REGULAR GUIDEBOOK LINKS (Growing/Advanced Guidebook)
Lesson 3 –
Cool Teacher Moment: Tipi – video #1
Cool Teacher Moment: Tipi – video #2 (this one has a fire inside!)
Lesson 4 –
Putting up a tent
Lesson 5 –
Activity – Soup can
Lesson 6 –
Cool Teacher Moment – Flash flooding
Optional Activity List (supplies list follows)
LESSON 1 –
PRE-READER – Sensory bin
Activity Option 1 (Growing/Advanced) – Make your choice!
Activity Option 1 (Growing/Advanced) – The New World Around You (Trees!)
Activity Option 3 (Growing/Advanced) – Picture Study
LESSON 2 –
PRE-READER – Coffee filter leaves & Leaf Painting, Shark Clothespins, Lake in a Jar,
Activity Option 1 (Growing/Advanced) [FOREST] – Tree & Leaf Study
Activity Option 2 (Growing/Advanced) [SNOW/ICE]– “Ice Fishing” (salt and ice and scientific fun)
Activity Option 3 (Growing/Advanced) [LAKE] – Bird’s eye lake analysis
Activity Option 4 (Growing/Advanced) [BEACH] – Marine Life Time!
Activity Option 5 (Growing/Advanced) [BACKYARD/INDOOR] – Tent time!
Activity Option 6 (Growing/Advanced) [MILITARY] – Picture Study, Camouflage yourself!
Activity Option 6 (Growing/Advanced) [MINIMALIST] – One Utensil Challenge, Make your List
LESSON 3 –
PRE-READER – Cardboard Tents
Activity Option 1 (Growing/Advanced) – Packing the right way!
Activity Option 2 (Growing/Advanced) – Learn Your Own Water Filtration!
Activity Option 3 (Growing/Advanced) – Choose or change your final destination!
LESSON 4 –
PRE-READER – Travel Maze, Tissue Paper Campfire
Activity Option 1 (Growing/Advanced) – Clearing your Site!
Activity Option 2 (Growing/Advanced) – Ring around the Fire
Activity Option 3 (Growing/Advanced) – Fire formations
LESSON 5 –
PRE-READER – S’mores and Activity Pages
Cool Teacher Moment (Growing/Advanced) – Astronomy app and Star Wheel
Activity Option 1 (Growing/Advanced) – Soup Can Stove
Activity Option 2 (Growing/Advanced) – Food Storage Challenge
Activity Option 3 (Growing/Advanced) – Quiet Time
Activity Option 4 (Growing/Advanced) – Recipes
LESSON 6 –
PRE-READER – Find the Rain Puddle, Bear Mask
Cool Teacher Moment (Growing/Advanced) – Wind & Water & Hypothermia
Activity Option 1 (Growing/Advanced) – Trench Test
Activity Option 2 (Growing/Advanced) – Build your tent wind test
SYW Activity (Growing/Advanced) – Mark your Trail
SYW Activity (Growing/Advanced) – Learning navigation!
SYW Activity (Growing/Advanced) – Injury Check!
SYW Activity (Growing/Advanced) – Splinting
BONUS LESSON
Activity Option 1 (Growing/Advanced) – Time Blocks
Activity Option 2 (Growing/Advanced) – Checklists
Book List
This is here as a courtesy only. No books are required for the unit. Some of these books contain factual errors.
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Supplies List
This list includes anything that you wouldn’t usually find around your home.
LESSON 1 –
PRE-READER – Items from around the yard, optional: blue marbles, plastic insects, etc.
Growing/Advanced – Nothing extra needed
LESSON 2 –
PRE-READER –
[FOREST OPTION] – Colored markers or paint
[BEACH / LAKE OPTION] – Clothespins OR green yarn, aluminum foil, small plastic toys
Growing/Advanced Activity Options –
[FOREST OPTION] – Nothing extra
[SNOW OPTION] – String, salt
[LAKE OPTION] – Nothing extra
[INDOOR OPTION] – Nothing extra
[MILITARY OPTION] – Nothing extra
[MINIMALIST OPTION] – Nothing extra
LESSON 3 –
PRE-READER – Cardboard boxes (optional), painter’s tape (optional), paint (optional)
Growing/Advanced Activity Option 1 – Backpack or alternative
Growing/Advanced Activity Option 2 – Backpack or alternative
Growing/Advanced Activity Option 3 – 2-liter bottle, cotton or coffee filters, charcoal, items from outside
LESSON 4 –
PRE-READER – Tissue paper, battery operated candles
Growing/Advanced Activity Option 1 – Nothing extra
Growing/Advanced Activity Option 2 – Nothing extra
Growing/Advanced Activity Option 3 – Nothing extra
LESSON 5 –
PRE-READER – Cotton balls, small cardbaord pieces
Growing/Advanced Activity Option 1 – Tin can, something for fuel
Growing/Advanced Activity Option 2 – Nothing extra
Growing/Advanced Activity Option 3 – Nothing extra
Growing/Advanced Activity Option 4 – See Recipes
LESSON 6 –
PRE-READER – Wax paper and spray bottle OR paper plate and string
Growing/Advanced Activity Options – Items around home
BOOK LIST
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