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

8. Outdoor Education What we propose: To offer an outdoor education program for students in Marianist High Schools throughout the Province of the United States.

10. 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;

12. 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.

14. What students do: Spend eight days learning about nature while hiking in Rocky Mountain National Parks or along the Appalachian Trail; 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;

16. 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.

21. Textbook

22. Curriculum Overview

23. The classroom……

24. Home

25. Time for celebration !

26. Time for friends

27. Time for learning…..

28. Time for reflection…..

29. Time for fun !

30. …….and what about the wildlife ?

36. Experience Gods wonderful creation through Outdoor Education !

37. Outdoor Education is great !