School Programs
Our school based adventure programs are designed for 6th through 12th grade students to provide a nature experience with a developmentally appropriate challenge while augmenting the classroom curriculum. We will create custom programming to meet the needs of the students.
Our school programs will utilize the core of our Outdoor Program and teach the Basics (Leave No Trace, First Aid Awareness, Land Navigation, and Connectedness and Mindfulness in Nature), Camping Essentials (Camping Gear, Campsite Selection, and Campfires), Conservation, and Backpacking.
Program Description:
Animals and Their Habitats
Allow students to develop concepts of animals and their habitats and the interrelation between the two. What is a habitat? Who lives there? Where are habitats around our school? These are topics we will discuss as you and your students work through these hands on activities. Students will have the chance to get in the “animal mindset” and discover what animals truly need to survive. Also fits in well as your students discuss food webs and food chains. Do your students already know all about animals and their habitats? These activities will help reinforce these concepts and put them in ways in which the students can see hands-on the concepts they have learned.
Earth Keepers
Show students the role they play in taking care of the environment through fun, hands on activities
Together we will explore how humans impact the environment around us. What happens when an animal’s world gets flipped upside down? How long does it take a plastic bag to decompose? What happens when man encroaches to much on natural settings? All these topics and more will be discussed. If you are close to a river or a body of water we can even explore what clean water looks like through the
Map Skills and Orienteering
Allow students to develop a better understanding of maps and compasses as well as how to use them.
Does that arrow in a compass really always point north? Ever wondered how to use a compass to get around? Then this is the program for you. Together we will explore different map styles including topographic and road maps. We may even have time to make our own maps at the very end. Once we have explored a few maps we will spend time learning how to us a compass. From vocabulary, to everyday use to tricks of the trade, Camptown’s trained wilderness guides will help you and your students use this old navigator’s tool.
Teambuilding
Provide opportunities for students to examine what teamwork, examine different roles in a group, and put into practice what it means to work together. This fun-filled challenging time of individual and group problem solving will allow your students unique opportunities to see what it means to truly work as a team. Whether it is “crossing the peanut butter river” or getting through the “buzz saw” students will be challenged to work together and solve the problems in front of them. Undoubtedly your group will leave more in tune with each other and ready for what is ahead of them. Also a great chance for students to build individual confidence as they each are allowed to add a unique prospective to the problems. Great for a class just starting the year together or really group that wants to learn to work together and treat each other more respectfully.
Our school programs will utilize the core of our Outdoor Program and teach the Basics (Leave No Trace, First Aid Awareness, Land Navigation, and Connectedness and Mindfulness in Nature), Camping Essentials (Camping Gear, Campsite Selection, and Campfires), Conservation, and Backpacking.
Program Description:
- 45 minute to 1 hour programs done outside at your school or local parks (transportation provided by school)
- Activity based, hands on learning
- Curriculum applicable to 6th-12th grades
- Multiple classes can receive instruction in one day
- Topics align with Indiana Academic Standards
- Current topics include The Basics, Camping Essentials, Conservation, and Backpacking
Animals and Their Habitats
Allow students to develop concepts of animals and their habitats and the interrelation between the two. What is a habitat? Who lives there? Where are habitats around our school? These are topics we will discuss as you and your students work through these hands on activities. Students will have the chance to get in the “animal mindset” and discover what animals truly need to survive. Also fits in well as your students discuss food webs and food chains. Do your students already know all about animals and their habitats? These activities will help reinforce these concepts and put them in ways in which the students can see hands-on the concepts they have learned.
Earth Keepers
Show students the role they play in taking care of the environment through fun, hands on activities
Together we will explore how humans impact the environment around us. What happens when an animal’s world gets flipped upside down? How long does it take a plastic bag to decompose? What happens when man encroaches to much on natural settings? All these topics and more will be discussed. If you are close to a river or a body of water we can even explore what clean water looks like through the
Map Skills and Orienteering
Allow students to develop a better understanding of maps and compasses as well as how to use them.
Does that arrow in a compass really always point north? Ever wondered how to use a compass to get around? Then this is the program for you. Together we will explore different map styles including topographic and road maps. We may even have time to make our own maps at the very end. Once we have explored a few maps we will spend time learning how to us a compass. From vocabulary, to everyday use to tricks of the trade, Camptown’s trained wilderness guides will help you and your students use this old navigator’s tool.
Teambuilding
Provide opportunities for students to examine what teamwork, examine different roles in a group, and put into practice what it means to work together. This fun-filled challenging time of individual and group problem solving will allow your students unique opportunities to see what it means to truly work as a team. Whether it is “crossing the peanut butter river” or getting through the “buzz saw” students will be challenged to work together and solve the problems in front of them. Undoubtedly your group will leave more in tune with each other and ready for what is ahead of them. Also a great chance for students to build individual confidence as they each are allowed to add a unique prospective to the problems. Great for a class just starting the year together or really group that wants to learn to work together and treat each other more respectfully.
