Wilderness Experience Environmental Education Program
Mission: To enable youth to utilize hands-on science and team-building activities to foster positive student relationships and to promote good stewardship of the environment.
Curriculum and Schedule
Wilderness Experience curriculum meets the California science standards for 5th and 6th grade. Our classes focus on the natural sciences, environmental stewardship, and team-building. Classes are taught by Wilderness Experience guides with supervisory assistance from chaperones that the school provides. All classes involve some hiking. The program consists of four day-trips throughout the school year. Each day-trip will focus on a different season of the year, geographic location, and wilderness skill set. Prior to each day-trip, a Wilderness Experience staff mem
ber will come into your classroom and instruct students on the experiences they can expect to have on the trip.Locations and Topics
• Feather River Watershed and Big Bald Rock: This is a great spring trip. We will learn about watersheds, water preservation, and then hike to the peak of a granite dome and teach about the Sierra Nevada mountain range.
• Iron Canyon Point, near Red Bluff, CA: This is a good fall or spring hike. We will teach Northern California geography, navigation and orienteering, and learn about the Sacramento Valley area.
• Sacramento Valley Trip: Hike in Sacramento Wildlife Refuge learning about local wildlife and the Pacific Flyway, as well as side trips to local agricultural centers to see their impact on the local economy and environment.
• Lassen National Park: This is a late summer hike. We will teach about the Cascade mountain range, volcanic activity, and high altitude ecosystems.
• Optional trips: Pacific Ocean and Redwoods in Marin County; McCloud River Watershed and Mount Shasta ecology; Lassen NP Snowshoe Hike
Educational Principles
• Observation: teaching good scientific methods through observing nature and the change it experiences, and evaluating the effects of various conditions on the environment.
• Kinesthetic Learning: allowing students to learn through activity, face challenges and enable further understanding of environmental conditions
• Active Dialogue: students will have the opportunity to explore nature, ask questions and discuss what they are learning with a group leader.
• Positive Role-models: students will be led for the day by leaders who will encourage learning and create an environment that demonstrates the value of each child.
Environmental stewardship is the idea that we are responsible to take care of nature for the benefit of others, including future generations. Wilderness Experience is committed to teaching our youth that they have been entrusted to care for our environment. Our favorite way to teach that lesson is by helping young people experience nature.
Wilderness Experience is staffed by people committed and qualified to teach ecological stewardship, a love for the outdoors and interesting facts about living in northern California.
We hope that we can serve you by providing your youth with an incredible Wilderness Experience!
Wilderness Experience
Environmental Education Program
Experiencing Nature, Teaching Responsibility, and Building Relationships
For more information, please call Jim @ 530-342-7692 or e-mail jim@orchardchurch.com
Wilderness Experience
818 Salem Street
Chico, CA 95928
• Sacramento Valley Trip: Hike in Sacramento Wildlife Refuge learning about local wildlife and the Pacific Flyway, as well as side trips to local agricultural centers to see their impact on the local economy and environment.
• Lassen National Park: This is a late summer hike. We will teach about the Cascade mountain range, volcanic activity, and high altitude ecosystems.
• Optional trips: Pacific Ocean and Redwoods in Marin County; McCloud River Watershed and Mount Shasta ecology; Lassen NP Snowshoe Hike
Educational Principles• Observation: teaching good scientific methods through observing nature and the change it experiences, and evaluating the effects of various conditions on the environment.
• Kinesthetic Learning: allowing students to learn through activity, face challenges and enable further understanding of environmental conditions
• Active Dialogue: students will have the opportunity to explore nature, ask questions and discuss what they are learning with a group leader.
• Positive Role-models: students will be led for the day by leaders who will encourage learning and create an environment that demonstrates the value of each child.
Environmental stewardship is the idea that we are responsible to take care of nature for the benefit of others, including future generations. Wilderness Experience is committed to teaching our youth that they have been entrusted to care for our environment. Our favorite way to teach that lesson is by helping young people experience nature.
Wilderness Experience is staffed by people committed and qualified to teach ecological stewardship, a love for the outdoors and interesting facts about living in northern California.
We hope that we can serve you by providing your youth with an incredible Wilderness Experience!
Wilderness Experience
Environmental Education Program
Experiencing Nature, Teaching Responsibility, and Building Relationships
For more information, please call Jim @ 530-342-7692 or e-mail jim@orchardchurch.com
Wilderness Experience
818 Salem Street
Chico, CA 95928
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