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I am not sure if I have mentioned this - but I have been working with, and helping build a Learning Community at my College. A Learning Community is a class where you sign up for multiple classes at once, get a combined class, smaller class sizes, multiple professors and a singular theme.
In this class we have combined Biology 2 and a class called "Outdoor Expeditioning". I come along (even though I am a professor of Philosophy and Religion) to teach students about Survival skills. The class essentially is a Backpacking 101 class combined with a Biology class - I volunteer as value added.
We went out to a state park for the first trip with the students this year and taught them a bunch.
How to set up a tent, select gear and pack the gear, nutrition on the trail and so on. While we hike the Biology professor (who is a wildlife Biologist) stops them along the way and applies book knowledge to the field.
Here is the view from my tent in the morning:
Looking for wild edibles - it is EARLY spring - so they were tough to find:
This state park allows Geocache's - so the students were introduced to that game and found a few on their own (we have class GPS's):
2nd Geocache - they found 8 that day:
Here I am teaching basic map and compass skills:
I am talking about triangulation here:
At lunch I taught them how to build a PSK:
At dinner both nights I taught them Axe and Blade use and safety:
I also taught them three ways to make a fire lay and start fire. Flint and steel, Match, and Firesteel. Here is the result on night two.
Hope you dig.
TF
In this class we have combined Biology 2 and a class called "Outdoor Expeditioning". I come along (even though I am a professor of Philosophy and Religion) to teach students about Survival skills. The class essentially is a Backpacking 101 class combined with a Biology class - I volunteer as value added.
We went out to a state park for the first trip with the students this year and taught them a bunch.
How to set up a tent, select gear and pack the gear, nutrition on the trail and so on. While we hike the Biology professor (who is a wildlife Biologist) stops them along the way and applies book knowledge to the field.
Here is the view from my tent in the morning:
Looking for wild edibles - it is EARLY spring - so they were tough to find:
This state park allows Geocache's - so the students were introduced to that game and found a few on their own (we have class GPS's):
2nd Geocache - they found 8 that day:
Here I am teaching basic map and compass skills:
I am talking about triangulation here:
At lunch I taught them how to build a PSK:
At dinner both nights I taught them Axe and Blade use and safety:
I also taught them three ways to make a fire lay and start fire. Flint and steel, Match, and Firesteel. Here is the result on night two.
Hope you dig.
TF
Just askin'
