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Outdoor Technology

OUTDOOR TECHNOLOGY

Outdoor Technology is designed for students who want to spend time outside exploring, helping the community, and developing leadership skills.  The field-based curriculum emphasizes hands-on learning with multiple outdoor lessons and activities each week.  Outdoor Technology focuses on ecological stewardship, holistic problem-solving, and effective communication.  Students develop complex understandings of natural communities and ecosystems, sustainable forestry, and regenerative agriculture through experiential projects, service learning and career exploration.

This half-day course is designed to immerse 9th and 10th grade students in an outdoor-based leadership curriculum that creatively explores high-skill, high-wage, and high-demand careers and supports the development of a student’s Personalized Learning Plan.

This interdisciplinary course combines the fields environmental science, technology, engineering, arts and math through community service, outdoor education and leadership training experiences. Some focus areas include effective leadership and communication, local and regional ecosystem exploration, Native American studies, wildlife tracking, forest ecology, water ecology, the history of state and federal conservation, gleaning, sustainable agriculture and local career exploration.

The course is designed to support the Whole School, Whole Community, Whole Child (WSCC) model, where it meets “the call for greater alignment, integration, and collaboration between education and health to improve each child’s cognitive, physical, social, and emotional development.”

Outdoor Technology
This class is an option for students in grades 9 and 10.

PERSONNEL:

Andrew Moore
Instructor | Outdoor Technology
amoore@maplerun.org
(802) 752-1055

Christian Adamczak
Lab Supervisor | Outdoor Technology
ciadamczak@maplerun.org
(802) 752-1055

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