I grew up on a farm in Cornwell, Conn. and after majoring in environmental science in college, I spent several years leading high school
students on expeditions into the woods to teach them about the environment.
For several years, Rhett Herman, a physics professor at Radford University, has been leading
students on an expedition each spring break to study the condition of the sea ice off the coast near Barrow, Alaska.
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In five minutes, with no programming knowledge, you can make your own kid - friendly
expeditions for
students that they can access
on their smartphones or tablets.
As a result of this involvement, Geoff Green and Angela Holmes, founders of
Students on Ice, an organization that runs polar learning
expeditions for teenagers, invited me to become a member of the education team.
The
Students on Ice Foundation is pleased to offer five fully funded positions for secondary level science teachers from across Canada to join the
Students on Ice 2018 Arctic
Expedition.
Take a Learning
Expedition: Expeditionary Learning schools take
students on authentic learning
expeditions, often in neighborhoods close to home.
The Google
Expedition Pioneer Program is taking teachers and
students on fantastic voyages.
Today we find many schools adopting the Google
Expeditions Kit to take
students on field trips across the world and sometimes even across time zones.
In this #GoogleExpeditions lesson, the
students go
on an
expedition to Mexico and learn about the Day of the Dead.
In this lesson,
students go
on an
expedition to 5 Pointz, a former graffiti mural space in Queens, New York.
Although the subjects vary considerably from one grade to the next (from the life cycle of frogs to the role of change makers in society to the study of the causes and consequences of war), every
expedition shares some common characteristics: an emphasis
on student - led inquiry, connections to the community (through interactions with local experts and service - learning projects, for example), and an integrated curriculum with a strong emphasis
on the visual and performing arts.
Dave and Amy Freeman have been going
on expeditions together for many years, and through their company Wilderness Classroom, they bring tens of thousands of
students along with them, virtually.
Bohunt is a course provider for Mountain Training UK and
students across their seven schools have in recent years gone
on expeditions to Mongolia, Kazakhstan, Greenland and the Himalayas, with ones planned next year and in 2019 to Norway, Azerbaijan, Mongolia, Greenland, the Himalayas and Sri Lanka.
«At Bohunt we really invest in these opportunities, providing bursaries for our poorer
students so that they can still go
on the trips and
expeditions, because they provide so much benefit for young people.
Ask some of the following questions as
students study the list of items Lewis and Clark took along
on their
expedition:
Then arrange
students into small groups and give each group five minutes to come up with a list of things they think Lewis and Clark might have gathered to take with them
on the
expedition.
In this cooperative activity,
students learn about preparations made before Lewis and Clark set off
on their
expedition.
Despite these compelling benefits finances can still stand in the way; often for those
students who would benefit most; 70 per cent of people in our survey believe that cost is the main factor which stops
students going
on outdoor / overseas
expeditions and trips.
At Normal Park,
students embark
on learning
expeditions as opposed to field trips.
The range of activities and adventures the 40
students undertook was in itself amazing and included a week long Duke of Edinburgh snow - shoeing
expedition, sea - kayaking amongst the fjords, avalanche awareness training
on a self - supported week long winter trek, and a SES - funded community camp for 200 local children.
From the comfort of their classrooms,
students can interact live with polar educators and the British science
expedition team working
on ocean plastics and ocean acidification in the Arctic.
We now have over 30
students going
on a multi-adventure
expedition to Norway in the summer, over 100
students doing Duke of Edinburgh (including every one of our most vulnerable
students), we've won grants to create a Bushcraft Area within the school and the school has started a Combined Cadet Force.
As a research - based reading intervention solution, the program focuses
on engaging and motivating
students with age - appropriate instruction and content that includes real - world relevant, captivating
Expedition themes and technology components that support and enhance instruction.
With a focus
on accelerated academics, habits of success, excellence in enrichment and
expeditions, and an awesomely powerful community, the Greenfield model includes increased ownership and personalized learning for
students.
Students spend at least two weeks each year outside the school walls
on an
expedition.
And
on Fridays,
students have
Expeditions, where they are provided with authentic learning experiences in project - based, elective courses.
Summit's Next Generation school model is designed to ensure that every
student is prepared for success in college and career by focusing
on four elements of college readiness: Content Knowledge, Cognitive Skills, Habits of Success, and
Expeditions.
Chen and Armstrong (2002) described a myriad of project - based learning activities in which teachers used technologies to engage
students as scientists in collecting data
on stars for NASA, as explorers in wide - ranging
expeditions around the world, as writers publishing poems or even literary magazines, and in a range of other innovative roles engaging in relevant projects.
One organization,
Students on Ice
Expeditions, combines traveling to Antarctica with educational sessions.
During the
expedition the
students followed science and art workshops,
on which Doriana based her science project comparing scientific knowledge to Inuit knowledge.
The tablets also will enable
students to jump into educational AR experiences given their handheld form factor and Google's upcoming rollout of the
Expeditions AR platform
on the devices, which the company promises will allow
students to visit the Great Barrier Reef, the Colosseum and International Space Station.
Last but not least, Google says that over 500,000
students have gone
on Expeditions since the program's launch at Google I / O 2015.