What lies beneath…

Posted June 6, 2017

I have always wanted to get underwater video of the Common Snapping Turtle in the pond. Perhaps anticipating egg-laying, she has been hanging around the edges for a few days, so I took the opportunity. Check it out!

Outdoor and Environmental Education

 The Waterloo Region District School Board runs five day-use Outdoor and Environmental Education (OEE) Centres.  Each year we provide immersive, contextual and authentic opportunities to learn about nature and the environment to over 1,000 classes from Grades 1-12.  For over fifty years OEE has been at the forefront of environmental education in Waterloo Region. […]

Camp Heidelberg

The Centre The Camp Heidelberg OEEC became a full-time Outdoor/Environmental Education Centre of the WRDSB after partnering with and leasing the site from the K-W Optimist Club in the fall of 1997. The property is 73 acres and features a hardwood bush, cedar swamp, a beautiful pond, early successional fields, and a Class 1 Provincially […]