IN-PERSON: A TEAM-BUILDING ACTIVITY
IN VIRTUAL: AN ONLINE PRESENTATION
A revolutionary workshop that could replace substitute teaching in schools!
The Treasure Hunt has been designed with a range of themes to keep your students occupied in a very enriching way during, among other things, the absence of your teachers.
Who is this activity for?
The Treasure Hunt is aimed at students in your school board, including but not limited to, elementary, middle, and secondary schools. Virtual schools and postsecondary education are also included.
We have successfully simplified the engineers' actions to make the Building Condition Assessment (BCA) accessible to students, thanks to a highly entertaining and recreational methodology.
Indeed, the fun activity embodied in the treasure hunt has a dimension that is simultaneously educational, academic, scientific, and technical.
Our team and your school board share a common mission to ensure that students benefit from equality of ability, opportunity, choice, and knowledge.
Good to know:
Please note that the Treasure Hunt is adapted to the age & the grade of the participants. Therefore, the systems mentioned on the treasure maps and then distributed during the workshop are also adapted to the students' academic level.
The inspections are purely visual and non-intrusive.
The objectives:
The goal is to "certify" our treasure hunters so that they (the students) become true "Apprentice Building Engineers," covering electrical, mechanical, and civil engineering systems.
SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY are, in fact, major subjects in the province's curriculum. In a constantly evolving technological environment, it becomes essential to adapt and understand our surroundings. This activity allows students to better understand the function of the equipment around them and to realize the usefulness of the technical systems located within their own school or in the facility where the site visit is done.
Treasure Maps:
They are defined as the support used to find technical systems or equipment in the school (the Standard mode). These are associated with electrical engineering, mechanical engineering and civil engineering. On the latter (the treasure maps) also appear the elements associated with the site visit, when the treasure hunt does not take place in a school ( the Exploration mode).
Workshop Procedure:
TEAMWORK / a REAL COMPETITION
Each class is divided into teams.
Yellow inspection helmets, cameras/tablets, and treasure maps containing the items to be found are all distributed to the students at the beginning of the workshop.
Photographing the treasures serves as proof of the discovery of the various systems sought by the students. The "time" factor has been added to the mission to make the activity more competitive. Consequently, the winning team is the one that has identified or located the greatest number of technical elements or systems located in the building in question, based on the time allocated for the inspection or treasure hunt.
Sustainable development & environmental aspect
RESPECTing THE LAND OF THE INDIGENOUS PEOPLE
The Treasure Hunt also aims to make students understand the importance of environmentally sustainable practices. Indeed, the schools in many school boards are located, for the most part, on Indigenous lands, so it is essential that the environmental aspect be taken into consideration.
In-person, there are two (2) options to conduct the workshop: Standard mode and Exploration mode (see below).
In virtual, there is only the Standard mode.
