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- 6th - 12th
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Students take a reading with a compass and use the compass to reach multiple checkpoints in a scavenger hunt activity. Full Review »
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- 9th - 12th
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Students focus on people's innate navigational abilities. They first read about animal navigation and then compare animal to human navigational capabilities. Full Review »
- Grade Range
- 9th - 12th
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Students watch scenes from survival movie, The Edge, discuss problems, skills, and strategies used by characters, research weather patterns, graph observations, make predictions about weather, and discuss its effects on people and the environment. Full Review »
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- 4th
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Students observe symmetry, radial balance and fractional parts in natural and man-made objects in their environment. They give examples and identify symmetrical and asymmetrical designs. Pupils are given a box of crayons and they divide the crayons into hot and cold colors to identify warm and cool colors. Full Review »
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- 6th - 8th
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Students study navigation skills when a compass is unavailable. They are timed as they move quickly through a predetermined arrangement of numbered traffic cones . They straddle over the cone and read the bearing found on the record sheet, which coincides with the numbered cone they are standing over Full Review »
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- 6th - Higher Ed
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Students recognize the complexity that arises when attempting to develop workable strategies for managing forest resources. They identify different perspectives associated with current issues in forest management. Full Review »
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- 9th - Higher Ed
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Students demonstrate knowledge, skills and attitudes that are necessary for safe and environmentally responsible experiences in the forest. They plan, prepare, conduct and conclude an extended outdoor wilderness trip in the forest. Full Review »
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- 7th - 10th
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Students study the Lewis and Clark Expedition. They map the route they took and develop some creative variations to the route (from Sacagawea's perspective? traveling from the west to the east?) They also practice using a compass. Full Review »
- Grade Range
- 9th - 12th
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Students watch excerpts from popular wilderness survival movie, discuss geographical, environmental, and human factors that affect survival, create maps and survival guides, and participate in adventure education activity. Full Review »

