Moeller High School Outdoor Education Program (Honors Science Elective/1Full credit !)

Outdoor Education What we propose: To offer an outdoor education program to students at Archbishop Moeller High School

What we wish to accomplish: To teach respect for and understanding of nature; To teach students about the human impact on nature and the Christian concern for environmental justice; To foster more active learning by engaging students with the learning environment;

To offer students an opportunity to reflect on the learning process, and to show students how recent discoveries about the brain can help them become life long learners; To help students create a community of learners.

What students do: Spend 6-8 days learning about nature while hiking along the Appalachian Trail or in Rocky Mountain National Park; Attend Ranger talks, view videos, read natural history handbooks for relevant background information; Make daily journal entries about what they observed experientially and how that confirms or refutes what they know vicariously;

Participate in daily discussions about the information in their journals as well as about the experiential learning process; Learn how to care for their living space (e.g. cook, wash clothes), to hike attentively, and to observe the environment carefully.

The classroom……

Time for celebration !

Time for friends

Time for learning…..

Time for reflection…..

Time for fun !

…….and what about the wildlife ?

Experience Gods wonderful creation through Outdoor Education !

Outdoor Education is great !