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How Wild is Your School?
"How Wild is Your School?" is a fun, energetic, thought provoking way to teach your students about the world around them. Camptown staff will come to your school and working with your class will bring outdoor education to the everyday through a hands on learning experience that not only teaches students about nature, but helps to develop a love for the environment.
Program Offerings:
 45 minute to 1 hour programs done outside at your school
Activity based, hands on learning for 20-40 students at one time
Curriculum applicable to 3rd-8th grades
Multiple classes can receive instruction in one day
Topics align with Indiana Academic Standards
Current topics include Animals
and Their Habitats, Earth Keepers, Orienteering/Map Skills, and Teambuilding.
Program Fees:
$2.00 per student with a minimum charge of $200.00 per school
Benefits to Teachers and Students:
Promotes respect and stewardship for the environment
Allows students to learn from experts in the field
Takes students out of the routine
Gives teachers an opportunity to observe their students in an experiential learning,
outdoor setting
Teacher Quotes
"Camptown was a great experience for my 7th Grade Life Science students! The
program "How Wild is Your School?" was an opportunity to build and reinforce
concepts related to the needs of living things, ecosystems, and food chains.
The approach was hands-on with games and activities to involve all students.
The materials were simple but adequate and easy to work with; the objectives
were met in ways to "stick" with the students. I was amazed at how well the program
correlated with our curriculum, providing connection with prior knowledge and
yet giving "launch points" for new discussions. The Camptown staff were a delight
to work with and they developed a great rapport with the students. The "jewels" for
the program were connecting today's youth with the outdoors and promoting stewardship
of God's created world. "
- Terry Heffelfinger
Heritage Christian
7th grade science
"Camptown's "How Wild is Your School?" program was fantastic. Brent, Don,
and Scott were great with the students and were well prepared w/equipment and
supplies.
Students learned how to survive as different animals and how they can help animals
survive. The activities not only taught the students about the habitats in their
community but it also taught teamwork! There was a good variety of individual
activity, small group, and whole group activities that allowed the students to
have a good change of pace during the hour. Teachers, come prepared to enjoy
the activities just as much as the students! We are really looking forward to
working with Camptown in the future!"
- Michelle Trout
Christel House Academy
4th Grade
PROGRAM DESCRIPTIONS
Name: Animals and Their Habitats
Purpose: Allow students to develop concepts of animals and their habitats and the interrelation between the two.
Group Size: Up to 30 per session
Time Range: 45 to 60 minutes per session
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.
Name: Earth Keepers
Purpose: Show students the role they play in taking care of the environment through fun, hands on activities
Group Size: Up to 30
Time Range: 45 to 60 minutes
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 Hoosier Riverwatch program. By the end of our time together we will certainly look at our actions differently then before and leave as trained Earth Keepers.
Click here for objectives and list of corresponding Indiana Academic Standards (put link to program summary)
Name: Map Skills and Orienteering
Purpose: Allow students to develop a better understanding of maps and compasses as well as how to use them.
Group Size: Up to 30
Time Range: 45 to 60 minutes
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.
Name: Teambuilding
Purpose: Provide opportunities for students to examine what teamwork, examine different roles in a group, and put into practice what it means to work together.
Group Size: Up to 15 (larger groups can be split)
Time Range: 45 to 120 minutes
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.
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