PaddleFoot canoe trips for school groups

Amazing skies can be seen during the many spectacular sunsets encountered on PaddleFoot education trips.

Experiential Education Programs

Class Canoe Trip 2 - 5 Day Programs
PaddleFoot canoe canoe trips for school groups are rich in excitement and challenge. We recognize the importance of providing a nurturing environment where students are at ease with themselves, and thus able to learn new group and leadership skills. Our program offers a unique opportunity for students to work together toward a common goal, and achieve a sense of accomplishment as a group, in a relatively short time. Most students are equally unfamiliar with this experience so canoe camping is a great arena for creating tight bonds and friendships in a noncompetitive environment. Our philosophy stresses the importance of group cooperation, and creating space for the individual. This is consistently demonstrated in the solid working relationships students develop on these confidence-building adventures PaddleFoot school canoe trips are three to eight days in length. Large classes are placed into smaller groups of seven to twelve for mobility, and to facilitate activities. On special request, some trips have run with as many as twenty-four students in a group. Each group has its own equipment and supplies. Every day begins with a warm breakfast prepared over an open fire, followed by site takedown and learning no-trace wilderness practices. After a few hours on the water, students take the time to stretch their legs, and work off a little physical or creative energy with a morning activity. Following lunch, our group heads out for the afternoon paddle. The day quickly passes as we skirt under majestic cliffs guarding deep, azure lakes. We'll head for the pine campsite, dinner, and our evening activity. Two groups may share a campsite, and participate in evening programming together. To conclude the journey, the entire class shares in a campfire celebration, before heading back to the city.
PROGRAM OBJECTIVES AND SCHEDULES ARE DEVELOPED BEFOREHAND IN CONJUNCTION WITH SCHOOL FACULTY MEMBERS TO CATER TO EACH SCHOOLS CURRICULUM.	A WIDE VARIETY OF EXPERIENTIAL EDUCATION PROGRAMS COMPLEMENT ELEMENTARY AND SECONDARY SCHOOL ENGLISH, ART, PHYS-ED, GEOGRAPHY, SCIENCE, AND BIOLOGY PROGRAMS.	THE PaddleFoot PROGRAM DRAWS TOGETHER CLASSROOM CURRICULUM AND THE EXPERIENCE OF THE REAL WORLD. A WIDE VARIETY OF MULTIDISCIPLINARY ACTIVITIES FACILITATES PARTICIPATION.	KNOWLEDGEABLE FACILITATORS GUIDE STUDENTS THROUGH THE PROCESS LEADING TO RESPECTFUL AND OPEN COMMUNICATION WITH EACH OTHER, WITH THEMSELVES, AND WITH THE EARTH

Secondary School Programs
Objectives
Demonstrate the interdependence of systems within systems To challenge students to work together and learn the importance of communication, respect, & community. To give students the responsibility for their immediate impact on the environment. To help propel students towards a sustainable environmental ethic. To build bridges between what is learned in the classroom and what goes on in the natural world.
Activities
Journals Interpretative Hikes Initiative tasks Night Sit Micro Environment Discovery Campfires Ropes Course Activities Survival Skills Music Canoeing		Story Telling Deep Woods Sauna Food chain dynamics Wild Edibles Group Building Games Conduct experiments water & soil tests dissection/taxidermy animal tracks & scat

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