Trip Carbon Balance. These trees will absorb all the carbon dioxide produced by our cars, travelling from school to FortWhyte and back.

b. Travel by Bus _______ km x 0.54 / 9 = _______ trees!

Our School will plant _______ trees to create a Field Trip Carbon Balance. These trees will absorb all the carbon dioxide produced by our bus, travelling from school to FortWhyte and back.