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Wild Ones Nature Exploration Homeschool Course- Spring 2017
April 6, 2017 @ 10:00 am - 2:00 pm
For full details and registration please visit the website
http://www.charmcityfarms.org/wild-ones-nature-exploration-homeschool-course/
An All-Outdoors Nature Immersion Program for Kids 8-13
Program meets for 8 weeks on Thursdays from 10am-2pm
April 6, 13 & 27 May 4, 11, 18 & 25 June 1
Program Fee: $210 per student
Open to ages 8-13
Location: Baltimore County & Baltimore City
A 8-week immersion into local forests, streams, plants, insects, & wildlife, for the young nature observer and adventurer. In a group of their peers, participants will be able to direct their own learning and take inspiration from the many forms of nature we see, smell, taste, & touch, and perhaps begin to know the woods not as other, but as home.
Each class is 4 hours. Students should bring a lunch, as well as some personal products (ie, hand sanitizer, toilet paper, first aid kit)
Instructor facilitated learning along the way may include:
Competitive and Cooperative games
Primitive Technology
Animal Observation
Tree and Plant Identification
Plant Medicine
Responsible Firecraft
Observation Exercises
Fishing
Mucking
Tree Climbing
Sensory Exercises
Woodland Navigation
Native Cultures
Negotiating Obstacles
Self Defense
Craft Projects with Natural Material
Habitat and Ecosystem Interpretation
Sit Spot Exercises
Nature Journaling
Indigenous Cultivation
Camouflage and Concealment
Tracking
Stalking
Instructor: Mangy White Bushman
For full details and registration please visit the website
http://www.charmcityfarms.org/wild-ones-nature-exploration-homeschool-course/
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