Daily Agenda
SPRING SEMESTER
Unit 4: Survival skills
1/3
Wilderness Survival Pwpt
Handout: Emergency items
Handout: Notes
1/5
Hike
Journal entry: Nature Mysteries and Explanations (10 points)
1/10
Guest speakers- 10 essentials for hiking
1/12
Finish Group Consensus- Team Building & Cooperation
Survival in the Desert: video
Link to video (37 min)
Turn in the handout at the end of class (10 points)
Slides
1/13
Hike on the urban trail
1/17
Citizen Science project (see Google Classroom)- 10 points
1/19
Arbor Day contest
Create a poster following the contest guidelines- 10 points
Poster due on February 1st.
1/24
Nature Journal: Poetry of Place (10 points)
1/26
Citizen Science
Zooniverse
1/27
topo map practice
1/31
Jumbo Wild
viewing guide (10 points)
2/2
Youth Climate Summit
Participant guide
2023 Toolkit
Document with 2023 directions
2/7
Youth Climate Summit planning
Take Action in Flagstaff
Brainstorm ideas
Project ideas
2/9
Figure 8 climbing knot
2/14
trash pick up day
2/14 snow day
2/16
Seeds of Stewardship program
2/21
snow day
2/23
AZ bird poster (see Google Classroom)- 10 points
2/28
AZ plant poster (see Google Classroom)- 10 points
Present plant and bird posters
3/2
Word Cloud about the nature outside (Google Classroom)
3/3
John Muir
Read a chapter of his adventures and summarize it with a role play or a poster (10 points- excused if you were absent)
3/7
Environmental ethics
situations
making ethical decisions with the Quandary game
3/9
Hike in the snow
3/10
Planet Earth- deserts
Complete the viewing guide as you watch
Spring Break
3/21
Documentary about birds
3/23
Rio de Flag exploration
3/28
Urban trail hike
3/30
Survival bracelet
4/4
Urban trail nature observation
4/6
Climbing techniques and tips
4/7 Climbing gym trip
4/11 ID a tree
4/18- 5/4: Field Guide project
Reviewing and using field guides
Project description here
5/2
Rio de Flag clean-up project
5/9
Final project due
5/11
nature observations
5/12
Work on teacher thank you cards
05/16
Documentary
05/18
Documentary
05/19
5/23
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(FALL SEMESTER)
08/12
Introduction to the class.
Pwpt
UNIT 1: Introduction to the Outdoors
08/17
HW due: Bring the required class supplies (binder with lined paper, notebook, pen, pencil)-10 points
1. Leave No Trace Principles (45 min)
Wilderness- what is it?
08/19
Personalize your notebook in class. Students who forgot their notebooks will make a poster instead.
Directions: On your notebook cover, make a collage of what the outdoors represents for you. Include images, at least 5 key words, and a quote with its author's name.
List of quotes here
Journal entry #1
"I notice, I wonder, it reminds me of"
08/20
Hike on the urban trail
Present your journal entry #1 to the class
08/24
Kahoot (LNT review) play.kahoot.it/#/k/3458bdd3-6838-4b56-ab6d-24e06044f1a7
Pwpt
08/26
Hike
Journal entry #2 "My Secret Plant":
1. Use words, pictures, and numbers to describe a plant.
2. Record unique features, such as growth forms, holes, and colors
3. When I call “time,” give your journal to a partner and challenge them to find your plant by using your notes.
08/31
Leave No Trace Posters (slideshow under 8/17 to review the principles)
Create a poster that explains and illustrates all 7 leave no trace principles (10points)
For each principle:
- include at least one illustration
- include examples of what to do/not do to follow this principle
Present your poster to the class
09/2
Camp Ohno!
9/3
nature journal #3 "to each its own"
UNIT 2: BASIC WILDERNESS SKILLS: PLAN A BACKPACKING TRIP
9/7
Map and Compass activity (with Seeds of Stewardship)
09/9
Camp Ohno/LNT poster presentations
09/14
Compass practice at the park
09/16
Packing: "Are you ready?"
Create a packing list for a backpacking trip
Powerpoint
Handout
Will you make it?
09/21:
Packing for backpacking project
(work on Google Classroom)
09/23
Packing for backpacking project
09/24
Civics day activity
Packing for backpacking project
Packing list for our trip
09/28
Packing for backpacking project due today in Google Classroom
Create a packing list for backpacking using Canva (option to laminate it)
09/30
draw a map of the area for a friend who comes from out of town
Discuss: what are some difficulties they might encounter with that map?
10/5
BRING YOUR PACKED BACKPACK FOR THE TRIP
- check the content of backpacks and weight
10/7
Assignment for the students staying at school: AZ Wilderness (in Google Classroom)
10/8:
HW due: assignment you worked on last class (if not on the trip)
Topo maps
topo map activity A
topo map activity B
Pwpt
10/12
Nightmare land activity (Google Classroom)
intro to the project TOPO MAP project
10/19
TOPO MAP project
10/21 Topo maps
TOPO MAP project
10/22
hike
10/26
HW: TOPO MAP project due today
Present your project in class
10/28-
Nature journal: zoom in, zoom out (10 points)
11/2
campus clean up
Research a National Park
11/4-
Research a National Park
11/5
Research a National Park project due today
UNIT 3: BIKING MAINTENANCE AND SAFETY
11/9
Hike
11/16
Bike safety and maintenance- intro
Pre-test
Pwpt
11/18
Hike
11/19
school assembly
11/23
Bike parts
Pwpt (part 2)
Thanksgiving
11/30
Cycling Jeopardy
Memory Game
Relay Game: Cycling questions
12/2
Bike Hazards
handout
12/7
Bike Post Test (graded activity). The teacher will give you the pre-test back. Now that we have learned a lot about bikes, go over your answers and make changes needed using a different color pen. Turn in the test.
work on final. Description here
12/9
work on final. Description here
12/10
work on final. Description here
12/14
Present your final project today
Take notes on your classmates' stories. handout here
12/16
Outdoor Explorations Picture Gallery
Fall 2019
Watershed project with the Sierra Club
Planting trees in a burn area (A1 Mountain)
Service Learning project in partnership with the NAU Forestry department and the Forest Service
Service Learning project in partnership with the NAU Forestry department and the Forest Service
Spring 2019