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Outdoor Education Curriculum Guide
     
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Our range of adventure options presents various personal and group challenges, while building life-long teamwork skills.
GRADES 5-6 (#1): Adventure Challenge; Bouldering Wall; Mini-Zipline.
GRADES 7-12 (#2): Challenge Course; Climbing Tower; Zipline. 

 
     
Discover amazing things about the animals around you - their habitat, their place in the food chain, their unique habits for survival.
GRADES 5-6 (#1): Pond Communities; Survival Ecology Game;
Exploring Animal Habitats.
Grades 7-12 (#2): Stream Communities; Survival Ecology Game; CSI:Critter Scene Investigations.

 
     
Imagine life as an early settler...what were the unique challenges or benefits? What skills would you need for living and working off the land?
GRADES 5-6: Basic Compass; Archery; Settler History Hike
GRADES 7-12: Map, Compass & Orienteering; Ropes, Knots & Lashings.

 
     
Science classes come alive as you experience them outside! This track explores the various science catagories - biology, geology, ecology and other "ologies."
GRADES 5-6: Woodland Swamp; Water, Air, Rock & Soil; Rock Hounds.
GRADES 7-12: Mountain & Stream Geology; Surface Water Quality.

 
     
If you had to survive outdoors, would you know how to begin? Learn some basic outdoor skills that can serve you in a variety of life settings.
GRADES 5-6: Firebuilding; Basic Compass; Waterfall Hike.
GRADES 7-12: Advanced Orienteering; Outdoor Cooking; Canoeing.

 
     
Do you know what goes on in the heart of the forest? Discover that there is so much more to the woods than obvious trees.
GRADES 5-6: Spruce Mountain Hike; Forest Floor Search;
Trees: the Heart of the Forest.
GRADES 7-12: Changing Creation Hike; Survival Ecology Game.

 
     
Experience a mix of Spruce Lake Outdoor school's most popular academic classes and adventure activities.
GRADES 5-6: Climbing Wall, Survival Ecology Game.
GRADES 7-12: Spruce Mountain Hike, Pond Communities, Climbing Tower.

 
     
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GRADES 5-6: classes.
GRADES 7-12: classes.

 
     
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