The Best School Camp EVER!

 Primary Middle  Secondary

Australian Curriculum General Capability: Critical and creative thinking

Australian Curriculum General Capability: Personal and social capability

Australian Curriculum General Capability: Numeracy

 

(Source: Woodhouse: School Camp)

1. You have been on several school camps. With four other students, you are to work out which is the best camp and why!

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Brainstorm about school camps individually. Make a list of the good points and also the not so good points of each camp you have been on.

3. Gather all the answers from each student taking it in turns to say the good things about the camps.

Add to the list by suggesting other things that you might have experienced with your family or friends that would come under outdoor adventures. For example, you might be part of the Scouting Movement and experienced one of their camps or Jubilees.

 

4. Now create the best Outdoor Adventure experience for students in either

a. Year 5

b. Year 7

c. Year 9

d. Year 11

 

You have 3 days for this one camp. Make up a schedule and have 3 rotating activities for each session. There should be 3 sessions per day.

5. The food on camp can make or break students liking the camp or not.

As a group, you are to make up the menu for the three days remembering that on the first day, students have breakfast at home and are required to bring lunch. On the leaving third day, breakfast is provided and a packed lunch. Don't forget to provide fruit and snacks especially if the students have completed a physically hard session.

Work out the menu requirements for 100 students and do a cost estimate for each meal [work it out from your family's food cost and collate amongst the group].

6. Compare with one other group!

 

 

 

 

 

 

Adventure, Risk, Uncertainty, Consequence: A Community of Inquiry

 

Middle Secondary

Australian Curriculum General Capability: Critical and creative thinking

Philosophy

Cooperative Learning Activity

 

 

1. In groups of 4 - 5 students, read the following article from The Conversation 18 February 2020

 

 

 

2. Define "Adventure" using the article as a guide.

 

3. In groups of 4 - 5 students, debate the statement: "Modern life in the Western world requires many to take certain risks in order to feel alive". Do you think this is correct? Why? Why not? Provide reasons.

4. Conduct a Community of Inquiry using the article from The Conversation as the stimulus material.